Alerts
"I find the table-of-contents service to be a great way to keep up-to-date with the current literature in one's field and, more specifically, in one's research domain."
-Joe Raelin, NU Center for Work and Learning
Personal alerts allow you to create customized searches that run automatically, with the results e-mailed to you on a regular basis. Alerts are like having a personal research assistant who searches specific research databases and delivers the results to you.
myNuCat
Log in to myNuCat and perform a search. Save the search by clicking on Preferred Searches. Your saved search will run on a weekly basis and you will be e-mailed when new materials that match your search criteria are added to the library's collections. See detailed instructions for preferred searches.
Ejournal Finder (My TDNet)
Set up alerts to e-mail yourself the tables-of-contents of new issues of your favorite journals. You may also set up keyword searches that will email you weekly when articles on your topic have been published in subscribed journals. To set up a My TDNet alert, click on My TDNet and create a new profile.
See detailed instructions for My TDNet.
Article databases
The NU Libraries subscribe to over 75 article research databases, many of which provide research alerts. One database vendor, Ebsco, allows one to set up alerts from any of the following databases:
- Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
- Art Abstracts
- ATLA Religion Database
- Business Source Premier
- CINAHL
- Communications & Mass Media
- Econlit
- ERIC
- Humanities Abstracts
- Medline
- MLA International Bibliography
- PsycINFO
- Social Sciences Abstracts
Please check with a library subject specialist to learn about the availability of alerts in your area of interest.
