Alerts / Current Awareness

Alerts on the scientific literature are a critical need for many constituents within your organization. QUOSA products:

  • Streamline the process of providing and managing alerts and current awareness for your customers
  • Provide more targeted, more effective alerts in formats that are easier-to-use and meet your workflow needs

Today, you may provide these alerts by setting up direct emails from your preferred search platform. But, such alerts pile up in cluttered email inboxes. At best, they may offer cumbersome or incomplete direct access to full-text articles and no full-text archiving. They lack full-text searchability, which would ease monitoring by your users and provide them with a better means for distinguishing the most relevant information. The alerts do not support team review and tagging or knowledge creation and sharing. In addition, information from multiple sources can mean multiple, fragmented alerts for your users when you lack an easy means of combining results from different sources.

The benefits of using QUOSA to manage alerts
Capture alert results automatically on a schedule you establish Run alerts automatically and consolidate results from individual or multiple sources (such as PubMed, OvidSP, Embase.com, ...). Results are available immediately in one central location, the Virtual Library, all on a schedule you control. Process large batches of queries imported from Excel spreadsheets. Automatically connect users to this content with RSS feeds or dynamic links (clickable links in Web pages or emails that run embedded queries and deliver a list of search results from the Virtual Library). Send alert results via email, through customized summaries using QUOSA's flexible HTML report format, or via your Web-browser interface. The Virtual Library supports full-text search, easy tagging, export, and sharing from an always current archive for the specific product, project, or group.
Support copyright compliance within your organization Ensure copyright compliance while making all documents fully discoverable with document-level access control and automated handling. Please contact us to learn more about the option for full integration with the RightSphere knowledgebase solution from the Copyright Clearance Center.
Monitor the acquisition of articles through document delivery Prevent ordering the same article from document delivery multiple times with DocFlow. As QUOSA retrieves alert results, it will simultaneously check against articles already in the Virtual Library.