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CINAHL Ultimate: Setting up an alert

User guide for CINAHL Complete (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) and Medline Package

Setting up an alert

CINAHL Ultimate has an alert feature which, when set up, will send notifications of any new publications meeting the search criteria that become available in the database.

To create an alert in CINAHL Ultimate, sign in to your account and select Save searches/Alerts under the search boxes.

Enter the required details in the form. 

Give the search a name that you will recognise

Choose Alert from the save search options and how often you would like to receive alerts and the format.

Add a subject to the subject line, and when finished, choose Save.