Is there a website that monitors scientific publications for keywords?

I'm currently writing a master thesis in media management and I'm struggling to stay up to date with scientific publications in that field, since there are several journals that cover the subject matter directly, but also thematically more remote publications (e. g. about economics) that might have interesting articles in them.


What I'm looking therefore is a service that allows me to monitor a selectable group of scientific publications. It should automatically send me an email alert or provide an rss-feed, once certain keywords appear in any of the selected publications.


Is there such a service? And if so, what is it called?


Thank you for your help, Bjoern


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becky
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Guess what's new at ISI Web of Knowledge as of July 2006? RSS feed now avialable Laughing

I don't think it's free, so try to get your supervisor so pay for it.
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I'm not femiliar with such a service, but I think you can use Google Alerts to do something like that. I don't know how many publications you want to search and how many search terms you have, but I think it could work if you don't have too many of either.

If you use the search term whale site:www.sciencemag.org Google Alerts will send you an e-mail when an article with the word "whale" in it appears in the Science Magazine website. If these magazines are kept up-to-date I think it should work pretty well.
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Hi,

 thanks for the tip - I'm aware of Google Alerts, but I find them a little difficult to use for the task at hand for two reasons:

1) I'd love to scan several dozens of magazines (and in the best case be pointed to new publications that appear on the market)  which makes Google Alerts difficult to use, as you've pointed out in your answer.

2) From quite a few publications I know that they do not publish their content on the web, sometimes not even their current table of content.

Therefore, I would much prefer a specific science publications focused website. But I will keep your tip in mind, in case nothing specific turns up. (In that case, at least, we've created a new business opportunity here :-)

 Best regards, Bjoern

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Yeah, sounds like it's not going to work.  Did you notice becky's suggestion? I think you both were typing your messages at the same time and you missed her post.
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Hi Becky,

 thanks for the heads-up - that's cool news! 

Fortunately our university has an ISI Web of Knowledge Subscription, but the RSS-feeds do not work for me - my reader can't connect to the system.

Does it work for you?

In addition, I find it kind of annoying that you need an extra"Current Contents Connect" subscription to be able to select journals you'd like to monitor. So if anyone else is on to an alternative, I'd still be happy to hear about it.

 Best regards, Bjoern

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