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FADA - Adopt a Postgraduate 2025 : Creating Alerts

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How to set up alerts from a few selected databases

Alert Assistance

Contact your Faculty Librarian for assistance. For other databases not listed visit the help option of a database.

Alerts: keeping up-do-date with scientific literature in your discipline

  • helps you to stay up to date in your discipline without repeating searches
  • pushes the latest relevant information to you in the form of an e-mail with hyperlinks
  • saves you time with literature searches

Alert types:

  • Search alerts notify you each time a saved search renders new results
  • Author citation alerts notify you when a document by one of your selected authors is cited
  • Document (article) citation alerts notify you when one of your selected document is cited
  • Journal alerts notify you when a new issue of your favourite journal becomes available

Select a database to create a topic search or a citation alert. Library databases cover a comprehensive list of journals while publisher alerts are limited to a significantly fewer number of journals.