Creating a Current Awareness (SDI) Alert

A Current Awareness Alert is a search that runs automatically at a frequency you specify, based on a search strategy you have developed in one or more databases, and delivers the latest results to your desktop. A current awareness alert is also known as an SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information).

To set an alert:

  1. Select Create an Alert from an L-number's ellipsis (...) menu or click the bell icon.


  2. Configure the alert settings:

 

  1. Click the Save button. You may access and edit the alert in My Files > Alerts.

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Displaying and Formatting Results

Alerts Page