Hinze, Annika2008-11-262008-11-262005Hinze, A. (2005). Issues in usability studies for alerting in digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8). Retrieved November 27, 2008 from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/khoo/07khoo.htmlhttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/1475Alerting Services inform users of Digital Libraries about new or changed content of their favorite Digital Library collection, or about new documents discussing a topic they are interested in. The users define their interest in form of subscriptions; the alerting service filters new or changed documents against all user subscriptions and notifies the users about matches found. To define their subscriptions, users may, e.g., select a journal from a list, or a topic from a classification. Few services support the definition of IR type queries, or advanced combinations of queries and metadata selections.application/pdfenThis article has been published in the journal: D-Lib Magazine.computer sciencealerting systemdigital libraryJournal Article