Your area of research is always updating with new knowledge.
Setting up alerts allows you to:
stay up-to-date with the latest publications in your research area
be notified when your own publications are indexed in a database or cited
save time by not needing to repeat common searches
find new research data, across multiple databases and platforms.
Search alerts
Most databases allow email-based alerts on saved searches. You'll need to create accounts for Scopus, Web of Science and UOW Library SEARCH to receive alerts.
If you set up a journal alert in an EBSCO database, you'll automatically receive an email notification whenever a new issue of a particular journal becomes available in that database.
1. Login to Web of Science.
2. Select Journal Alerts from the Searches and alerts drop-down menu.
3. Follow the prompts to add journals to your list to receive email alerts of the latest Table of Contents for your selected journals.
The largest free collection of scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs). You can use Journal TOCs to search, browse and follow journals. Click on Help to find out how.
Citation alerts
Set up an alert to be notified by email when your publication is cited.
1. Login to Web of Science.
2. Select Citation Alerts from the drop-down menu.
3. Follow the prompts to add articles to your list to receive an email each time the article is cited.
1. Search for the title of your paper.
2. Click on the "cited by" link at the bottom of the search result.
3. Click on the "create alert" envelope icon in the left sidebar of the search results page.
4. Follow the prompts to set up a citation alert for your article.
RSS feeds​
RSS feeds allow you to harvest updates from multiple web sources and display them in a single location.
