If you are looking for a refresher on creating alerts for
scholarly journals and news, you’re in the right place. Staying abreast of
forthcoming papers is an important aspect of scholarly engagement for
researchers, faculty, and graduate students. Reading current literature helps
to determine trends in research,
identify possible collaborators, and eliminate redundancy in research problems
and initiatives. Setting up an alert or RSS feed requires a little work on the
front end, but thereafter, you’ll receive weekly updates on your preferred
journals. Included here are several links to tutorials that will be helpful for
setting up article and news alerts for the atmospheric sciences.
Web of Science:
You can set up an alert in Web of Science to easily track
new papers by a particular author or on a specific topic, to receive tables of
contents for newly published issues of journals, and when a paper has been
cited by a publication newly added to the Web of Science database.
AMS:
For journals published by the American Meteorological Society you can
set up RSS feeds for individual journals. Journal feeds include the list of
articles from both the latest and ahead-of- print issues.
AGU:
The American Geophysical Union e-alerts can be set up for both AGU
journal articles and EOS news through the Wiley Online Library. Create a
profile, save your preferences, then select e-alert content by going to
an individual journal homepage and select “Get content alerts” then
“Alerts manager” from the drop down. From there, choose the AGU journals
or topics from which you would like to receive content alerts.
Google alerts:
Google alerts can be set up on any keyword or phrase, and
can be filtered by source, language, region, number of results, and frequency
for updates sent directly via email.