Keeping Current with Research: Database Search Alerts

Search Alert - Notification of new articles matching a search query

Most Library-subscribed article databases provide Search Alert so that search queries can be saved and re-run automatically on a regular basis. When you set up a search alert in a database, the database automatically runs your search and sends you any search results added since the last time the search was run. You can set searches to run once a day, once a week, or less often.

To set up a database search alert:

See Creating Search and Journal Alerts (below) for instructions on setting up alerts in commonly used UI databases.

Here is a short list of databases with alert services available:

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