How do I create alerts in Knovel?
Last updated on September 02, 2025
Alerts are search queries saved to My Knovel which are re-executed when new content is uploaded to Knovel. If new content matches your query, you will be notified by email. The email can contain up to five search results / snippets, and includes a link to ‘View All Results’ that takes you to the Knovel result(s).
To create an alert you are required to be logged in to Knovel.
How
Each alert will be set up for all of the following content types:
- Book title
- Database title
- Book section
- Conference proceedings
- Journal article
- Interactive equation
- Engineering case
You can create your alert starting from:
- The Search Results page
- Run a basic search.
- From the Search Results page, click 'Save Search Query' in the top menu bar.
- From within the Save Panel, select a previously created Folder, or create a New Folder.
- Click 'Add this Resource'.
- Click 'Go to My Knovel' at the bottom of the Save Panel.
- From the Folder in My Knovel, hover your mouse over the hyperlink of the desired search query.
- Click the bell/‘Alert’ icon in the horizontal list of icons and choose from the following options in the pop-up:
- Send Alert Frequency: Weekly or monthly.
- Email only when non-zero results: Toggle Yes/No.
- Status: Disable the alert when you will be away from your email access.
- Click 'Save Alert'.
- A previously saved search
- Go to My Knovel.
- From My Knovel, hover your mouse over the hyperlink of the desired search query.
- Click the bell/‘Alert’ icon in the horizontal list of icons and choose from the following options in the pop-up:
- Send Alert Frequency: Weekly or monthly.
- Email only when non-zero results: Toggle Yes/No.
- Status: Disable the alert when you will be away from your email access.
Please note: You can set up to 20 alerts. Setting up multiple alert recipients is not currently possible, but may be considered for a future release.
From the My Knovel home page you can:
- View your alerts
To view your alerts, click ‘My Alerts’ in the upper left of the page.
- Edit your alerts
- Click ‘My Alerts’ in the upper left of the page.
- Click the pencil icon of the alert to be edited.
- Edit accordingly:
- Content type: Any new Technical References (books), any new Journal content, or both.
- Send Alert Notifications: Weekly or monthly.
- Email only when non-zero results: Toggle on/off.
- Status: Disable the alert when you will be away from your email access.
- Click ‘Save Alert’.
- Delete an alert
- Click ‘My Alerts’ in the upper left of the page.
- Click the garbage can of the alert to be deleted.
- Click ‘Yes, Delete this Alert’ button to confirm deletion.
Please note: Deleting an alert does not delete your saved search.
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