Librarycasting SE

You can setup RSS feeds for searches (search alerts) that you run in Web of Science / Science Citation Index. This means automatic updates for specific searches that you have run in WOS. A similar feature is available for monitoring the citation of a specific article by other authors (citation alerts).

For search alerts, access this feature by running the search of interest, then click on the Search History button near the top of the page, then click Save History button . You'll be prompted to login (click the register link to setup a new user name and password). The Save Search History page (for e-mail alerts setup) will appear, enter a History Name and click the Save button; leave the A Server Save Confirmation page will appear with an orange XML button; this is the RSS feed for the search.

Citation alerts work by opening the record for the specific article of interest, clicking the Create Citation Alert button on the right, and login as needed. The XML button for the feed appears in the Citation Alerts Save Confirmation page.

Note that the alerts will also go to an e-mail box, there is no option to only receive the RSS alert.

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This Thursday, the workshop will introduce three important tools for molecular structure viewing and searching: Scifinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service), Crossfire Commander for Beilstein / Gmelin (MDL), and Entrez Structure / Cn3D (National Center for Biotechnology Information). More info ...

Time & Location: Thursday, October 26, 2006, 11:00 - 12:00 noon, Cabell Library 3rd floor instruction classroom.

Register for the workshop

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Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, has just started a new podcast this October, featuring highlights from the print/online version...

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PubMed makes it easier to stay current with some of its literature and bioinformatics databases by providing several news feeds in the RSS 2.0 format. These feeds, available at the NCBI website, describe the latest enhancements in the PubMed database, the PubMed Central full-text repository, new entries in the Unigene and Homologene databases, etc. There is also a brief FAQ page about PubMed RSS. If you would like to learn more about using RSS to stay current with research literature, there's a video tutorial (3 minutes, 19 seconds) about this topic.

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