Saved Searches

The following is a list of online services that perform searches of databases on a regular basis and produce a report for users. You may find these services useful if you periodically perform the same search, or if you would like to be notified of new articles in your field of interest. Certain databases may be restricted to UIC users.

Services which search PubMed/MEDLINE

• PubMed
  

  PubMed offers a My NCBI feature to store search strategies.

• PubCrawler
  

  PubCrawler is a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the MEDLINE (PubMed) and GenBank databases. The results are presented as an HTML Web page or you can receive them via e-mail.

• BioMail
  

  BioMail regularly searches MEDLINE through PubMed and e-mails results to users.

Other Article Index Databases

These services allow you to run a search repeatedly in online article indexes to find citations on a specific topic.

• OVID Databases
  

  Multiple databases are available through the OVID search interface. These include: AARP AGELINE; CINAHL; EBM Reviews; ERIC; Health and Psychosocial Instruments; International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; MEDLINE; and PsycINFO.

  To set up a saved search for an OVID database, follow the instructions below:

  1. After a search has been done in OVID - users can opt to store searches and have results automatically emailed. Perform your search as normal in the OVID Database that you select. When you are finished entering in the search strategy that you would like to save, click on "Save Search / Alert" link. NOTE: although your entire search history will be saved you will only get results on the basis of what is in the last line of your search history.
  2. Enter in your user name and password that you have created. If you have not created one, you may do so at this point.
  3. Enter in a name for the search and under TYPE, select "permanent" if you want to log in to run the search or select "AutoAlert SDI" if you want to receive regular emails of new citations. If you select Auto Alert SDI you must also enter your email address and indicate the frequency that you would like the alerts.
• Web of Knowledge
  

  Web of Knowledge offers the option to save a search in any of its databases. These databases include Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index), Biological Abstracts, and Current Contents. UIC users have the option of setting up a search that is run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The results are then emailed to you. You can also establish a Cited Articles search so that you are notified whenever your own publications are cited by someone else. Additionally, users can create a table of contents alert for their favorite journals.

  You can find more information about this by selecting the HELP option near the top of the main Web of Knowledge page. To register for this service please see the ISI New User Registration .

• EMBASE
  

  The EMBASE database also offers options to save searches and to receive email alerts. Selections for these options can be found on the left sidebar menu of the main screen.

Other Current Awareness Services

• Essential Evidence Plus (formerly InfoPOEMS - Daily POEMS Database)
  

  This system provides brief synthesized information to clinicians. UIC users can opt to have the daily POEMS emailed directly to them. To set up this feature, just send an email to Deb Blecic (dblecic@uic.edu) requesting to receive DailyPOEMS by email.

• Elsevier ScienceDirect
  

  Elsevier Science provides a number of alerting and awareness services in support of its journal publishing program. Some services are free, while others are only available to subscribing institutions. Select "Alerts" from the top menu bar. You can then register for a username and password.

• Faculty of 1000
  

  Faculty of 1000 is an online research service that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers. You may establish your own account (My Faculty 1000) and save searches. Results will be emailed to you on a regular basis.

• Alert Services for Funding Resources
  

  A list produced by the University of Washington which provides access to various alerting services for grants and funding opportunities.

Services for Finding News Items Relating to Health & Medicine

• MD Consult
  

  This resource has several Current Awareness sections. On the main page for the system is a section called What's New Today which lists a news item, This Week in Medicine, In This Week's Journals, and more. There are also selections off the main menu for News and Drugs, both of which list current health-related issues in the news.

• MedlinePlus
  

  This resource was created and is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. It provides basic health information and is a meta-site for links to credible websites on a variety of health topics. It also includes a selection for News which includes news articles from Reuters Health Information and HealthDay as well as recent press releases from major medical organizations.

• AccessMedicine
  

  This resources provides access to online medical textbooks. There is also a selection for Health News on the top menu bar. This provides information from the Center for the Advancement of Health which includes a section on "What Your Patients Are Reading" and "Systematic Reviews in the News".