🔎 Get Started with Library Research

Research alerts serve to notify you of any new research published on a particular topic. 

There are two ways to set up these alerts in our library resources:

Search Alerts

Search alerts allow you to specify keywords, subjects in a field, or search strings that are of interest to you. When a new record is added to our library catalog and it matches your saved search criteria, then you will receive a notification.

Journal Alert

Journal alerts help you to stay informed of new research in your area. Even though search alerts are fairly straightforward to set up, the steps to create a journal alert occur within the actual database or e-journal interface.

1. Sign in to your library account by using the 'Sign In' button in the upper right of the webpage.
2. Start the search with keywords or an advanced search string.
   • Use the filters on the left side to limit to specific formats (journal article, newspaper article, book, etc.)
3. At center of the top of the results page, click on 'Save Query'
4. Click on your account in the upper right of the webpage and click on 'Saved Items'
5. Navigate to the 'Saved Searches' tab and click on the bell-shaped icon next to the saved search to create an alert.
   • Modify the receiving email address if a different email is desired.
   • Generally, alerts are sent weekly if there are new items which match your saved search.
   • To cancel an alert, come to this page again and click on the bell icon to unset an alert.

EBSCOhost 

1. Sign in (or create an account if you have not yet), then navigate to the home page
2. At the top, click on Publications and then browse or search for the publication you want to follow.
3. Select the "Journal" filter on the left, and then search for the journal(s) you want to follow.
4. Click and open the journal's record, click the Share link, and then click the E-mail Alert link.
5. Configure the email and frequency details and then click Save Alert.

Nexis Uni (Formerly Lexis Nexis)

1. Login in (or create an account if you have not yet) and then search for a publication.
2. Click the bell-shaped icon to create an alert
3. Complete the alert configuration form and click Create Alert when finished.

NewsBank (Access World News)

1. Create a personal account to save searches and create alerts by clicking the link under "Session Folder" and then "Sign in to My Folder" 
2. Once you are logged in, click on the A-Z source list and a search for your desired publication.
3. Click Create Alert on the publication's page.
4. Set options for email addresses and frequency of alerts.
5. Click Create Alert button to set the alert.

Proquest Central

1. Login in (or create an account if you have not yet) and then search for a publication.
2. Click the Create Alert button on the top right of the page.
3. Set options for email addresses and frequency of alerts.
4. Click Create Alert button.

You can create an account to save searches and records indefinitely in ProQuest if desired.

BBC Monitoring

BBC Monitoring monitors "over 3,000 sources across radio, TV, press, online and social, in 100 languages."

• BBC Monitoring Insight (UK) - Newsbank
• BBC Monitoring International Reports - Newsbank
• BBC Monitoring Media - ProQuest

The Economist - Gale

Washington Post - ProQuest

Japan-related media:

• The Japan News (Yomiuri Shimbun's daily English newspaper) - Newsbank
• Kyodo News International (Japanese media newswire) - Newsbank