The short answer is: RSS feeds are no longer necessary – now there's a better, more streamlined solution. This FAQ will show you how to use a function called Alerts that is part of the place to start, the Discovery GALILEO service. Discovery contains all of the citations from all of the online research services that Piedmont University licenses. Citations for new issues of journal and magazines are usually added to Discovery monthly.
Here's how to create an Alert whenever new citations are added to a journal you want to follow.
1. Go to the Library's homepage library.piedmont.edu. Look to the right side for Publication Finder under Quick Links and click that link.
2. When Publication Finder opens, search for your journal in the Search Title field. The example uses the Journal of Special Education. The search suggestions can help you distinguish among similar titles.
Publication Finder has listings for magazines and journals, ebooks, and streaming media. You may want to click the Limit To field to select Peer-reviewed Journals.
If you're not on-campus, be prepared to login to Publication Finder
3. Review the result list and when you've found the journal you want to follow, take note of the information under the title. Look for the ISSN, the International Standard Serial Number, a unique identifier for your journal. Highlight and copy the ISSN to the clipboard. If there is more than one ISSN, choose the first one.
4. Go back to the Library's homepage, put the ISSN in the Discovery GALILEO search field, and press Enter.
5. Discovery does a search for your journal and returns a results list of all citations from the journal, beginning with the most recent first. You should now login to your personal myEBSCO account so you'll be able to save your Alert later
6. Click on the myEBSCO icon in the top right corner and login using your University username and password. If you don't already have a myEBSCO account, an account will be created for you automatically as you login.
7. Once logged in, rou can now Create an Alert that will let you know when new citations are added.
Look to the right side of the display for the word Relevance and then the box with 3 vertical dots beside it. Click on the 3-dots icon and a dropdown menu appears that has 2 choices: Save Search and Create Alert. Click Create Alert.
8. Here is what the Create Search Alert screen looks like when it opens.
9. You can now make changes like giving the Alert a name that is meaningful to you. Then scroll to the bottom and click Create Alert.
Whenever a new citation appears that matches your search, myEBSCO will send you an email notification.
You should be aware that Alerts expire after one year. You will receive a notice before expiration and you can renew your alert for another year.
10. When the Alert Creation dialog closes, you'll be returned to the search results. It's good idea to go back to the 3-dots-box and save the search you just created.
11. When you've saved your search, a process that is very similar to Alert creation, you can return to it and run it whenever you'd like.
12. You can access your saved Searches and Alerts from the My Dashboard area on the left side of the Discovery screen.
