To create a search alert:

1. From the Document search page, perform a new search. The Search results page opens.

2. From the search results page, click Set alert. The Set Alert pop-up opens.

3. Set the frequency and day of week to start alerts.

To create an author alert:

1. From the Author search page, perform a new search. The Search results page opens.

2. From the search results page, click an author's name. The author details page opens.

3. From the author details page, click Get citation alerts. The Set Alert Author Citation Alert pop-up opens.

To create a document alert:

1. From the Document search page, perform a new search. The Search results page opens.

2. From the search results page, click an document's name. The Document details page opens.

3. From the Document details page, click Set citation alerts. The Set Document Citation Alert pop-up opens.

Scopus Video Tutorial: How to save searches and set alerts

When you create a citation alert, Web of Science notifies you by e-mail whenever a document has been cited by a new article, weekly or monthly for a topic search, or an email alert for the latest Table of Contents from a journal. The alert is active for one year. You may renew the alert at any time.  

To create an alert, you must be a registered user and you must sign in to Web of Science.

To create a document alert:

1. Sign in to Web of Science.

2. Run a search from the Search or Advanced Search page to find records for which you want to create a Citation Alert.

3. From the Results page, select the title of a record to go to the Full Record page.

4. Click the Create Citation Alert link to open the Create Citation Alert overlay dialog.

To create a search alert:

1. Sign in to Web of Science.

2. Run a search from the Search or Advanced Search page to find records for which you want to create a Citation Alert.

3. Click the Create Alert bell and name the alert.

To create a Journal alert:

1. Select Saved Searches & Alerts from the My Tools menu to go to the Saved Searches and Alerts page.

2. Select the Journal Alerts tab.

3. Click the Add Journals button to launch the journals finder.

4. Search and select titles.

Video tutorial

Saving Searches and Creating Alerts in Web of Science

It is not necessary to have a My Research account to subscribe to email alerts. However, if you are signed into your My Research account while creating an alert you can view and manage all your alerts from within My Research.

To create a search alert:

1. Login to ProQuest and run a search.

2. On the search result screen, click Save search/alert and choose Create alert.

3. Select the settings that you want. If you are signed into your My Research Account you will not need to enter an email address.

To create a journal alert:

1. Login to ProQuest.

2. Click on Publications.

3. Search for a publication, or choose one from the list of publications and click on the title.

4. Click on Create alert and select your settings.

To create a search alert:

1. Do a search for the topic of interest

2. Click the envelope icon in the sidebar of the search results page

3. Enter your email address, and click "Create alert". 

4. You will receive emails when new papers are uploaded to scholar.

To create a document alert:

1. Search for the title of your paper

2. Click on the "Cited by" link at the bottom of the search result

3. Click on the envelope icon in the left sidebar of the search results page.

To create a search alert:

1. Go to Help -> User accounts -> Subscribe to email listings

2. Follow instructions to Subscribe to daily listing emails

To create a search alert:

1. To set up alerts for ui.adsabs.harvard, you can follow these steps:

2. Go to the ADS website (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/) and create an account if you haven't already done so.

3. Once you have logged in to your account, enter your search terms in the search bar at the top of the page.

4. Refine your search by selecting specific fields, date ranges, and other criteria using the advanced search options.

5. Once you have entered your search criteria, click on the "Search" button to execute the search.

6. Click on the "Create email notification" button located to the right of the search bar.

7. Give your search alert a name and select frequency

8. Click on the "Create" button 

9. You will receive email notifications whenever new articles matching your search criteria are added to the ADS database.

To create a search alert:

1. Run you search

2. Sign in as Monash student

3. Click the pin to save query

4. Click on your account options top right 

5. Go to saved items

6. select saved searches

7. Click the bell icon to get notified of new items matching your search

To create a Table of Contents (TOC) service:

1. Go to BrowZine homepage.

2. Search for any journal.

3. Click on Journal Title.

4. Click Add to Bookshelf.

5. Go to Settings on desktop,  iOS or Android app.

6. Under Settings allow email notifications.

7. Click Allow New Content Notifications.