Introduction - Keeping Alert - Tracking New Articles and Books in your field - Research Guides at University of Michigan Library

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Overview

This guide will provide instruction on tools for keeping up with new articles and books in your field. Stay alert by subscribing to email alerts and RSS feeds for:

Items matching your subject search criteria
Tables of contents for journals of interest
Items that cite a specific work or author
New books that the library has acquired
Websites, news stories, or blog entries that match your search criteria

Another Useful Guide

Alert Services: A How-to Guide
(Iowa State University Library)

An excellent guide with a long list of publishers offering alerts

Choosing the Best Source for your Alerts

If you want...	Sign up for this kind of alert
Journal tables of contents as soon as they come out	Alerts from the publisher's website for that journal. Current Contents Connect from Web of Science (updated on a daily basis but will still lag behind the "online first" publication of some journal websites)
New items matching a complex subject search	Alerts from your favorite disciplinary database Use the guide menu (to the left) for directions on how to set up alerts from disciplinary databases on the ProQuest and EBSCO platforms, Web of Science, and Google Scholar
To be alerted when a specific item is cited	Web of Science cited reference alerts Google Scholar alerts

Most alerts will be available as in email format; some will also provide an RSS feed option. Experiment with any combination of these and decide which works best for you.