How to Set Up a ScienceDirect Alert

A ScienceDirect Alert allows you to receive email notification of new content that matches your research interests for hundreds of journals from Elsevier's ScienceDirect. You can create a Search Alert, Journal Issue Alert and Citation Alert, as well as create a Create a Favorite Journal List which you can browse and search.

1. From either on or off campus, connect to ScienceDirect.
2. Select the button "My Alerts."
3. Select "Register Now" on the right side of the page.
4. Fill out the registration form. When completed, select "done."
5. Select "login now" to enter ScienceDirect with your new account. Please note that user names and passwords are case sensitive.
6. The next screen offers you the option to create three types of alerts:
• Search Alerts: you can run a search, then save it, and receive email daily, weekly or monthly when this search retrieves new results
• Journal Issue Alerts: you will receive email notification when a new issue of a particular journal becomes available
• Citation Alerts: you will receive email notification when a selected article is cited by new articles added to ScienceDirect