Research Guides: New Journal and Book Alerts (Notifications): Introduction

Overview

Alerts and notifications are forms of information that are pushed to you, based on your academic or scholarly interests, typically to your email inbox or social media news feeds. Alerts can be related to journal content, article database searches, new blog entries, and websites. A "subscription" or personal account is required to receive most alerting services.

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 (updated on a daily basis but will still lag behind the "online first" publication of some journal websites) Journal TOCs (based in the UK) provides a free, searchable collection of the "latest or most current papers published in the scholarly literature with international coverage."
New citations on selected topics	Alerts from your favorite disciplinary database (some examples are listed in this guide)
To be alerted when a specific item is cited	Web of Science cited reference alerts Google Scholar alerts
To be alerted when a specific author is cited	Scopus for an author citation alert

Last Updated: Apr 28, 2025 1:50 PM

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