• Table of Contents Alert Services
• Database Alert Services and Saved Search Strategies
• News Sites
• RSS Feeds

Please send any comments concerning this page to Peggy Sleeth.
See also "Keep Current: Database Alerting Services."

Table of Contents Alert Services

• Individual Journal Titles
  To set up alerts for your favorite journal, go to the online edition and follow the directions provided under headings such as "alerts" or "e-mail table of contents." You can find e-journals by looking up the title in the Library Catalog or lists such as Biomedical Libraries E-Journals or Digital Library at Dartmouth Electronic Journals. You may be able to set up table of contents alerting even for e-journals not available at Dartmouth by going to the publisher's site; ask library staff for assistance.
• Ingenta Table of Contents Alerts
  Ingenta is a table of contents service covering 30,000 journals in multiple disciplines. Ingenta can also alert you to new articles on topics of interest to you. The Dartmouth College Library's site license allows affiliated individuals at the College and DHMC to register and set up profiles.
• PubMed's MyNCBI
  PubMed's MyNCBI feature can be used to set up e-mail alerts for articles in your favorite journals indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE. See a 4-minute demonstration video. When setting up the alert, BlitzMail users should remember to select "text" not "html". The e-mail alert received will contain a URL that links to PubMed search results. Be sure to sign into MyNCBI at the PubMed screen so that you see Dartmouth Full-Text links.

Database Alert Services and Saved SearchStrategies

• PubMed
  Register for "My NCBI" - links are in the upper right corner of PubMed and in the blue column at the left. "My NCBI" saves searches and features an option to automatically update and email search results. See PubMed's Help for more information.
• Ovid Auto Alerts
  With Ovid AutoAlerts it is possible to save a search strategy that will be run automatically each time a database is updated. When the search strategy is run, a message containing the resulting citations is automatically sent to you via e-mail. See Saving Search Strategies for more information.
• Web of Science
  Web of Science allows you to set up an automatic alert to email results to you weekly or monthly. Registration is required. You can register or sign in on the first Web of Science screen, or at the point of saving a search history. See "Help" within Web of Science for more information.
• CSA - PsycINFO and Other Databases
  CSA allows each user to save up to twenty search strategies for a period of six months. Saving the strategy as an alert means that you will receive an e-mail each week with up to 250 records that match your strategy. Click on "Help" in CSA for more information on saved searches.
• Ebsco Host
  Ebsco Host is a collection of e-journals from many disciplines. You can search and save the strategy as an alert after first registering for a personal account. See Ebsco Host's help for more information.
• NOTE: Many other search services and databases offer alerts and the ability to save search strategies. Look for references to "alerts" or "saved searches" in the help section or guide.

News Sites

• 1stHeadlines - Health
• AMEDEO.com
• Access Science: Headline News
  (Licensed; click on "Subscriber Log-in" to enter.)
• CNN Health
• Environmental News Network
• Medical News Today
• ScienceDaily
• Science Now
• The Why Files: Science Behind the News

Are you looking for convenient way to keep up with the latest news?
Try RSS feeds.

• Dartmouth News Center
  The News Center’s RSS Primer offers an introduction to RSS, recommendations for free aggregators, and links to RSS feeds.
• Biomedical News Feeds - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  For a list of news feeds relevant to biomedicine and health sciences, try this site from the Ebling Library at UW.
• RSS E-Journals - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Also from Ebling Library; a selection of the biomedical and health sciences electronic journals with available RSS Feeds.