Alerts: Search, Table of Contents, & Citation Alerts: ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

• ScienceDirect Personal Accounts

• Search Alerts in ScienceDirect

• Journal/Table of Contents Alerts in ScienceDirect
• RSS Alerts in ScienceDirect

You will need to create a personal account in ScienceDirect to create search alerts. 

To create a ScienceDirect account:

1. Click Register at the top right of the search screen.

2. On the Welcome Screen, enter your email. Click Continue.

3. On the Registration screen, add your name and create a password. Click Register

1. Sign into your ScienceDirect personal account in order to create search alerts.
    
2. Conduct your search.
   
3. Click Set search alert at the left of the results list. 
    
4. Fill in the Save search alert form. Click Save
    
5. You will receive a confirmation that the alert has been saved.

You will need to be logged in to your ScienceDirect account to create a journal/table of contents alert.   

1. To create a journal/table of contents alert in ScienceDirect, click Journals & Books from ScienceDirect search page. 
   
    
2. From the Browse Journals and Books screen, enter a particular journal title or choose one from the a-z list.
    
3. Click the title of the journal you are interested in. On the resulting page, click Articles & Issues. Click Set up journal alerts from the options displayed under Articles & Issues. Fill out Save journal alert form. Click Save
   
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4. You will get a confirmation notice that you are following that journal.  Click Close.

Sign in to your ScienceDirect personal account to create journal/table of contents RSS feeds.

To create an RSS feed for a journal/table of contents alert:

1. To create a journal/table of contents alert in ScienceDirect, click Journals & Books from ScienceDirect search page. 
2. From the Browse Journals and Books screen, enter a particular journal title or choose one from the a-z list. 
    
3. Click the title of the journal you are interested in. On the resulting page, click Articles & Issues. Click Set up journal alerts from the options displayed under Articles & Issues. Fill out Save journal alert form. Click Save
   
   
   
4. Click RSS from the options on the menu from Articles and Issues.
    
5. Copy and paste the URL into RSS reader. 

Click here for more information about RSS feeds in ScienceDirect.