The Library subscribes to several databases that allow you to set up automatic e-mail alerts that inform you when new writings on your research topic or publications by certain authors have been published. Some also offer Table of Contents (TOC) notifications, forwarding content information for newly published issues of selected journals.

Databases Offering E-Mail Alert/TOC Services

Click on titles below for database descriptions and instructions on setting up your alert service.

Related Link of Interest: E-Mail Alerting Services of Major Publishers/Vendors.

ABC-CLIO Databases

America: History and Life Index to over 2,000 journals covering the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes book and media reviews and dissertations

Historical Abstracts  Index to over 2000 journals covering world history from 1450 - present. Includes book and media reviews and dissertations. Excludes U.S. and Canadian history.

How to Set Up An Alert in ABC-CLIO Databases:

• Click on the CLIO Alert Profile link in either database.
• Click on the Create a New Profile Link, select a username and click on the Create Profile button.
• Enter your details on the page displayed and add your search terms to the boxes provided; select your preferred output format and choose the database/s you want your alert to run in.
• Click on the Save Profile link to create you alert.

ACM Digital Library

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery). Provides access to bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full text articles published in ACM journals, transactions and conference proceedings since the founding of ACM in 1947, together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.

How to Set Up A TOC Alert in ACM Digital Library:

• Click on Login Required and register
• After submitting your registration information, you'll receive an e-mail on how to activate your registration; follow-instructions
• Go back to ACM page and login
• Choose TOC Service
• Choose journals. You'll be notified when new issues of those journals are published.

American Chemical Society Journals (ACS)

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals  Full text access to all ACS journals. Look for the tab that says "Search the journals" or browse by journal.

How to Set Up An ASAP Alert or TOC Alert in ACS:

• ASAP Alerts features announcements of newly available A.S.A.P (As Soon As Publishable) articles from each of ACS' electronic journals.  Users can sign up to receive e-mail notices on a weekly basis or on the same day the articles are posted. The message contains the title, author, journal name, official Web publication date, and direct URL link to the full article on the Web.  Thus users can have access to articles published two weeks to three months before the print version appears.
• To sign up for ASAP Alerts:
  Access ACS Journals & Magazines Click on the Sign Up for Email Alerts button. Then click on Register for ASAP Alerts and follow instructions.
• Users can also sign up for Table of Contents Alerts on the ACS Journals & Magazines page; e-mail alerts of the Table of Contents (TOC) for specific issues on the day the complete issue is posted on the Web, enabling you to scan the issue's entire contents at once.

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journals

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journals  Full text journal article access to all the journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

How to Set Up TOC alerts in ASCE Journals:

• Click on Sign Up for ASCE's New Publications Alert
• Register

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  The Annals series (approximately 30 volumes per year) provides multi-disciplinary perspectives on research in fields of current scientific interest.

How to Set Up TOC alerts in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:

• Click on Email alerts
• Sign up

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CAS) Databases

Animal Behavior Abstracts An index to the scientific literature on the study of animal behavior, including such subject areas as aggression, behavioral ecology, communication, learning, dominance, genetics of behavior, foraging, memory, neurophysiology, parental-filial and reproductive behavior.

Criminal Justice Abstracts Citations and summaries of U.S. & international journal articles, books, dissertations, papers, government and other reports from 1968 on many criminal justice topics.

LLBA  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts contains citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, book reviews (with links to full-text where possible).

PAIS International  Index to public policy, social policy, and social science documents from journals, books, government publications, and other resources.

PsycINFO The leading research-oriented journal indexing service created by the American Psychological Association (APA).

How to Set Up An Alert in CAS Databases:

• Conduct the search for which you'd like to set up an alert.
• Click the Search/Alert button.
• For the strategy you wish to save, click Save as Alert .
• You will be prompted to enter an email address and personal password.
• Click Save Alert to complete the process.

Commerce Clearinghouse: CCH Tax Research Network

CCH Tax Research Network Full text federal and state tax information including cases, regulations, and rulings.

Users can receive updated tax news headlines from CCH. Because the Library connects to the CCH service through IP addresses, users can't sign up for this service on the database page. Follow the directions below instead.

