Downtown Library/LRC

Needing to find journal articles on your topic but prefer not to have to start your search from scratch everytime you log on a computer? Proquest has debuted Search Alert which will send article results to your email when new documents matching your search are added to their database. You can select notices either daily, monthly, weekly or every three months. You can stop notices anytime between 2 weeks and 1 year. Set Up Alert feature is located on the hit results page next to the yellow envelope icon.

Ebscohost has introduced its own version of article alert without clogging up your email inbox. Ebscohost introduced an Create Alert for this Search which sends article alerts to your RSS Reader/aggregate (i.e. GoogleReader, Bloglines, etc). I conducted a search on food irradiation and at the top of the search results, there is an orange tab. By clicking on it, you can create a feed link which can be dropped into your RSS Reader/aggregator. Unlike Proquest's choices of options, Ebscohost will only allow daily notices for up to 2 months. Nonetheless this is a great tool for receiving updated journal articles on your subject to compile bibliographies, news alerts, book reviews etc.

Labels: bibliographic tools, Ebscohost, journal articles, ProQuest, RSS aggregator