Search alerts within databases can be set up to provide automatic notification when new results are available. Instead of having to constantly re-enter the exact search terms into a database each time, setting up an alert is an easy and effective way of gathering information on your subject.
To use the alerting facilities on most databases you will need to create a personal account once logged in.
Aberystwyth University subscribe to a range of databases. some cover all subject areas (such as Web of Science, Scopus), some cover particular types of publication (for instance, Index to theses), and some cover specific subject areas (such as English Poetry via ProQuest).
You will need to establish which are the most appropriate databases to search - see your subject guide for guidance.
Database alerts
Citation alerts
See the next tabs in this box for details of how to do this on the most popular databases.
Scopus is a large bibliographic database covering all subjects which includes selected conference proceedings and over 34,000 journals.
Scopus allows you to set up alerts for particular authors, documents so that you are notified when someone cites a particular article, or searches.
Searches can be for a range of criteria including keywords, journal title, and an author’s affiliation.
Scopus LibGuide by Elsevier
Scopus LibGuide - LibGuides at Elsevier
Find out more on:
Scopus tutorials
Scopus tutorials provide a visual and audio tour of Scopus and its functions.
https://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/
JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journals Tables of Contents (TOCs).
Google Scholar can be a useful tool. Google Scholar is a Web search engine that specifically searches scholarly literature and academic resources. It searches the same kinds of scholarly books, articles, and documents that you search in the Library's catalogue and databases. The scholarly, authoritative focus of Google Scholar distinguishes it from ordinary Google.
There is overlap between the content in Google Scholar and the Library's individual databases. In addition, many citations in Google Scholar will link to full text in the Library's databases or in publicly available databases.
Searching is as easy as searching in regular Google.
Like regular Google, Google Scholar returns the most relevant results first, based on an item's full text, author, source, and the number of times it has been cited in other sources. Some actions are a little different from regular Google: clicking on a title may only take you to a citation or description, rather than to the full document itself. Google Scholar will not necessarily get you to the full text of every search result.
To find the full document, look for:
In addition, Google Scholar’s Citations facility specifically enables you to track citations to your own papers within the Google Scholar network. To access the Google Scholar Citation facility, login to Google Scholar with your own Google username and password at: https://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/citations.html and follow the instructions given.
Please note that the Google Scholar database is not limited to coverage of peer-reviewed papers and can include magazine articles, websites, blogs and reports
Further information on full-text linking @Aber and Google Scholar.
https://www.google.co.uk/alerts
You can monitor the web for new content by using Google Alerts to get email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
You can get emails when new results for a topic show up in Google Search. For example, you can get info about news, products, or mentions of your name.
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check the options you want and click Save.User guide and seeing alerts
Step 1: Check what account you’re logged onto
