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Alerting Services
You can use the following resources to receive--usually by e-mail--the tables of contents of new issues of important journals, and/or the results of searches that are run periodically across important databases or the journals of specific publishers.
ticTOCs--Journal Tables of Contents Service
*Receive tables of contents from 11,000+ journals via e-mail or RSS.
*To receive tables of contents through e-mail:
- Go to the ticTOCs site.
- Search for a journal whose tables of contents you wish to receive.
- Click on the link for the title, which will bring up information about that journal in the center pane. (Be patient; this can take a few seconds to load.)
- Click on the link in the center pane that reads, "Export feed to..."
- Select "E-mail."
- Enter your e-mail address and click "Subscribe me!"
- Repeat for each of the journals whose tables of contents you wish to receive.
EBSCOhost (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
*Choose EBSCOhost Web from the options listed on the page.
*On the next screen, click the Sign In to My EBSCOhost link (at the top middle of the screen) to register a new account or to login.
*The next screen lists the available databases; choose those you wish to search and click "Continue."
*Instructions for creating a journal alert.
*Instructions for creating a search alert.
*Alerts can be received by e-mail or RSS.
Proquest--My Research (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers searches)
*Register to create a personal account (in the upper right corner of the screen--Please log in to My Research).
*Once you have created your account, you can login here -- http://my.csa.com/ids70/personal/
*Create searches (alerts) to run periodically across Proquest CSA databases. These databases include the following:
ARTbibliographies Modern
Bibliography of the History of Art
Biological Sciences
Biology Digest
Conference Papers Index
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt
ERIC
CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
MEDLINE
PAIS Archive
PAIS International
Plant Science
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
TOXLINE
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
*Alerts can be received via RSS or e-mail.
Elsevier--ScienceDirect (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
*Register to create a personal account (or login; please do not use the faculty login associated with the pay-per-view service) in the upper right corner of the screen.
*The "volume/issue alert notifies you by e-mail when a new issue of a particular journal or a new volume of a particular book series or handbook series becomes available on ScienceDirect."
*"A Topic Alert notifies you by e-mail when new articles pertaining to a specific topic are available on ScienceDirect." Topic Alerts are searches created for you; you cannot specify your own search and receive an alert.
Wiley Interscience (covers the Social Sciences and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
*Register to create a personal account (or login) in the upper right corner of the screen.
*Look to the upper right of the screen for your options.
*The Titles alert will automatically notify you by e-mail "when new content in a saved journal has been published."
*For Search alerts, "you can retrieve, edit, and re-run your saved search(es) to find new or archived material matching your search parameters", or you can be automatically alerted via email "when an article matching your search has been published."
*Journals covered by Wiley Interscience.
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