Journal Alerts
A journal alert automatically notifies you when new content from a journal is available.
How to Set Up Journal Alerts
- Go to the Journals page and type in the journal title in the Search box, e.g. American Literature.
- Choose a link that provides access to current journals, e.g. 2000 to Present in e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection.
- Look for a link such as Alerts or Set up Alerts to customize an alert to your email.
Another option is to use a search engine to find the publisher's website and look for a link such as "Alert Services".
Search Alerts
A search alert automatically notifies you when new articles or content meeting your search query (eg. : keyword, subject search, author, etc.) are available.
How To Set Up a Search Alert
- Go to databases and type in title of database/index, e.g. MLA
- Conduct a search
- Look for link on the results page such as "set up alert" or "save search/alert"
Citation Tracking
Citation analysis means tracing citations forward or backward in time, either to judge a paper's importance, or to follow up on a research thread.
Web of Science - do a cited reference search. For help, go to Web of Science: How to do a Cited Reference Search.
Check our Citation Searching guide to find other databases that have the capability of searching by cited references.
