- Ovid:
- has Contents alerts which work immediately.
- I went in again this evening to try to create an RSS search alert which might actually send me results ("trees" perhaps not being general enough and "effects" apparently being a stop word, I thought I might try "properties"), and couldn't find my way back to create a search alert at all. So I went back to the instructions I'd written for our postgrads on how to do it... and discovered that the RSS button isn't now where it was two days ago. I have screenshots so I know I'm not going mad:
Before:
After:
Yes, I've tried both logged in and logged out.
- has Contents alerts which work immediately.
- ProQuest:
- I commented on Tame The Web that I hadn't received any alerts yet from ProQuest; I now have.
- Scitation provides alerts:
- on addition to the database
- search alerts
- by RSS - but the RSS link has to be manually edited if you're using the database through a proxy server
- on addition to the database
- Standards New Zealand:
- also has Topic alerts
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Database RSS alerts - Errata
A few things I missed the first time around:
