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Alerting Services

Alerting Services, also known as SDIs (Selective Dissemination of Information), allow you to keep up to date with the latest research and literature in your field of study. They are particularly useful to staff and postgraduate or final year students who are engaged in ongoing research and need to follow developments in their discipline. Types of Alerts include:

  • Table of Contents Alerts (TOC) - The tables of contents of selected journals are sent to you by email, sometimes before the journal issue is available.
  • Saved Search Alerts (SSA) - A Saved Search Alert is based on a search in a database or group of databases. The search is run at specified intervals, usually weekly, and you are alerted if any new articles on your topic have been published.
  • Citation Alerts (CA) - A Citation Alert notifies you by email when an article of interest is referenced of cited by another article.
  • New Publications Alert (NPA) - Notifies the user of new publications (not journal issues) available from the publisher or organisation.
 
Vendor/System
Type of Alerting Service available
How to set up your Alerting Service Note:
UNSW Library Library Alert Mailing List Keep informed of new Library information resources and services.
Sirius
SSA
My Alerts  
Engineering Village (Inspec, Compendex)
SSA
Creating E-mail Alerts You will need to personally register to use the alerts facility.
Ovid (GeoRef, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Medline, Biological Abstracts and more)
TOC
SSA
Ovid AutoAlert  
ScienceDirect, Geobase and Compendex
TOC
SSA
CA
Only available via Personal Login option.
Cambridge Scientific (Aerospace, NTIS, Metadex, Engineered Materials Abstracts etc)
SSA
CSA Alert  
Emerald Fulltext
TOC
SSA
Saved Search Alert
Table of Contents Alert
Only available via Personal Login option.
Kluwer Alert
TOC
Access Kluwer Alert  
Springer Link Alert
TOC
SSA
Table of Contents Alert
Keyword Alert
 
IEEE Xplore
TOC
Email Alerts
Does not alert for Conference Proceedings and Standards
Institute of Physics
TOC
SSA
Email Alerting Service Table of Contents and Enhanced alerts
Wiley Interscience
TOC
SSA
Alerting and Alerts to Profile Only available via Personal Login option.
ISI Web of Knowledge (Inspec, Current Contents and Web of Science)
SSA
TOC
CA
Only available via Personal Login option.
Australian Bureau of Statistics Email Notification Service Be informed of the latest releases from ABS
American Chemical Society (ACS)
TOC
SSA
ToC Alerts
ASAP Alerts
 
American Society of Civil Engineers
TOC
NPA
Email Alerts
New Publications Alert
Australian Standards StandardsWatch Only available via Personal Login option.