ingenta Reveal

Warning: Ingenta/Uncover Reveal will be discontinued after 12/31/03

After careful analysis, the UW Libraries has decided to discontinue the ingenta Reveal service, effective December 31, 2003. After that date, you will no longer receive any updates that you may have been receiving up to now.

We are taking this action because of budget constraints (the cancellation will save $8,250 this year), user complaints about the service, and the availability of alternatives. For instance, you may be interested in Current Contents to set up automatic email updating. Brief instructions for doing so are available on Healthlinks .

You will find options for some other databases and alerting services on Library web pages for:
Biomedical researchers
 Other subject areas

 Please contact us if you would like additional information or help in exploring or setting up alternative alerting services.

Following are the instructions for setting up or managing ingenta/Reveal accounts. These instructions will be removed after 12/31/03.

Table of Contents:

WHAT IS ingenta Uncover Plus and ingenta Reveal Research Alerts?

ingenta Uncover Plus is a database of over 11 million citations from more than 26,000 journals, with coverage back to 1988. It includes journals from the former Uncover database.

ingenta Reveal Research Alerts Service is an electronic mail alerting service that keeps you up to date on the latest articles published in your field. ingenta Reveal sends citations and table of contents listings that fit your personal subject and journal profile directly to your email account once a week. ingenta Reveal users may select up to 50 journal titles to receive table of contents notification and also have up to 25 search strategies run weekly against all new articles added to the ingenta database. The service is FREE to UW faculty, staff and students.

Many of the journals indexed in ingenta are available at the UW Libraries. Check the UW Libraries Catalog for library location, the Information Gateway Electronic Journals page, or use the order form to request copies of articles.

SETTING UP A PERSONAL PROFILE ACCOUNT

  1. Connect to http://www.ingenta.com/
  2. Click on "Sign Up Now" [sign up for your personal features and home page]
  3. Click on "Personal" [personal registration]
  4. Fill out all fields on the form that are marked with an asterisk (*). [compulsory fields: name, email, street address, city, country, username, and password]
  5. Leave a check-mark in the box marked "I would like full-text access to my institution's/company's subscriptions."
  6. Click "Continue" to proceed with registration.

ADDING and DELETING SEARCH STRATEGIES

You may store up to 25 keyword or author searches.

  1. Connect to http://www.ingenta.com/
  2. Go to "My Files" on the left-hand navigation bar and click "Manage My ingenta"
  3. Click "My Research Alerts" to subscribe to the Research Alerts Service
  4. Click "Search ingenta to set up your search alerts.
  5. Fill in the Search Options on the form (keywords, author, publication title, etc.) and press "Search".
    1. Multiple keywords can be linked using a Boolean connector such as "and"or "or". "And" narrows a search by adding additional search terms. "Or"expands a search to include synonyms.

      Use parentheses to group synonymous concepts together. The asterisk (*)is a truncation symbol so "bik*" will search for all words beginning withthe root word "bik" such as "bike," "bikes," "biking",etc.

      mountain and (bicycling or bik*)

  6. Go to "My Files" on the left-hand navigation bar and click "Saved Searches".
  7. Click "Add to Alerts" button next to your search string to activate a search alert.
  8. Put a check-mark in the "Save?" box next to your search string if you would like to save your search.
  9. Highlight "My Saved Searches" folder in the "Save In" pull-down menu and then click "Save".

To delete a saved search, go to your "Saved Searches" page and click the "Delete" button next to the saved search you wish to delete.
Note: Search alerts remain in effect even after you have deleted the corresponding saved search. To delete a search alert, click on the "Manage Search Alerts" link on your "Saved Searches" page. Then click on the "Delete" button next to the search alert you wish to delete.

ADDING and DELETING JOURNAL TITLES

You may store up to 50 journal titles for table of contents delivery.

  1. Connect to http://www.ingenta.com/
  2. Click on "My Table of Contents"
  3. Select a publication: either type in a word in the publication title and click "Search" or select a publication from the pull-down menu and click "Go".
  4. Put a check-mark next to the publication you are interested in and click "Add Selected to List".
  5. Click "OK" when you are finished. This will return you to your "Manage My ingenta" page.

To delete any titles, begin at "My TOC Alerts" page

  1. Click "My Table of Contents"
  2. To remove selected titles: place a check-mark next to each title you wish to delete from your list and click "Remove Selected".
  3. To remove all titles: Click "Remove All"
  4. Click "OK" when are are finished. This will return you to your "Manage My ingenta" page.

Former UnCover Users

username and password:

You can login to ingenta using your UnCover profile ID and password in the username and password fields. If you are presented with a registration form, this is because ingenta needs some more information from you to add to your existing profile. If you get a message that your username and password is not recognized, you should enter your password in uppercase. If you have forgotten your password, you will need to email the ingent help desk at: help@ingenta.com.

Reveal research alerts and table of contents (TOC) alerts:

If you have existing alerts set up in UnCover, these have been transferred over and will continue unless you choose to delete them. See Deleting Search Strategies or Deleting Journal Titles for more help.

 

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Last modified: Thursday November 13, 2003