Keeping Up-to-date by Creating Alerts

PubMed’s Automatic E-Mailed Updates feature enables you to create a search to be run automatically in PubMed, or in any other Entrez database available from NCBI. The results are sent to your e-mail address. Whenever you perform a search in PubMed, you can use My NCBI to create an alert (Automatic E-Mailed Update).

To create an automatic e-mail update you must be signed into My NCBI.
Click on “Register” under My NCBI on the top right of the PubMed screen.

Saving Searches

After running your search in PubMed, click on “Save Search” link to the right of the query box. (Note: NLM recommends not including search #’s in your search statement).

Log into My NCBI if you are not already logged in. Your last search query will be displayed:

    

Finally, press the  button.

Note: In order to see the full text links (UC-eLinks) in your updates, first open another PubMed window, using this url: http://uclibs.org/PID/17708 (or go through the Bioscience Library home page). When you click on a link in your update e-mail, the UC-eLinks button should be present in the "abstract" display.