Follow new articles

A good way to stay up to date in your subject area is to subscribe to tables of contents from relevant journals. Another way is to create a search alert in a database. This lets you follow research in your subject area, regardless of which journal it is published in.

You can monitor:

• New articles in a journal
• New citations for an author or a publication
• A subject area by saving a database search

You can receive notifications by email or follow journals and searches with an RSS feed.

Follow journals in BrowZine

BrowZine allows you to follow journals in your subject area. You can browse journals by subject, add favorites, open articles and save them. BrowZine is available on the web and as an app.

• BrowZine
  Learn more about BrowZine and how to create an account.

Subscribe to tables of contents

On a journal’s website, you can often subscribe to the table of contents for new issues.

Follow a journal in PubMed

In PubMed, you can follow a journal by email or RSS. This allows you to receive updates when new articles are published in the journal. Do as follows:

1. Go to PubMed.
2. Log in with one of the login options.
3. Select Journals under the Explore heading.
4. Search for the journal you want to follow in the search box.
5. On the journal’s page, use the PubMed Search Builder. Choose Add to search builder and then Search PubMed.
6. A search will run in PubMed and you will get a list of all articles in the journal.
7. To create an RSS feed, choose Create RSS below the search box.
8. To receive email updates, choose Create alert and confirm that you want to receive email updates of new search results.

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  Follow the link to create an alert in PubMed.
  

Follow a subject area with a database search

A good way to keep track of your subject area is to run a search in a database and then set an alert for the search. You will receive a notification when a new article on your topic is published.

Most databases have a function called Create alert. You can use it to have new results sent to your email or RSS reader. This function is available, for example, in PubMed, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Google Scholar and in the Library Search Tool. Do as follows:

1. Log in or create an account in the database.
2. Search for your topic.
3. Select Create Alert, Save Search, or a similar option.
4. Choose email delivery, how often you want updates, and in what format.

Create alerts in PubMed

Video guide on creating alerts in PubMed.