What Are Research Alerts
Research alerts are services provided by databases or journals that allow you to be notified either by email or through your RSS Feedreader when new information is published. There are two main types of alert systems -- General Search Alerts and Table of Contents Alerts.
Read moreSearch Alert Tutorial
This 2 minute tutorial (with sound) will show you the basics of search alert services.
Databases with Search Alerts
Follow the Read More link below to learn about setting up search alerts in various databases.
Read moreTime to move away from Ingenta
Ingenta Users: Beginning August 2009, OSU will no longer provide access to the Ingenta Current Awareness Service. For help "read more" below.
ticTOCs - New Table of Contents Alerting Service
An alternative to Ingenta is the ticTOCs table of contents alerting service.
- You can search for journals from which you would like to receive table of contents, and incorporate those feeds into an RSS feed reader including the RSS feeds folder in Microsoft Outlook;
- ticTOCs is not connected to the OSU Libraries' catalog or ejournal list;
- In order to find the full-text of an article of interest go to the E-Journal list and use the "Citation Linker."
ticTOCs Tutorials
The ticTOCS service is quite straight forward to use if you wish to experiment on your own. However, if you would like a preview to get started, view the following tutorials:
- Part I: Setting up MyTOCs
- this is all you need if you plan on returning to the ticTOCS site to view your journal alerts;
- 3 1/4 minutes (no sound).
- Part II: Exporting your journal alerts file
- to view updates via the RSS feed in your Outlook email account.
- 2 1/4 minutes (no sound).
Last Update: 01 Oct 11:43 | Tagged with: Research Tools Keeping Current Library resources
