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Alerting Services

Keep up to date with the latest research in your area of focus.
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This guide is designed to help you:

  • Understand the benefits of alerting services
  • Understand the different kinds of alerting services available 
  • Create alerts in relevant databases and alerting tools

Why use alerting services?

New references on your topic will continue to be published as you are researching or writing your thesis.

Keeping up to date with the latest research is essential. Automating this process by setting up alerts will save time, effort and assist you to stay up to date with research in your area of expertise.

Most databases allow for various types of alerts.

Researcher development: alerting services overview

For a quick introduction to setting up Alerts review this self-learning module.

Upon completing the session, you will have a basic understanding of some of the different ways you can track new research to stay current.