Saved Search Alerts
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) - is the name of the platform (vendor) that hosts the databases listed below. The interface will look the same when searching all of the following databases and the process for setting up an alert will be the same.
- AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts
- ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
- Biological Sciences
- Biology Digest
- Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
- Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
- Conference Papers Index
- CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX
- Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
- Electronics and Communications Abstracts
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt
- ERIC
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
- MEDLINE
- Meteorological & Geoastrophycial Abstracts
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
- NTIS
- Oceanic Abstracts
- PAIS Archive
- PAIS International
- Plant Science
- Safety Science and Risk
- Social Services Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts
- Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
- TOXLINE
- Zoological Record Plus
- Perform a search you would like to save.
- From the results page, click on “Alerts” at the top right corner of the page.
- You will be prompted for an email and password, new users click on “New user Create a personal profile.”
- Click on “Save as an Alert.”
- The alert will be set to run for several months, and can be renewed, edited, or deleted — at this time there is no mechanism to change the frequency.

