Current Awareness Apps
The following are apps specifically designed for keeping researchers and practitioners up to date on the most current scientific and medical literature.
Please note that while some apps offer the option of logging in using your institutional library account, you should use your judgement and only provide this information if you feel that it is safe to do so.
- Paperity
Paperity aggregates exclusively open access research, so you don't need an institutional library account and won't hit paywall, but you may also be missing certain publications in your field if they're not published as open access or deposited in an institutional repository. - Stork
Stork is available either as an email alert or as an app.
Topic or Search Alert
A topic or search alert allows you to receive alerts for articles that match your research interests. You will be alerted as new items that meet your search criteria are added to a database or electronic resource (e.g. PubMed or Google Scholar).
This type of alert allows you to receive the results of pre-programmed searches periodically. It usually involves doing a search in the database, looking at the search history and then saving the search as an alert.
If you have any questions or you would like some help setting up an alert, do not hesitate to contact me.
Journal Alerts (aka Table of Content alerts)
Do you have a favorite journal? Did you know that is was possible to receive an alert when a new issue is published?
There are two main ways to set up an alert for a journal:
- Sign up directly through the journal's website
- Creating am alert through PubMed (this will require a MyNCBI account)
If you have any questions or you would like some help setting up an alert, do not hesitate to contact me.
