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Alerts and Current Awareness Services

Alerts are offered by journal publishers and other databases to help you keep up with recent publications related your research interests.

Google News: RSS Updates

Search for your topic in Google News.

At the bottom of your search results screen, right click to copy the RSS link and then add it to your RSS/News reader application.

Canadian Newsstand Alerts

Canadian Newsstand offers full text of Canadian newspapers, including Pacific, Black Press, and regional and national major dailies.

Note: news content appears in this database with a delay, usually of two days. For current daily coverage, many major papers offer RSS or email services from their websites.

Follow these steps to create a new search alert in Canadian Newsstand:

  1. Run the desired search from either the Basic or the Advanced page.
  2. On the Results page, click Set Up Alert.
    You will see the Set up Your Search Alert page.
  3. Complete the required information and click Save.
  4. You will see a confirmation page, summarizing your information. If the information is correct, click Done. Otherwise, you can click Delete this Alert to delete the alert.

Search Alerts on Recent Searches

Follow these steps to create an alert on a recent search:

  1. From the Basic or Advanced page, click the # Recent Searches link . Or, from the Results page, click the # Recent Searches link located near the bottom of the page in the grey Tools bar.
    You will see the Recent Searches page.
  2. Locate the desired search, and click the Set up Alert link next to the search.
    You will see the Set up Your Search Alert page.
  3. Complete the required information and click Save.
  4. You will see a confirmation page, summarizing your information. If the information is correct, click Done. Otherwise, you can click Delete this Alert to delete the alert.

Create a Publication Alert

Follow these steps to create a new publication alert:

  1. Locate the desired publication using Publication search.
  2. From the Publication page, click the Set up Alert link.
    You will see the Set up Your Publication Alert page.
  3. Complete the required information and click Save.
  4. You will see a confirmation page, summarizing your information. If the information is correct, click Done. Otherwise, you can click Delete this Alert to delete the alert.

Searches can also be constructed to retrieve search terms within a specific publication.

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