Alerts and RSS Guides
Step by step instructions for creating your own email or RSS alert are in the individual guides listed by database vendor. If you don't find your database listed, each guide links to the full list of databases covered by the guide.
| Vendor | Sample Databases Covered | Guides to Email Alerts and RSS Feeds | Maintained By | Last Updated or Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACM Digital Library | ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) | Vendor Help for TOC alerts / RSS NA | Steenbock | 04/09 |
| ACS Journals | American Chemical Society journals | Vendor Help | Chemistry | 04/09 |
| AIP Journals | American Institute of Physics journals | Vendor Help | Chemistry | 04/09 |
| Beilstein/Gmelin CrossFire | Beilstein, Gmelin | Alerts Guide / RSS NA | Chemistry | 04/09 |
| Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | EconLit, Environmental Science, Sociological Abstracts, and more | Alerts Guide / RSS | Wendt | 10/08 |
| Congressional Quarterly | CQ Researcher | Vendor Help | Steenbock | 04/09 |
| EBSCOhost | Academic Search, Agricola, America: History & Life, Business Source Elite, CINAHL, Communication & Mass Media, ERIC, Family Studies, GreenFile, Historical Abstracts, PsycINFO, SocIndex, SportDISCUS, and more. | Alerts / RSS Guide | Steenbock | 04/09 |
| FirstSearch/ WorldCat | Alternative Press, Geobase, WorldCat, and more. | Alerts NA / RSS NA | Steenbock | 04/09 |
| Engineering Village | Compendex (Engineering Index) and INSPEC, and more. | Alerts / RSS Guide | Wendt | 12/07 |
| IEEE | IEEE Explore | Vendor Help |
Wendt | 04/09 |
| Ingenta | More than 800 of our electronic journal subscriptions at UW - Madison Libraries are in Ingenta. This resource does not have Find-It links. UW-Madison does not have access to all journals in Ingenta. Articles can be ordered through Library Express. | Alerts / RSS Guide | Social Science Reference |
10/08 |
| ISI Web of Knowledge | Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, CAB, FSTA, Zoological Record, and more | Alerts Guide/ RSS | Steenbock | 01/09 |
| MadCat | New in MadCat (RSS Feeds by Subject or Campus Library) | Vendor Help | Steenbock | 04/09 |
| Ovid SP | HAPI , International Pharmaceutical Abstracts | Vendor Help | Ebling | 04/09 |
| Project Muse | Project Muse | RSS Vendor Help & Alerts Vendor Help | Social Science Reference |
04/09 |
| ProQuest Direct Web | ABI Inform Global, Ethnic News Watch, Proquest Newspapers, Proquest Research Library, and more. | Alerts Guide/RSS | Steenbock | 01/09 |
| PubMed/ My NCBI | PubMed NCBI and Entrez databases such as Genome, Structure and more. | Alerts / RSS Guide | Ebling | 11/06 |
| RefWorks | Get Information From RSS Feeds Into RefWorks / Get RSS Feeds from RefShare accounts |
Vendor RSS Help / Vendor RefShare Help | Chemistry | 04/09 |
| ScienceDirect | Elsevier journals. Find It links are available. | Vendor Help | Chemistry | 04/09 |
| Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) | See ISI Web of Knowledge | |||
| WebSPIRS (Silver Platter) | Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals | Alerts Guide / RSS NA | Steenbock | 04/09 |
| WilsonWeb | Applied Science & Technology, Art Abstracts, Business Fulltext, Humanities Fulltext, Reader's Guide, Social Sciences, and more. | Alerts Guide / RSS | Social Science Reference | 10/08 |
| Wiley Interscience | This resource does not have Find-It links. UW-Madison does not have access to all Wiley Interscience journals. Articles can be ordered through Library Express. | Vendor Help | Chemistry | 04/09 |