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Table of Contents Services

Table of contents services are designed to keep you up-to-date with information about the latest journal publications and Internet-based resources as they become available. This guide provides links to several of the services that can be accessed to receive the results of saved searches or the tables of contents of journals by e-mail.


American Chemical Society's ASAP

ASAP Alerts is a new free service that brings the latest research posted to ACS Web Editions. ASAP Alerts features announcements of newly available A.S.A.P (As Soon As Publishable) articles from each of ACS' 28 Web Editions. Users can sign up to receive e-mail notices on a weekly basis or on the same day the articles are posted. The message contains the title, author, journal name, official Web publication date, and direct URL link to the full article on the Web. Register for ASAP alerts by filling up form including your e-mail address. You will receive one e-mail for each journal you sign up for, either weekly or daily--depending on the frequency you choose.

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American Society of Civil Engineers- ASCE

Receive table of contents alerts as the newest issues of ASCE journals are published. You have the option of receiving alerts in plain text or HTML format (note: alerts in HTML format are fully linked to abstracts and full text.) The service is free, simply Register with an email address and choose the journals for which you like to receive alerts from the provided list.

For additional information on the ASCE alerts, click here.

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BioMedNet

BioMedNet is a collection of scientific resources published on the Internet. Using BioMedNet, you can find information on journals, books, research papers, jobs, and scientific products.

To receive the free Table of Content's Email Alert , go to the BioMedNet Alerts page.You will need to join Biomednet before you can receive these alerts by registering on the Biomednet membership page.

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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Alerts

The Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Internet Database Service (IDS) provides bibliographic databases in science, the social sciences and technology. Databases available at Ryerson include: Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, ERIC, PsycInfo, Social Services Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts. Alerts can be emailed to you on your research topic.

To set up an alert, access one of the databases and perform a search. When the results appear, click on the Search History/Alerts button and then select the Save as Alert option. Enter an email address and password and hit "Save". CSA will then automatically check your chosen database(s) each week for new content and email you the records.

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CatchWord Alerts

CatchWord is a database of over 1100 online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers.

CatchWord's free ToC Alerting Service will email you the contents page of any chosen journal whenever the latest issue becomes available online. Anyone can request e-mail alerts: you do not have to be a subscriber. Just Sign Up Here.

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Cubby

Cubby is a new feature of PubMed that provides users with a personalized online "storage space" for searches. Users may enter up to 100 search statements. These search statements are stored in Cubby and are updated periodically.

To use Cubby to store search strategies, you must first register. Once you've registered, you can start saving searches. Searches with special terms and limits can be stored. The Last Search section displays your last search run, which you should rename and then Store in Cubby. You can update any search in your Cubby by clicking on the check box(es) next to the Cubby Search Name and then on What's New For Selected.

EbscoHost

Databases available through EbscoHost include Academic Search Premier, Computer Source, and ERIC.

The EBSCOhost Alerts feature allows a user to save a search and have it run at specified intervals. You will receive e-mail notification when new articles that match your search query have been found.

To create Alerts : Choose one of the EbscoHost databases and then select the Expert search option. Search on a topic when the search results appear, click on Refine Search. Click on Save Search/Alert. Follow the instructions at I'm a New User to set up a New Account and then Save Alert.

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EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library) Current Awareness Services

EEVL provides a central access point to networked Engineering information for the UK higher education and research community, and anyone else who may be looking for networked engineering information. Resources being added to the catalogue are selected, catalogued, classified and subject-indexed by experts to ensure that only current, high-quality or useful resources are included. Current Awareness Services section provides comprehensive compilation of other awareness services such as Sci-Tech library Newsletter, New Sites by Week - Donald W. Craik Engineering Library , and INFOMINE: What's New! Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math. Also, provides access to various current awareness resources for new engineering books, new engineering articles, conferences, symposia and conference papers.

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Emerald Alert

Emerald (Electronic Management Research Library Database) delivers all the resources of a full management library of journal literature including the topics, management human resources, information management, library & information services, marketing, operations, production & economics, property, quality, training & education.

Emerald's alerting service emails the contents of journals you choose from the major management disciplines represented. There are two options for this alerting service: 1) Saved Search (adding your searches to an alert profile will result in future emails containing citations that match the search in your selected database) 2.) Table Of Contents (as new issues of any journals you choose become available, an email containing the table of contents for that journal will be sent to you).

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IEEE - What's new?/IEEE Xplore

WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE, is a complimentary monthly electronic newsletter. What's New will keep you informed about IEEE's library related activities, policies, and periodicals releases. To receive your free subscription, go to What's New@IEEE and formally subscribe by entering your E-mail address.

IEEE Xplore email alerts notify you by email when new issues of the journals and magazines you request become available. Xplore provides full text access to journals and magazines available to you after submitting your name and email address. The email will include as many journals as you choose and the table of contents for each issue. (Note: conference proceedings and standards are not available for email alerts.)

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Infomine E-Mail Alert Service

INFOMINE is a unique Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet. A virtual library, INFOMINE is notable for its collection of over 23,000 annotated and indexed links. Substantive databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, textbooks and conference proceedings are among the many types of resources included in Infomine.

Before receiving e-mail alerts from Infomine, you will need to register. Once you have registered, e-mail alerts in the categories you have selected will be delivered at seven, fourteen or twenty day intervals.

