Tip #4 to improve searches in novoseek: Create email alerts

There is one handy tool in novoseek that helps you create email alerts to keep updated and be notified of new papers in which may appear the query previously entered. Indeed, my novoseek users can easily create email alerts any of the searches they perform on novoseek biomedical search engine. These email alerts can be created after a search has been performed and they can be easily edited from your personal account on novoseek. There are a lot of possible uses: simple search for a biomedical concept (eg: a disease such as “asthma“), complex searches that require the use of filters and may require more time to achieve (eg: “Methacholine & Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Clinical Trial articles in Pubmed“), for a journal you are reading regularly (eg: “Journal of the American Geriatrics Society“) or for an author relevant in your field (eg: “Collins, Francis S.“).

1. First, save the search you have performed.

In order to create email alerts, you must first perform a search. When the search results are satisfying and you want to create an email alert accordingly, simply click the “save search and create alerts” button at top of results page. A box pops up and offers you to custom the name for this saved search and to save it.


If you haven’t signed up for a free account on my novoseek or aren’t yet connected, feel free to do so in a few clicks.
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2. After saving the search, novoseek offers you to create an email alert for this very search. Click the “create alert” button.

3. Adjust the sending parameters

You are taken to your personnal account on novoseek in the “alert details” category where you can fine tune the alert details.



The parameters allow you to receive email alerts as follows:

• Once a month, and specify on which day
• Once a week, and specify on which day
• Every Day
• The format: HTML or text
• The report format: Title, Short Fragment Text, Sentences or Abstract, depending on the amount of information you want to read in your inbox
• The number of items you want to read in every email alert
• Specify if you want to receive an email even if there is no new articles for your search query
• The corpus you want the articles to be searched in: Pubmed, Free Full Text or U.S. Grants





4. Create email alerts and managing them allow you to consult your existing alerts anytime and adjust their parameters from your personal account on novoseek.

Simply go to the My saved search and alerts panel on your account. From there, you can modify the names of your saved searches as well as adjusting parameters by clicking on the clock image .

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