Awareness and Alert services are a way to keep up-to-date with journals/articles in your area of interest/research through regular email "alerts." Regent University Library subscribes to a number of Indexes and Databases that make electronic alert services available to students, faculty and staff. Three different types of alert services are:

Table of contents alerts
Table of contents alerts are email updates of the table of contents for the most current issues of the journals you specify while signing up.

Daily/weekly email alerts
Daily/weekly email alerts notify subscribers of articles matching submitted topics. Alert frequencies vary depending on the publisher's database updates.

Saved search alerts
Saved search alerts are email notifications of recent articles matching previously submitted searches.

Please note:
In order to sign up for an alert service an email address is required along with a username and password. If you are having trouble with your electronic alerts, you will need to contact the publisher of the database/journal or the contacts listed on the web site you signed up from.

Databases and Journals

Types of Alerts: Saved search alerts
CLIO Alert Profile (on the search page of American History and Life and Historical Abstracts) provides the facility to set up alerts for up to ten searches for which you would like to receive monthly updates of new records to your email. Click on CLIO Alert Profile to set up a username and password. Your email is required to set up these alerts. For more information please refer to the ABC-CLIO Frequently Asked Questions page.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Databases include: Communication Abstracts, Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-text Collection, EconLit, Education: A SAGE Full-text Collection, GeoRef, PAIS International, Political Science: A SAGE Full-text Collection, Psychology: A SAGE Full-text Collection

Types of Alerts: Saved Search and Daily/Weekly Alerts.

CSA offers both a saved search and an alerting facility. A saved search includes saving a search strategy, which can be selected from a list and run at a later point in time. If required, the saved search can also be saved as an alert. The alerting facility searches the saved search for new content every week and sends an email message with the records (max. 250) that match this new content. The saved search and alert options maybe accessed from Search History/Alerts button on the database search screen.
More information about this service is available from CSA.

EBSCOHost

Databases include: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, Communication and Mass Media Complete, EBSCO Online, ERIC, MEDLINE, International Security & Counter Terrorism Database, New Testament Abstracts, Old Testament Abstracts, World History Collection

Types of Alerts: Saved Search. My EBSCOhost allows you to collect information you plan on reusing in a future EBSCOhost session. Once you sign in, you can save search results, persistent links to searches, search history and alerts, journal alerts and web pages to your personal area. All items are saved in a folder that only you can access.

To create an alert: Once you choose a database, click on Sign In to My EBSCOhost at the top left of the screen. Then click on I'm a new user.

Emerald FullText

Databases include: This database is a collection of over 100 electronic journals spanning subjects such as: marketing, general management, human resources, quality, property, operations, production & economics, library & information services, information management, training & education, and engineering.

Types of Alerts: The Emerald FullText database has a dual feature e-mail alert service: Saved Search Alert - after each search from within Emerald you will be given the option of adding it to your alert profile. Each time new articles are added to the database, you will be sent the brief citations of any new articles that match your search criteria. Emerald also offers TOC (Table of Contents) Alert - will e-mail you the contents page of any chosen journal whenever the latest issue becomes available online.

To create an alert:

• Click on Emerald Alert..
• Click on either Saved Search Alert or ToC (Table of Contents) Alert.
• Follow instructions.

Ingenta Alerts

Ingenta includes both Table of Contents Alerts (for 1000s of journals) - this service is only available for Regent University Faculty and Students please see a librarian for help - as well as Saved Search Alerts. To set up alerts of either type, you must first register for an individual account (use the "Sign up Now" button on the Ingenta home page), or log in once you have established a personal account.

Project Muse

Databases include: Set up exactly what kind of journal alerts you want to receive, including selecting new issue alerts by individual titles, subject groups, or collections. The new issue alerts include direct links to tables of contents.

Types of Alerts: Saved search alerts
To create an alert:
• Link to the Project Muse Journal Alerts Page
• Enter the email address you want you alerts sent to.
• Click the Make or Change Selections button.
• To receive alerts when new journal issues come out in Muse, put check marks in front of the titles you are interested in.
• You can also view and choose journals organized by Subject or Collection.
• When you are done, click the Save Changes and Exit button.

Regent University Library Online Catalog

Types of Alerts: "New book" alerts when the library receives books in subject areas that you select.

To create an alert: Go to My Library Record.
Once you log into your Patron Record, click on "Search the Catalog". After searching the catalog, click on the button "Save Search as Preferred Search." This stores the search in your account. To get email when new items are added, return to your Patron Record, click on “Preferred Searches” and click the box beside your search in the column labeled “Mark for Email”.

ScienceDirect

Databases include: ScienceDirect provides electronic versions of many science journals published by Elsevier.

Types of Alerts: ScienceDirect allows you to search and save searches as alerts, and have them delivered by email at your choice of frequency. ScienceDirect also provides "Journal Issue Alerts"--which are email messages notifying you that the next issue of a journal is available. The email message includes a link to the electronic table of contents (with links to full text articles).

To create an alert: You must first register, or log in if you are already registered, and click on "My Alerts" at the top of the page.