PubMed Alerts
Name a disease, target, or method. Get a ping when a public journal or preprint page posts it.
PubMed alerts surface new papers on a disease, target, or method you named.
My NCBI still mails MEDLINE hits. That is fine for a monthly sweep. It is late the morning a journal posts an early release and your saved query is still waiting on MeSH. It is also noisy. Share one heading with a paper you never wanted and the folder fills until you mute it.
AyeWatch does not search PubMed as a database. It watches public publisher pages, preprint lists, and topics. Keep My NCBI for the archive. Use AyeWatch for the live page MEDLINE has not caught yet.
Where MEDLINE mail lags
Journals post PDFs on their own sites first. bioRxiv and medRxiv post before MEDLINE exists. A university press note can name the paper while your NCBI mail is still empty. Those are public URLs. They are not the MEDLINE index, and AyeWatch will not pretend they are.
It is not Google Scholar's citation graph either. If you need "cited by" counts, stay in Scholar. If you need the PDF the day the publisher flipped it live, watch the page. The literature monitoring guide is the longer version of that split.
Watch the journal, then name the biology
Paste the early-release or current-issue URL for the journal that actually decides your week. Paste a lab publications page if that group ships links before the journal does. Then add a topic in the language you already use at group meeting. "New papers on GLP-1 heart-failure outcomes after semaglutide." A keyword for "diabetes" will not do that job.
Pipeline news is a different URL. Pair literature with the clinical trial pipeline guide if you also follow NCT records. AyeWatch for biotech and AyeWatch for researchers if you want the role pages. Templates for a starter topic.
What this will not replace
EndNote still holds the library. A systematic review still needs a protocol. AyeWatch will not tell you a paper is indexed, will not score citations, and will not rank journals. It will tell you the public page changed in a way that matches the disease, target, or method you named. You still open the PDF.
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Free Preview is six lifetime runs across three topics. No card. Try one journal URL and one topic. Pro is $9/month. Push if a readout can change a collaboration. Email if you batch papers on Friday.
Grant cycles are a separate watch. See NIH and SBA grant monitoring if FOAs are how you miss mornings. Start with the journal homepage you already refresh. If the first alert names a paper you would have wanted, add the topic.