Create search alerts in databases

A quick and easy way to keep track of newly published articles within your subject is to create search alerts.

Rest comfortably at your desk, knowing that new articles that match your search-query will arrive directly into your inbox!

When you have built a search query that you feel gives relevant results, you can subscribe to this query and the database automatically performs a search daily, weekly, monthly, depending on your wishes. you will then recieve an email with the new articles which has been found during the timeframe.

Search alerts can be made in most databases, often you need to create an account first.

Watch the short video below that gives an example on how you create a search alert in the database Scopus. 

 

 

Another great way to keep track of a research field is to do citation searching. Follow citations from a specific article or author and see how the research output has moved on since that article.

The video blow shows you how to conduct a citation search, how to access an articles references and how the algorithm for related documents works in Scopus.