3. Defining what is mandatory in the bibliographic watch specifications

What's compulsory is everything that will help you, effortlessly, to get back on track:

• the reasons for setting up the watch (monitoring competitors, technological advances on a specific subject, methods, etc.);

• the scope of the watch (do we only monitor French publications? American publications? French publications in French?

• database(s). Depending on your budget, the database you choose may be free or not. Some databases reference more local journals (e.g. J-Stage references most Asian biomedical journals);

• keywords and search strategy (to be noted in the specifications, in case the alert set up is lost or accidentally deleted, or if you...