Keeping up-to-date with the literature in the biological sciences can be a difficult task. The following are ways to keep current with the literature and science news.
These alerts will provide e-mails on the search topic of your choice, authors, subjects, and/or keywords. Each time the database is updated, records that match your search are sent to your e-mail.
Movie (2m:04ss) Movie (2m:57ss)PubMed and Web of Science are generally the most current databases. However, BIOSIS, Zoological Record, and CAB Abstracts may locate additional articles because of the depth of indexing and coverage. If you'd like help setting up an alert, send us an e-mail.
Web of Science alerts will send you e-mail when a published work is cited in a source indexed by Web of Knowledge. This service reviews over 4,000 publications & is currently the most comprehensivesource of cited references on the web. It can be useful to set up alerts to see when your own work or the work of others is cited.
Having tables of contents mailed to you directly from publishers is another good way to keep up with a particular journal. The following publishers offer e-mails of their tables of contents pages.
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