Setting up a Search Alert in
Current Contents Connect (ISI)
Current Contents Connect (CCC) is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books in subject areas ranging from social and behavioral sciences to medical and life sciences.
Automating searches in CCC relieves you of the time and effort it takes to re-create searches every time, consistently repeats the same search strategies used before, and alleviates the need to remember to review each and every resource. Due to speed and direct contact method, electronic alerts are much faster than other notification methods as the information comes directly to a registered user.Saving searches and setting up email alert notifications for search criteria require establishing and/or logging into aCCCuser profile.
To access Current Contents Connect (ISI)
- CCC is available from the IUB Libraries webpage (
- Access CCC by searching the database index by name or from the Databases A-Z list.
CCC new user registration
- From the ISI Web of Knowledge home page, click Register to begin setting up a new user account. (If you are within the Current Contents Connect interface, click Home at the top of the window to reach the Web of Knowledge home page.)
- Enter the required information (e-mail address and password) and click Submit Registration.
- On the registration confirmation page, click Continue to go to the main ISI Web of Knowledge page.
To set up a CCC Search Alert profile
- If you have not already done so, sign into ISI Web of Knowledge using your e-mail address and password that you provided during new user registration.
- From the ISI Web of Knowledge home page, click ISI Current Contents Connect. At the next screen, click CC Classic Search to begin searching CCC. [The instructions follow the Classic Search; see the CCC tutorial for instructions on other options]
- You may limit your search by removing (deselecting) unwanted Editions and/or Collections and by selecting a Time Frame of journal coverage for your search. Click Change Settings if you want tomake additional changes.
- Begin using the search options for subject, authors, or journal titles to create your search strategy using Boolean operators and keyword combinations/truncations. Include a Set Combination (a search that includes combinations of all previous searches in your Search History) as the last search in the sequence. Only the results of the last search statement are included in the alert.
- Click Save Historyto save your search history as an e-mail alert.
- Provide a search history Name and (optionally) a Description.
- Check the box for Send Me E-Mail Alerts and select the Alert Type (bibliography, abstract, full record) and E-Mail Format (plain text or HTML).
- Click Save(usually to server)to establish your search alert.
To modify a CCC Search Alert profile
- E-Mail Alerts are normally active for 24 weeks. You will be required to renew your alert(s) if you wish to continue receiving them. An expiry date of your alert will be included in your alert e-mail and you will also receive a reminder e-mail before the alert expires.
- From within the CCC interface, click CC Classic Search or Advanced Search.
- On the Search window, click Open Saved History.
- On the Open/Manage Saved Searches window, the search alert may be Renewed, the e-mail preference Settings may be changed, the alert may be Deleted, or the search itself may be revised/modified by clicking Open and then running the search and, optionally, adding or revising search keywords, etc., to be used in the search profile. Remember to Save any changes made to the search alert.
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