Search alerts
Search alerts
Search alerts are an efficient way of receiving notifications of new publications added to databases that match search criteria. They are offered by free services on the Web and subscription databases.
The process for setting up a search alert generally involves:
- setting up a database account
- searching a database and saving the search as an alert
- nominating a delivery frequency and method (e.g., email or RSS)
Instructions for setting up search alerts in key databases
- EBSCOhostEbscoHost is a multidisciplinary database platform
- Lexis Advance (replaces LexisNexis Au) (La Trobe users only)Australian case law, legislation, commentary, forms and precedents, legal journals and dictionaries
- OvidOvid indexes journals in the health and medical sciences, life sciences, psychology and engineering
- ProQuestProQuest provides access to databases in a range of disciplines
- PubMedPubMed provides access to citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals and online books
- ScopusScopus is the largest multi-disciplinary citation database of peer reviewed literature
- Web of Science (La Trobe users only)Web of Science provides access to citations of literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities
Google alerts
Alerts are available for Google and Google Scholar searches.