You can create alerts or email notifications to track new research being published in your field or about your research focus.
Use library databases like Scopus and EBSCO to create alerts for new journal articles, specific search terms, and/or researchers you're interested in. Google Scholar also allows users to track researchers (including yourself), search results, and citations.
Use the left-hand tabs to learn more about tracking in Scopus, EBSCO, and Google Scholar.
PubMed offers a Saved Search function for medical and health-related research. The Saved Searches feature facilitates saving search queries for NCBI databases, and provides automatic e-mail updates for saved searches, which can be set up on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Learn how to set up a Saved Search in PubMed.
IEEE Xplore allows you to create My Research Project folders to save and follow electrical and electronic engineering research. Learn how to set alerts and create My Research Projects in IEEE.
BrowZine is available to track new journal issues. When you sign up for a BrowZine account, select the "I would like to reveive email notifications when journals I'm following publish new content" opt-in. When you're signed in, you can change your user settings for email notification frequency, and enable or disable notifications. Add journals to My Bookshelf to organize and get citations. How do I get email notifications from BrowZine?
Make your research and yourself identifiable using ORCID. "ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities" (orcid.org).
Academia is an online database for researchers and academics to share and publish research, track research impact, and discover and download new research around the world.
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that allows you to connect to the scholarly articles in the University Libraries when you discover them through Google Scholar, PubMed, Wikipedia, and many journal publisher websites.
