Ask a reference librarian for help in constructing your profile and receiving the results. The SDI profile will be saved to disk, and can be run whenever you want. Personal Reminders Never again forget birthdays, anniversaries or other dates. News and New Web Pages For the Web, you create your profile in an agent. The agent then sends out robots to seek Web pages that match your criteria.
Most agents require registration and some personal information.
We advise some caution and checking to ensure that the profile data will be secure and private, and not sold to marketers. Some agents focus on news stories. For instance, if you would like to receive news about your home town, you might put both the town and county's names in the profile. For medications, put trade and generic drug names in the profile. For diseases, list all the possible alternative names.