How to Receive Tax Headlines from CCH:

• Go to http://tax.cchgroup.com
• Click on Sign Up for CCH Tax News Headlines
• Register

Dekker Journals

Dekker Journals A group of full text journals available electronically from the publisher Marcel Dekker, covering the scientific, technical and medical fields. Dekker online journals are now part of the Taylor & Francis database. To find a list of the journals previously published by Dekker and part of the Auraria Library collection search Skyline.

How to Set Up TOC alerts in Dekker:

• Click on Log in/Register.
• Make your subject/TOC choices in the registration process.

EBSCO Databases

• Academic Search Premier Multi-subject database covering thousands of journals; most full-text. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Agricola Citations to journal articles, books, technical reports, etc. covering all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Many links to databases that will show the complete article. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Art Abstracts Art Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. It also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Biological Abstracts (aka BIOSIS) A complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Business Source Premier Access to thousands of business publication; most full-text. How to Set Up An Alert.
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Index to professional literature in nursing and allied health fields. How to Set Up an Alert.
• Communication and Mass Media Complete. CMMC indexes more than 400 communicatio/mass-media related journals with full text online available for about half of the journals. Many of the journals in CMMC have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present, dating as far back as 1915. How to Set Up an Alert.
• ERIC. Citations and abstracts to journals and reports in education and many related fields as well as non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Fuente Academica.  Provides access to articles from Spanish-language academic journals from well-known and respected publishers worldwide. Provides full-text coverage for over 150 journals covering many academic discipline. How to Set Up An Alert.
• GeoRef Citations for U.S. and international journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, theses, and maps in Geology and the Earth Sciences. How to Set Up An Alert.
• GLBT Life. GLBT Life indexes literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues. Comprehensive coverage includes traditional academic, lifestyle, and regional publications, as well as non-periodical content such as non-fiction books, bibliographies and dissertations. Disciplines include athletics, health, law, sociology, family, religion, civil liberties, employment and entertainment. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition Covers the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Library Literature. Indexes articles and book reviews from key library and information science periodicals. Updates monthly. How to Set Up An Alert.
• LISTA. LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings in online information retrieval, information management, librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, etc. Note:  Unrestricted access.  How to Set Up An Alert.
• MAS Ultra -School Edition Useful for high school and community college level research, this database provides full text for over 500 general interest publications, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. How to Set Up An Alert.
• MedicLatina  MedicLatina is a Spanish-language collection of medical research published by well-known Latin American medical publishers. Provides full text for 125 periodicals, including over 50 peer-reviewed medical journals. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership.
• Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Middle Search Plus also contains 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Newspaper Source Full text for 159 regional U.S. newspapers; 18 international newspapers; newswires from 6 sources including AP Online, Asia Pulse, Canadian Corporate News, Canadian Press Wire, Newsbytes News Service and World Stream Newswires, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, and indexing and abstracts for USA Today, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Primary Search Designed primarily for elementary school students, this database provides full-text for more than 60 popular magazines. Also provides indexing and abstracting for nearly 100 magazines. Also included: full-text for over 100 pamphlets, the third edition of the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, and a large image collection of photographs, maps, and flags. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Professional Development Collection Provides abstracts of articles from 530 periodical titles for professional educators at all levels: elementary, secondary, and post-secondary. Provides searchable full text for nearly 440 journals. How to Set Up An Alert.
• Regional Business News  This database provides full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. How to Set Up An Alert.
• SportDiscus Indexes periodicals, theses, conferences and other writings on sports, leisure, and physical fitness. Updated weekly. How to Set Up An Alert.
• TOPICsearch This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,500 full text periodicals. How to Set Up An Alert.

How to Set Up an Alert in the EBSCO Databases above:

• Choose the Advanced Search mode.
• Conduct the search for which you'd like to set up an alert (it can be a search by subject or journal title.)
• Click on Search History/Alerts tab.
• Click on Save Searches/Alerts
• Click on 'I Am a New User' and register.
• Once registration is confirmed, click on back button.
• Save search as 'Alert' and choose your options, such as indicating how often you'd like

Emerald Full-Text

Emerald Full Text Provides full text access (click on 'Fulltext' icon to search) to over 130 journals in management, human resources, information management, library and information services, marketing, operations management, production management, and training and education. Also includes engineering journals.

How to Set Up An Alert in Emerald Full-Text:

The Emerald Library has a dual feature e-mail alert service:

• Saved Search Alert - after each search from within Emerald you will be giiven the option of adding it to your alert profile. Each time new articles are added  to the database, you will be sent the brief citations of any new articles that  match your search criteria.
• ToC (Table of Contents) Alert - will e-mail you the contents page of any chosen journal whenever the latest issue becomes available online.

