Biology: Setting up alerts

Connect to Web of Science

1. Access the Full Record of an article.
2. On the Full Record page, click the Create Citation Alert link on the righT
3. Log into your Web of Science account.  You must create a free WOS account to create alerts.
4. On the Create Citation Alerts pop-up, Choose email, select format, note expiration date of one year, click Create Citation Alert.
5. Click Close. 

If a record does not have a Create Citation Alert button, it does not contain sufficient information for the alerting system to connect it to references cited by other articles.

Connect to Scopus 

1. On the Document details page, click Set citation alert on the right of the page.
2. Login with your Elsevier account (you must create a free individual account)
2. Keep the default name or create a new name for the alert.
3. Enter the email address(es) to which alerts should be sent.
4. Choose frequency, format, and status
5. Click Set Alert.
6. Click the Alerts bar at screen top to modify Alerts.

Connect to Google Scholar

To create an alert for articles citing a particular paper:

1. Find the paper in Google Scholar.
2. Click on the “Cited by” link below the search result.
3. Click envelope on the left side of the screen.

JournalTOCs provides access to the Tables Of Contents (TOCs) of the current issues of over 30,000 journals that produce TOC RSS feeds.  An individual who registers for the free option of this service can

• follow and receive email alerts for 15 journals.
• searches will retrieve up to 25 articles

Users can search for journals by title or ISSN, or keywords in journal article titles. Journals TOCs can be browsed by publisher or subject. 

To follow a journal, from the search and browse results, click on the box next to the journal title.   Click Search to return to the main page and see a list of the journals you are following

When viewing alerts off-campus, consider using the Penn EZproxy browser bookmarklet for easy access to Penn subscriptions:  

For most all sites, it is necessary to first set up an individual account.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries.

After you enter a search, on the results page click on the option on the left. Complete form

and click Create Alert.