Search Alerts for Biological Abstracts (Web of Knowledge)

My Saved Searches / My Journals / Citation Alerts

The Web of Knowledge offers both the Web of Science Citation Indexes as well as Current Contents Connect. By registering and creating a profile on the Web of Knowledge site, you can save searches, have journal table of contents emailed to you, and set up citation alerts.

Saved Searches / Search Alerts

  1. From the Web of Knowledge home page, click Register and complete the details. Creating a profile will allow you to set up search alerts as well as to customize your Web of Knowledge preferences.
  2. You can create up to 25 searches that are stored in your profile and matched to new citations in the database(s) on a weekly basis.
  3. Conduct a search or combine multiple sets until you are satisfied with the results.
  4. Click the button for "Search History" at the top of the screen.
  5. Click on the "Save Search History" button to save the last set of your search.
  6. Enter a search history name of your choice, click on Send Me E-mail Alerts, enter your e-mail address (E-Mail alerts not available in CrossSearch).
  7. Choose your preferred Alert type, E-mail format (Field-tagged if you will download into RefWorks, otherwise choose Plain Text).
  8. Click on Save (to save your search history to the server) then Done. If you prefer, you can save the history locally to your computer to re-run the searches from there.

Tables of Contents

  1. Log in to your profile, if you are not already logged in.
  2. From the pull-down menu at the top of the screen select My Journal List, then click on Go.
  3. Click on Add More Journals.
  4. Search by keywords in Search Full Journal Titles, or select the titles from an alphabetical or subject list.
  5. Click on the box next to the journal title labeled Send Me Table of Contents E-mail Alert and/or Display on Home Page.
  6. Click on Submit Selections and Done.

Note: If you wish to receive the full record or the citation and abstracts for all the articles for a specific journal title (as opposed to just a table of contents list), you will have to execute a search for that journal title and then save the search history as in the Saved Searches section above

Citation Alerts

This feature allows you to receive an e-mail alert when articles you select are cited by new articles added to the database. To add an article to this list (and receive an e-mail each time it is cited):

  1. Log in to your profile, if you are not already logged in.
  2. Perform a search in Web of Science.
  3. When viewing a Full Record, click the "Create Citation Alert" button and then Done.
  4. Citation Alerts expire at the end of one year, unless you choose to renew them. To renew or modify Citation Alerts settings, go to "My Cited Articles" List.

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Last updated: 8/12/09