To Register:

• Click on Emerald Alert. .
• Click on either Saved Search Alert or ToC (Table of Contents) Alert .
• Follow instructions.

Engineering Village II from Elsevier

Engineering Village  Engineering Village 2 offers resources in the applied science and engineering fields. It provides access to Compendex and INSPEC.

Compendex Online version of Engineering Index.

INSPEC The major database that indexes scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. Includes abstracts. Updated weekly.

How to Set Up An Alert in Engineering Village Databases:

• Register in the Personal Account box.
• Once registered, conduct the search for which you'd like to set up an alert.
• Click on Search History; Put a check-mark in the E-mail Alert Box for the search you'd like to save.
• Done. Continue searching or End Session.

Google

Google Internet search engine. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

How to Set Up A Google Alert:

See instructions on this page: http://www.google.com/alerts

Highwire Press

Highwire Press  A large database of back issues of selected scholarly journals in the sciences and medicine. Many of the articles are full text and freely available, while some require a subscription. eTOC's allow you to receive in e-mail either complete Tables of Contents (from both current and future content) or notification that an issue has just gone online. You can also sign up to receive announcements from journal publishers and, where available, weekly or daily pre-print publication announcements through CiteTrack.

How to Set Up An Alert in Highwire Press:

• Click on My Email Alerts & PDA
• Click on the register for a free account link.
• Complete the form and hit Submit.
• Follow the instructions.

IEEE

IEEE Xplore Provides full text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.

How to Set Up TOC alerts in IEEE:

• Click on email alerting at the bottom of the page.
• Register and choose journal titles.
  

Ingenta

Ingenta Alerts (Formerly UnCover Reveal.) An automated alerting service that delivers both journal table of contents or the results of specified search strategies to your e-mail. Having trouble accessing Ingenta? Contact Cynthia Hashert.

How to Set Up TOC's and Alerts in Ingenta:

• Register
• Once you are registered, each time you use Ingenta you must login with your username and password to activate the 'my ingenta' function needed for the alert/toc service.
• Click on 'manage my ingenta.'
• Follow instructions for 'setting up saved search strategies' and/or 'setting up TOC alerts.'

Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals Full text article access to all Institute of Physics (IOP) journals, with a rolling 10-year full-text electronic backfile.

The standard TOC alerting service enables users to receive the Tables of Contents of your favourite IOP journals as soon as issues are published online. You can also use the enhanced alerting service which allows you to enter more flexible alerting criteria including key words, so that whenever articles matching your criteria are published, you automatically receive alerts containing their details.

How to Set Up TOC's in IOP:

• Click on Alerts in the top frame.
• Click on  Create an Account.
• Complete the Create an Account registration boxes.
• Click on Create Account.
• Click on Alerting in the left hand frame.
• Follow the instructions for setting up alerts.

Kluwer

Kluwer Online Provides indexing, abstracts and full text article access to Kluwer Publishers (now available thru SpringerLink) online journal collection. Includes journals in most subject disciplines.

How to Set Up TOC's in SpringerLink:

• Register or log in on the right side of the page for the table of contents, keyword and favorites alerts service offered by SpringerLink.

Project Muse

Project Muse Provides full text of over 100 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

How to Set Up TOC's in Project Muse:

To receive weekly e-mail notifications of new journal issues or new titles available in Project Muse:

• Click on Information
• Click on Sign Up For Journal Alerts
• Click on Make or Change Selections
• When finished, Click on Save Changes and Exit

PubMed

Medline (PubMed) The free version of Medline with a keyword search engine.

How to save searches on Medline:

The 'MyNCBI' feature on PubMed allows you to create an account in Pubmed to save searches so you can run them in the future. It also allows you to create e-mail alerts so that you're notified of new articles that match your search strategy

• Log in using the MyNCBI box. You must first register (there's no fee) and your browser must accept cookies.
• Once you've registered, completed the sign-in, and run a search, you'll see a new option to the right of the search box, a link that reads 'Save Search'. Click this link, name your search and click OK.

