SciSearch Plus at LANL
Weekly Alerting Service
Creating an Alert

SciSearch at LANL: http://search.lanl.gov

Creating a User Name and Password

Select Register. You must be a registered user to use alerts and preferences.
Complete the registration form.

The SciSearch Plus registration form:

After completing the registration form, select Submit.
Enter your user name and password in the login form:

The SciSearch Plus login form:

Entering a Search

Select Search or Cited Search. Enter a search using authors, titles or keywords or enter a cited search using the name of a cited author.

If you want this search saved as an alert to be run weekly, select Save as alert/search. The Set-up alerts page allows you to create a new alert from the search you entered.

The SciSearch Plus set-up alerts page:

Keep in mind that very few articles are cited on a weekly basis. Expect zero results most weeks for cited alerts.
In the general alert, you can search for authors, words in titles and abstracts, journals, or institutions.

For example, you could set up an alert to find all new articles each week with Stanford in the author addresses.

You could find all articles published in a particular journal-the alert would deliver a table of contents via email.

Or you could find all new articles by an author.

Remember that you can use author's initials only. Two authors with the same last name and initials cannot be distinguished.

You can enter a subject search by looking for words in the title or abstract.

For automatic alerts, select Run alert weekly.

Select a mode of delivery-notification only, citation only, or citation and abstract.

Select a maximum number of citations to retrieve.
Enter an alert name.

The alert name appears in the subject line of the weekly email message you receive.

Each week you will get an email message either telling you that your alert is ready or delivering citations.

To change or discontinue an alert, select Login, then select Alerts/saved searches. On the alerts page, you can run, edit, suspend, or delete existing alerts.

If you use a public or shared computer, select Logout when you are done.

SciSearch Plus at LANL Weekly Alerting Service Creating an Alert

Creating a User Name and Password

Entering a Search

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