Monitoring Journal-reported Research

Researchers can monitor the scholarly journal literature in the databases below by taking advantage of one or more of the following notification services: requesting topic, author, citation, or search term alerts; generating custom RSS feeds; or receiving updated results from saved searches.

FindArticles (multidisciplinary)
- An article database that lets you generate a keyword-based RSS feed; you can do so by scrolling down to the search box at the bottom of the RSS site map page.

HighBeam Research (multidisciplinary)
- Another database that allows you to build a custom RSS feed based on your search terms; this page explains how.

HighWire Press (life sciences emphasis, but covers social sciences as well)
- Through the CiteTrack service, you can request e-mail alerts for keywords, authors or citations that appear in new journal articles. Alerts also can be created immediately after you conduct a search. For more information, visit the CiteTrack page.

PILOTS Database (mental health literature)
- Registration allows you to save a search, and then be notified by e-mail when new results matching your search criteria appear; more information about alerts are available here.

PubMed (medical and health sciences)
- You can generate RSS feeds after a search with no registration; steps to do so are provided here. Creating a free NCBI account allows you to save a search and then be notified by e-mail when those search results are updated.

Note: These databases provide complimentary access to bibliographic citations and abstracts for journal articles. Accessing full-text content generally requires payment (premium service), although one can often find free articles within the collections as well.