You may have already noticed the journal collection Elsevier ScienceDirect available through the Scott Memorial Library's Cyber Cafe. The Scott Library subscribes to over 100 full-text journal articles in the biomedical and life sciences through ScienceDirect. In addition, the tables of contents for several hundred titles in other fields are also available. Most titles are available from 1995 to the present year and access is limited to TJU/TJUH students, staff, faculty, and qualified member subscribers.
How can you receive alerts for table of contents of journals or alerts to articles in their journals on a particular topic? The Scott Memorial Library now has available an online tutorial to take you through the process of how to set up search alerts and new issue alerts.
You will need to create your own username and password for ScienceDirect. This is separate from your Jeffline username and password and is not managed by the library staff. If you forget your username or password, you will need to contact ScienceDirect. The alerts cannot be distributed to other individuals; therefore, each person must set up his or her own alert.
The tutorial will show you how to create email alerts using the following advanced system features:
- Search Alerts -- pre-schedule a search request to run automatically and deliver an email notification with a link to the updated search results.
- New Issue Alerts -- request an email notification when a new issue of a specific journal is made available on ScienceDirect. The notification includes a link to the issue's table of contents.
Please feel free to visit the ScienceDirect collection of journals that Jefferson subscribes to via the Cyber Café to see if there are any journals that you would like to set up search alerts or new issue alerts.
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