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IoP Alerts

The Institute of Physics (IoP) Alerts service is designed to keep you up-to-date with the publication of new articles within your chosen subject area. Whenever a new article corresponding to your selection becomes available, you will automatically receive an e-mail message containing the article details.

The first thing you need to do to access this service is to create an account. Once you have created an alert profile, whenever articles matching your criteria are published, you will automatically receive e-mail messages containing their details (including the abstracts if you wish). You can also create profiles to receive the tables of contents of IOP journals as soon as issues are published online.

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Librarians' Resource Center

Librarians' Resource Center provides monthly annotated listing of new and useful sites in various categories such as business, commercial database vendors, engineering science and technology, government and web publishing and many others.

To subscribe to receive regular updates, send an email to: librariansresourcecentre-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

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Medfetch

MedFetch is a web based software program for querying the world's greatest medical databases. As new information is added, MedFetch scans the database according to your search terms. Once you set up an Automated Medline Query (AMQ), any NEW citation that is added to the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE which matches your search terms, will be e-mailed directly to you.

To use this service, you will need to Register at Medfetch (click on accept to continue the registration process) and set up your Automated Medline Queries according to the instructions given at this site. Any matches in the last 30 days are e-mailed to you. From then on, the search is run over and over again. You do not receive duplicates.

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Northern Light Search Alert Service

Northern Light provides access to a collection of over 7100 full-text publications organized into custom search folders. Their Search Alert service will notify you when there are new Web pages or special collection documents covering topics of your choice. Before using this service you will have to set up a Northern Light account.

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NSDL Scout Report

As part of the NSDL project (National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library), the Internet Scout Project's NSDL Scout Reports offer high quality information about online resources. A team of professional librarians and content experts locate, research, and annotate these resources for the reports. Topics covered by the reports include the life sciences, the physical sciences, and math, engineering & technology. Subscribe to receive bi-weekly reports of the best new and newly discovered online resources in each of these topic areas.

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OVID

Databases available through OVID include: Cancerlit and Medline. The full text of 15 nursing journals and a selection of reference texts are also available through OVID.

You can create AutoAlerts in OVID to periodically receive the results of saved searches. To create an AutoAlert, undertake a search on any topic. When the search results appear, click on Save Search History and activate the radio button for AutoAlert (SDI) Service. Add your e-mail address to the on-line form and then click the Save Search button.

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Oxford Journals

To receive via e-mail the latest table of contents for any journal(s) from Oxford, go to Table of Contents Emailing Service and choose journal(s) of your choice. Tables of contents and abstracts are freely available to anyone visiting their web site.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Two types of Email Alerts are available to PNAS Online users:

CiteTrack will alert you by email whenever new content in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or a participating journal is published that matches criteria based on the topics, authors and articles you want to track. This feature is only available to individual subscribers. Read detailed description of CiteTrack or sign up for CiteTrack.

Contents Awareness service allows anyone who registers their address to be notified via email when new content goes online. You may choose to receive any or all of the following: notification that a new issue of PNAS is online, complete table of contents (eTOC) for new issues, or special announcements from NAS.

If you would like this service, sign up for Contents Awareness Service.

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Project Muse

Receive weekly e-mail notifications of new journal issues or new titles available in Project Muse by registering at the Project Muse Journal Alerts  link.

Project Muse offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from approximately 30 scholarly publishers. As an important source of academic and scholarly content, Project Muse covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

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The Royal Society

An independent national academy founded in 1660, the Royal Society supports scientific researchers and publishes five peer-reviewed journals, along with promoting international interaction concerning issues in science. The Society represents not only the scientific community within Britain, but relations with scientists and scientific organizations throughout the world.

To receive Table of Contents email alerts, choose 'Proceedings A' or 'Proceedings B' and then 'Alerts' on the following screen. Enter your name and email address. Once you have registered, you will have the option of selecting or deleting potential journals from your list.

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Scholars Portal

The Scholars Portal provides access to 3,193 full text journals published by Academic Press, Elsevier Science, Kluwer (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Kluwer Law International, Kluwer/Plenum, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. The Scholar's Portal Alerts service can be used to receive the results of saved searches and the tables of contents of journals by e-mail.

Prior to using the Alerts service, you will need to register for an account to create a username and password. To begin using the Alerts service, click on the logon link on the top left of the Scholars Portal home page and log in using your username and password. To obtain tables of contents, browse the journals by title or publisher. When the issue information for a journal is displayed, you can click on New Issue Alerts: Add this Journal to create a table of contents alert. To periodically receive the results of a saved search, search on a topic of your choice and when the results appear click on the Save Search option.

Click here for additional information about the Scholars Portal Alerts service.

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The Scientist

The Scientist, the News Journal for the Life Scientist, provides a new alert service at The Scientist. At this site after you register with an email address, members will receive biweekly e-mail notification of the contents of the latest issue of The Scientist. The Scientist is the first and only news journal for scientists which is freely available in full text on the web. The Scientist provides an open forum for examination and discussion of issues in research, technology, employment, funding, policy and other subjects important to the life scientist.

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Zita Murphy & Bob Jackson, Content Editors
zmurphy@ryerson.ca
bjackson@ryerson.ca

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