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New research literature alerts , Ngā pāoho mō ngā mātātuhi hou

Set up alerts for new publications in your field of research. Find out how to set up alerts for saved searches, tables of contents, cited articles, and authors.

Set up alerts to keep up to date with new and in-press publications in your field of research. Before setting up alerts, it’s a good idea to have spent time on:

  • your search strategy
  • a thorough literature review.

You can set up several different kinds of alerts.

  • Saved Search alerts save your search strategy and set it to run regularly – alerting you to any new publications that match your search terms.
  • Table of Contents (TOC) alerts track new articles in key journals – alerting you to new articles before the entire issue is published.
  • Cited Articles alerts track when a key article is getting new citations – alerting you to different analysis or use of an existing article.
  • Author alerts let you know when an author you are interested in writes a new article – alerting you to any new publications.

How to set up and receive alerts

Alerts are usually by email or RSS feed. Choose how you receive them, and how often. You can change this later if you need to.

You usually need to be signed in to each database to set up alerts. Discover and EBSCO databases use your Massey login. Other databases may need you to create an account, which is personal to you and not related to your Massey login.

Each database provider handles alerts differently. Visit their help pages to see what’s available and how to set them up.

These article databases support alerts well:

Most journal publishers’ websites allow you to set up TOC alerts for specific journals by letting them know your email address, although you may need to register with the publisher as well.

JournalTOCs is a free service that provides TOCs for over 30,000 journals across a broad range of disciplines and publishers.

Visit JournalTOCs to find TOCs for journals you’re interested in.

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