Database Search Services: Current Awareness for Journal Literature

Self-Service Alerting Services (Free)

Some of these resources are limited to TJU faculty, students and staff (). Others, while free, may require registration. Access to all full-text articles cited may not be available or may require a fee. Please see each service's site, when applicable, for a list of journals available for Table of Contents delivery.

Need help setting up an alert? Request a FREE consultation or contact Gary Kaplan .

Alert Options in Full-Text Databases

Journal Alert Services

BMJ Updates+
Evidence-based alerting tool provides clinical practitioners with the best new evidence concerning important advances in health care. For a typical "generalist" clinician (in general practice or general internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, or psychiatry), aiming to keep up with the most important literature, BMJ Updates+ shrinks about 50,000 articles per year in over 110 clinical journals to the most important 1 - 2 articles per month.

Faculty of 1000 Biology
Faculty of 1000 is a literature awareness service that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers based on the recommendations of over 2,300 scientists organized into 24 faculties (Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, etc.), further organized into Sections (Biocatalysis, Protein folding, etc.). With free registration (for Jeffersonians), set up personalized MyF1000 Biology email alerts based on your own search strategies or your choice of faculties.

MORE Raters for McMaster PLUS
As a MORE Rater, you receive the number of articles per month that you would like to rate for eventual inclusion in evidence-based journals. The McMaster program continues to recruit raters for all disciplines/specialties for all the MORE systems. Contact them at more@mcmaster.ca (physicians), moreebn@mcmaster.ca (nurses), or ptot@mcmaster.ca (rehab specialists).

My BioMed Central
Subject-based alerts and a save-search feature are available. Free access is provided to a large majority of the full text.

My Highwire
Both Table of Contents and topical alerts are available, via e-mail or PDA Channels. Choose Tables of Contents (from both current and future content) or notification that an issue has just gone online. CiteTrack feature. Several step registration process.

ScienceDirect: My Alerts
Use the online tutorial to set up Table of Contents alerts and topical alerts. Access to full text is limited to the library's subscriptions. Journal Issue Alerts which notify you when a new journal issue becomes available, Citation Alerts which notify you when a selected article is cited by another article. Several step registration process.

SpringerLink Alert
Request Table of Contents Alerts for the Springer journals, which are arranged by subject area.

Wiley InterScience Registered Users
Wiley provides both Table of Contents Alerts and topical alerts. You choose whether to receive automatic emails or to execute search updates yourself.

Individual Journal Alerting Services
Many online journals permit Table of Contents updates directly from their Web sites. These services usually do not require a subscription to the journal. However, viewing the full text of the article usually requires subscription. Examples from JEFFLINE's E-Journals List include:

AJR: American Journal of Roentgenology
American Journal of Public Health
JAMA & the Archives journals
Nature Publishing Group Journals
Neurology
New England Journal of Medicine
Science

Other Self-Service Resources To Consider

EurekAlert
EurekAlert is a news server from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for up-to-date research in science, medicine and technology. News posted daily by major research providers. Includes press releases, with a search facility, links to the home pages of peer-reviewed journals, and links to popular research magazines. Subjects: medical research publications, science and technology news.

Google Alerts
Choose frequency of update and whether you want news and/or Web alerts. Good for grey literature, conference proceedings, etc.

Informed Health Online
Weekly or monthly email letter published by the Health Research and Education Foundation, Australia. Easy-to-read updates on the Cochrane Collaborative.

Science.gov Alerts
Weekly alerts about new content added to the primary U.S. federal government site for public information about the sciences.

Mediated Alerting Services For Jeffersonians, Alumni, Affiliates and Library Members (Fee-Based)

Scott Library regrets that we must recover costs for some staff time and database fees. The following fees apply when library staff must set up, monitor and deliver regular alerts. An alert is defined as a single search strategy executed against a single vendor (it may cover several databases).

The Mediated Alerting Service is available only to Jefferson faculty, students and staff, Jefferson alumni, affiliates and members of the library. Contact Gary Kaplan to set up an alert.

Mediated Alert Service	Setup Fee	Fee Per Alert
Alerts from TJU subscription databases Examples: Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO	$35	$3 per weekly alert $6 per monthly or quarterly alert
Alerts from pay-per-search databases Examples: EMBASE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, BIOSIS, Science Citation Index	$35	$3 per weekly alert, plus online vendor charges $6 per monthly or quarterly alert, plus online vendor charges