University of Connecticut | Current Awareness and Alerting Services
Many of the libraries' licensed research databases and electronic journal collections offer users the ability to create research alert profiles - automated keyword search and tables of contents alerts for journals, sent weekly to an email address.
Cross-disciplinary Databases and Electronic Journal Collections
| Ingenta can provide UConn researchers with regular table of contents or keyword search result alerts from more than 20,000 journals. | Instructions for receiving new issue and search alerts from Ingenta |
| Web of Science indexes more than 8,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Keyword searches, journal title searches, and cited author searches can be run automatically every week, and any new results sent to your email address. | Current awareness instructions for Web of Science search alerts |
| Scopus indexes over 14,000 peer-reviewed journals in the sciences and social sciences. Search Alerts and Document Citation Alerts can be run every week. | See My Alerts tab at top of search screen for information on creating Search Alerts and Document Citation Alerts |
| Science Direct provides online access to over 1,200 journal titles in a wide variety of science and social science disciplines. Free current awareness features include: Science Direct Search Alert, Volume/Issue Alert when new journal issues become available on ScienceDirect, and Citation Alerts - when a selected article is cited. See below for more electronic journals offering alerting features. | Search Alert online tutorial for Science Direct |
| Academic Search Premier through EbscoHOST is a multidisciplinary journal and magazine database providing access to more than 4,500 full text titles. | Saving a search as an alert instructions for Academic Search Premier |
Other Discipline-Specific Databases
The following journal research databases are focused on one discipline and can save searches and run them weekly. See instructions for configuring the current awareness tool.
Electronic Journals Collections
The UConn Libraries license access to online content from many different journal publishers and organizations. Most provide a free current awareness service through which the tables of contents of new journal issues and notices of new research in your field can be sent via email.
Many of these publishers produce titles in a variety of disciplines. Use the libraries' eJournal Locator to determine the publisher for a particular journal title.
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