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Alerting services

Alerting services help you keep up to date with chosen publications and subjects. 

There is a range of alerting tools available, each with different functionality.

The Knowledge Network Library Search

Discover how to save searches and set up alerts from Library Search.

Saving searches, results and exporting references 

Individual database alerts

Databases enable users to set up email alerts. These include saved searches and journal table of content alerts. This usually requires users to set up a personal account on the site.  

Popular suppliers: 

Ovid (Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, Social Policy and Practice, ERIC, HMIC, MIDIRS,  AMED)

EBSCOhost (CINAHL, Health Business Elite) 

Proquest (ASSIA, Public Health)

Read by QxMD

This app and website allows users to set up searches, create collections and link through to full-text articles, including NHS Scotland subscriptions, from PubMed. Requires users to set up a personal account on the site.

Read by QxMD

Journal alerts

You can set up alerts to journals from the publisher website. This usually requires setting up a personal account. For more information we recommend visiting the publisher's website.

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