University of New South Wales - Library

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	Search Alerts Citation Alert Journal Issue Alerts	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	Table of Contents Email Alerts Citation Alerts	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.