• Follow the same steps above. Note that you can create a search/alert based on an author name, a journal name, or a set of subject-based search terms.
• Once you've created your search, click 'Save Search', then indicate that you'd like to receive e-mail updates based upon this search.
• On the next page, you can customize how frequently you'd like to receive updates, whether you want abstracts, the maximum number of results, etc.

Royal Anthropological Institute

Anthropological Index Online  Index to periodicals owned by the Museum of Mankind Library in Great Britain.

How to Set Up An Alert in the Anthropological Index Online:

• Click on the phrase: Register to receive e-mail notification of updates to AIO.
• Register for the Journal Alerting Service.
• Select journals and keywords.

SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting

Sara: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting SARA delivers e-mail and tables of contents for any issue of Psychology Press, Routledge, or Taylor & Francis journals to anyone who has requested the information. This service is completely free of charge and you can choose to receive alerts by keyword, title, sub-category or main category. Please note that if you sign up for a main category e.g. Education, you'll receive a high volume of alerts.

ScienceDirect from Elsevier

ScienceDirect Provides indexing, abstracts and full text article access to the Elsevier Science journal collection online. Auraria Library's subscription includes access to all the journals held by the CU-system libraries, approximately 900 titles. The collection includes journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, social sciences, and a few in the fine arts and humanities. The database's Alert features include Create Search Alerts, Volume/IssueAlerts and Citation Alerts.

How to Set Up Alerts in ScienceDirect:

• Click on the button My Alerts in the top frame.
• Complete the Registration boxes.
• After logging in, follow the instructions for setting up:
  1. Search Alerts
  2. Volume/Issue Alerts
  3. Citation Alerts

Silver Platter Databases

Philosopher's Index  Indexing and abstracting for books and journals in philosophy. Fields covered include aesthetics, political philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social philosophy, and logic. Students, faculty, and staff on the Auraria Campus may set up an alert service in the Philosophier's Index.

Contact http://library.auraria.edu/aboutus/whatwedo/Ellen.Metter@cudenver.edu to get registered.

Web of Science

Web of Science   A multidisciplinary database that provides access to Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Over 7000 scholarly journals are indexed.

Two types of alerts are available in Web of Science.

• Citation alerts - You receive an E-mail alert each time an article on the list is cited in a new article.
• Saved Search Histories -You receive an E-mail alert when new articles on a subject of interest are added to the database.

How to Set Up A Citation Alert in Web of Science:

• Register with your email address and a password.
• Perform a search in Science Citation Index, SocialScience Citation Index (or both).
• When viewing a Full Record (click on hyperlinked title to see Full Record), click the 'create citation alert' button on the right side of the page..

How to Set Up A Saved Search Alert in Web of Science:

• Register with your email address and a password.
• Perform your search as usual.
• Click on the 'Advanced Search' icon.
• Click on the 'Save History' button.
• Enter a name and description for your search.
• Check the Send Me Email Alerts box.
• Select an Alert Type, Email Format and Frequency.
• Click on Save and then Done.

Wiley Interscience

Wiley Interscience Provides indexing and full-text to journals in the areas of business, science, engineering, education, law, medical sciences, mathematics and statistics, and psychology.

How to Set Up An Alert in Wiley:

• Register in the upper right hand corner for the My Profile features
• Set your Alert Preferences for: Saved Titles Alerts
  Automatically sends you the table of contents of the latest issue of your saved journal once it has been published, and/or Saved Search Alerts
  Automatically notifies you when an article matching your saved search has been published with direct links through to the new search results.

WilsonWeb Databases

Biographies Plus Illustrated. Full text biographical articles on Nobel Prize winners, authors, artists, politicians, world leaders, film directors, American reformers, musicians and composers from the ancient world to the present.

Book Review Digest Plus.   Reviews of books, journals and magazines includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and text of book reviews from eleven other technical and science databases from Wilson.

Education Full Text. Leading publications in the field of education (over 200 journals). Updates monthly. Formerly known as Education Abstracts Full Text and as Education Index.

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text.  LLIS indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.

Readers' Guide Retrospective.   Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers the years1890 through 1982.

How to Set Up Alerts in WilsonWeb Databases:

• After searching, click on the blue Search History button.
• Check the box next to the desired search, and then click on the blue
  Alert box that appears next to that checked search string.
• A window opens for the user to enter email address, schedule choice (daily,
  weekly or monthly) and the stop date (1, 2, 3, 6 or 12 months).