Receive notice of new journal issues or new articles in your discipline through email alerts or RSS feeds. Alerts are provided by most journals and publishers. Also, most academic literature databases provide topic-specific alerts. If you only want to receive alerts from a couple journals, signing up for alerts for those titles is the best way to go.

If, however you would like to be alerted to new articles on a particular topic or from a range of journals, use the IngentaConnect alerting services which include both email alerts and RSS feeds. Email alerts, are sent once a week and include only records that match your criteria that have been added in the past week. IngentaConnect is one of the largest citation databases of research literature available. Searching is free to anyone, but the alerting service is available only to NOAA Western Region employees.

Note: The alerts include links back to an article's title, abstract, etc. in the IngentaConnect database. In a few cases, full text is available directly from IngentaConnect, but more often full text is available elsewhere as described in the NOAA Seattle journals database.

1. Print and fax or email a signup form (pdf) back to the library to have the library establish your account.

1. Register as a NOAA affiliated user. This creates your personal account. You will be automatically affiliated with NOAA if you are coming from your NOAA computer.
2. After submitting registration, refer to 'Manage my Ingenta' in the lower right of the screen.
3. 'New Issue alerts' and 'Search alerts' are the email based services.
4. To establish 'Search alerts' you will need conduct your searches first.  You will run your searches, save them and then add them to your alert list. After searching, click 'Search History' and save the needed searches.  You may then create alerts for any of the saved searches.
5. To establish 'New Issue alerts' click, 'New Issue alerts' on the right-hand pane, click the 'Add' tab, browse or search for the journal titles, click the check boxes next to the titles of interest and click 'Add' at the top or bottom of the column of checkboxes.

RSS feeds (What is this?)

To receive RSS feeds, you must download an RSS reader, most are free. Sage and Brief 1.2.3 (both for Firefox), and Google Reader are three examples of the many readers available. Many email clients now include RSS reader features as well. Visit your favorite journal or publisher web sites to sign up for other RSS feeds.

The following is a selected list of publishers and publications that provide free alerts whether you or your library subscribe to a publication or not.