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Keep Current in Your Field  

Learn how to create search and journal alerts and use RSS feeds to track newly published literature on your topic or subject.
Last Updated: Sep 21, 2011 URL: http://libguides.tacoma.washington.edu/keeping-current Print Guide

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What are Alerts?

Alerts are personal notifications you save online for particular journal titles or database searches.  An alert will regularly run a search for new content - saving you time and delivering content in one location. 

After setting up an alert, you will be notified of the new articles matching your search queries via E-mail or RSS.

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Email Alerts automatically receive updates via email.

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RSS Feeds maintain alerts in a central location.

Guide Contents

  • Database Search Alerts: save search queries in databases that can be re-run automatically
  • Journal TOC Alerts: receive tables of contents from journals when new issues are published.
  • Citation Alerts: receive citation data about articles published in various indexes.
  • RSS: get regularly updated content (e.g. news headlines, blog entries, citations, table of contents) delivered in one place
 

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