Creating Updates/Alerts in Article Citation Databases
CDL's "current awareness" or "selective dissemination of information (SDI)" service, Update, allows you to create and retrieve automatic weekly updates of searches in the Melvyl Catalog and most CDL-hosted databases.
Since the CDL-hosted versions of the article citation databases were retired on December 31, 2002, you must now set up any Updates in the vendor's version of these databases.
| Information on Vendors' Updates/Alerts features | ||
|---|---|---|
| Database (Vendor) | Update/Alert feature | Notes |
| ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) | Not available | Available in CDL's version; some functionality has been lost. |
| Anthropological Literature (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Art Abstracts (Wilson) | User-initiated alerts | Click on the Search History button and then "save" the searches you will want to re-run in the future (up to 6 months). |
| Art Retrospective (Wilson) | User-initiated alerts | Click on the Search History button and then "save" the searches you will want to re-run in the future (up to 6 months). |
| ArticleFirst (OCLC) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Bibliography of the History of Art (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| BIOSIS Previews (Ovid) | Ovid AutoAlerts [RTF, PDF] | |
| Chicano (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Computer Database (Gale) | InfoTrac InfoMarks [PDF] | InfoMarks (User-initiated alerts) |
| Current Contents (Ovid) | Ovid AutoAlerts [RTF, PDF] | |
| Ei Compendex*Plus (Ovid) | Ovid AutoAlerts [RTF, PDF] | |
| English Short Title Catalogue (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| ERIC (CSA) | Weekly Email Alerts (Updates) [HTML]* | |
| Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale) | InfoTrac InfoMarks [PDF] | InfoMarks (User-initiated alerts) |
| FRANCIS (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| GeoRef (CSA) | Weekly Email Alerts (Updates) [HTML]* | |
| History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| INSPEC (Ovid) | Ovid AutoAlerts [RTF, PDF] | |
| MLA International Bibliography (Ovid) | Ovid AutoAlerts [RTF, PDF] | |
| National Newspaper Index (Gale) | InfoTrac InfoMarks [PDF] | InfoMarks (User-initiated alerts) |
| PAIS International (CSA) | Weekly Email Alerts (Updates) [HTML]* | |
| PapersFirst (OCLC) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| Proceedings (OCLC) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| PsycINFO (CSA) | Weekly Email Alerts (Updates) [HTML]* | |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (NISC) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| RLIN Bibliographic File (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs (RLG) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
| WorldCat (OCLC) | Not available | Not available in CDL's version; no functionality has been lost. |
*Although this users guide explains how to set up an Alert in the GeoRef database, the procedures are the same in any of the CSA databases.
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