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ASBMB Today, September 2002 [In the January issue, ASBMB Today introduced the new "portal" site from Stanford's HighWire Press, which allows you to search all of Medline plus over 340 journals' full-text at once -- including the JBC, of course! We began a monthly series of short articles highlighting tools or features of this new site for researchers' sore eyes. The new site is at http://highwire.stanford.edu ] When HighWire interviewed scientists about their needs for information retrieval and access, one of the major points was that researchers and their labs could scan only a few dozen journals among a lab team, in terms of examining them for important articles. One lab reported on an informal time-limited study in which they found 30 articles related to the lab's work in their "usual" journals; but when they looked broadly across many, many other journals they found another 30 articles that were related and would have been overlooked. HighWire's new portal has a solution to this problem: "CiteTrack," a free alerting service that can alert you on articles that match your interests, by automatically looking across all new content in Medline every day, and all of the new full-text in over 340 HighWire-based journals every day. You can focus on your core journals, and let CiteTrack track hundreds and thousands of other journals for you. If CiteTrack finds a match with a term or author you've specified, you will get an email the same day the article is published. The email gives you the full author/title/citation to the newly-published article, plus a hyperlink to get you right to it. You can register as many CiteTrack alerts as you'd like - each with a different set of keywords and/or authors. You can also be alerted when articles of interest to you are cited -- and see who cited them -- - perhaps citations to your own articles! You can tell CiteTrack to look only in particular journals (perhaps the ones in your journal club), in journals that publish in particular topics, in all 340+ HighWire-based journals' full-text, or across all of HighWire plus all of Medline. In the future, you'll be able to tell CiteTrack that you are interested in certain topics - defined by detailed subject categories - and have CiteTrack tell you whenever new content is published in your favorite categories. This will allow you to match your general interests, without having to figure out all the possible keywords and authors that determine those interests. You'll be able to receive a daily or weekly list of articles published - the table of contents for a "virtual journal" that matches just your interests. How to Set Up CiteTrack Alerts: Just click on the My Email Alerts link on the HighWire home page at http://highwire.stanford.edu. From the My Email Alerts page you can create an alert by author, by words in the title or abstract, or by text anywhere in an article. The My Email Alerts page also shows you all your email tables of contents alerts ("eTOCs"), and soon will begin allow you to sign up for having content delivered to your Palm/PDA. Figure 1 shows the summary of alerts you will get on the My Email Alerts page; if you look for the links to "ADD" an alert you'll see how to create a new alert. Figure 2 shows how easy it is to add an alert once you've clicked on the ADD link from the previous page: you just fill out a form as if you were going to do a search! In fact, this is the way CiteTrack works: it does a search for you, and whenever it retrieves something it hasn't retrieved before, it emails you. (The list of topics is abbreviated in Figure 2.) If you are not a registered user of the HighWire portal or haven't signed in when you click on My Alerts, you'll see a link to register or sign in. Registration takes only a minute or two; its fast and free. And once you've registered, other new features discussed in this series become available to you, such as "My Favorite Journals" described in the May issue (URL: http://highwire.stanford.edu/inthepress/asbmb/asbmb_2002may.dtl).
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