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. Then you can follow the 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 publication
- a subject area by following a database search.
You can receive email notifications or follow journals and searches using an RSS feed.
Follow journals in BrowZine
BrowZine allows you to follow journals in your subject area. You can browse journals by subject, add favorite journals and read and save articles. BrowZine is available on the web and as an app. Read more about BrowZine here
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Subscribe to tables of contents
On the journal's website you can most often subscribe to tables of contents for new issues of the journal, so-called TOCs.
If you want to follow several journals, it may be easier to use the "Journal TOCs" service. Create an account and choose which journals you want to follow. When a new issue of the journal is published, you will receive the table of contents by e-mail. Search for the article in the library's search tool to see if you have access to the full text.
Follow journals in PubMed
In PubMed, you can follow a journal either by email or RSS. You can then see new articles that are published in the journal. Do like this:
- Go to PubMed.
- Log in to PubMed with one of the login options.
- Click the Journals link under the Explore heading.
- Search for the journal you want to follow in the search box.
- On the journal's page you will find the box PubMed Search Builder. Click the Add to search builder button and then Search PubMed.
- Now a search is made in PubMed and you get a list with all the articles in the journal.
- Click Create RSS below the search box to create an RSS feed.
- To receive an email when new articles have been published, click on Create alert and answer Yes to the question "Would you like e-mail updates of new search results?".
Follow a subject area through a database search
A good way to follow your subject area is to search on the topic in a database and then set an alert for the search. You will then receive a notification when a new article within your topic has been published.
Most databases have the "Create alert" function. You can use it to get new results sent to your email or RSS reader. This feature is available, for example, in PubMed, Cochrane, Cinahl, PsychInfo, Google Scholar, and when you search the library search tool. Do like this:
- Log in or create an account in the database.
- Search on your topic.
- Select Create Alert, Save Search or something similar (it can be called different things in different databases).
- Select that you want e-mail, how often and in what format.
Instructional video on how to create alerts in PubMed.
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