Alerts
VA librarians can help you stay current with the newest publications and developments in your field through several alerting and partnership options. Depending on your needs, we can connect you with frequent literature alerts, customizable literature support, news searching services, and self-service journal issue alerts.
Literature alerts
Literature alerts are prepared by VA librarians to help staff stay current with new publications in selected subject areas. These alerts are developed in response to national VA priorities, publication volume, and the pace of new and breaking research in a field.
Some alerts are maintained as recurring national products, including a daily alert highlighting research about Veterans and research authored by VA staff. This alert supports awareness of all newly available VA-related research and is augmented by the selective research summaries published through VA Office of Research and Development News Briefs.
If a focused topic doesn’t warrant a national alert, or we have retired one you relied on, we can help you create your own specialized alert or provide a search strategy for you to run. All of our alerts are available through TEAMS channels.
- For the daily alert on “Veterans and VA-Authors” click here Veterans or by VA Authors
Click the links below to access the VA Library Literature Alerts public TEAMS channels. Once you’ve opened one, you can click the “see all channels” link (on the left) and then the “Show” button (on the right) to add that additional alerts to your personal list.
To leave a channel, click on the “See all channels” link at the bottom of the TEAMS channel, and then select the “Hide” button.
News alerts and news searching
We provide news searching support for users who need press coverage or news reporting on Veterans, VA topics, or related issues. Our news searching support can help identify broader media and press coverage that is not selected or curated by VA staff. This is different from the VA Press Room and different from Research News Briefs, which highlight selected VA-developed content and research summaries. We can also help users search licensed news resources, including subscription databases such as U.S. Newsstream and LexisNexis.
Journal issue alerts
If you want to receive an email notification when a new issue of your favorite journal is published, you can set up journal issue alerts yourself. This is the modern replacement for the former Table of Contents alert service, which was retired in favor of BrowZine-based alerts with broader journal coverage. Library staff can help you set up these alerts and walk you through the process if you would like assistance. Self-help instructions are here.
