Help topic: Comments alerts

Some Cambridge journals are encouraging readers to respond online to individual articles.

If a journal is accepting comments in this way, a link to 'Comments' will be displayed beneath the article details in the table of contents or search results listing. (You can also access this feature from the article's abstract or the full text HTML.) The number of comments already made about the article is shown in brackets next to the 'Comments' link. Note: to have access to this feature you need to be a registered user and have logged in and have access to the full text of the article via either a library, society or personal subscription.

To receive alerts when new comments are posted about a particular article, you can either

- click on the 'Comments' link that appears beneath the article details and then, in the new window, click on 'New comment alert'

or

- go to the article's abstract of full text HTML and click on the 'Comments alert' link that appears in the top right-hand menu.

Clicking on any of these links takes you to 'My Comments Alerts' where you will see details of the article you are interested in displayed. You are given a number of options:

- you can choose to receive your alerts on a weekly or monthly basis

- you can have then sent to another email address by overwriting the one displayed

- you can temporarily suspend the alerts by clicking the 'Turn off alert' checkbox

- you can delete it altogther by checking the 'Delete' box