Many electronic resource providers now offer free alerting services that
help you keep yourself up-to-date with current literature in particular
subject areas. These alerts are usually in the form of email notifications,
or are delivered via RSS (more about RSS from Wikipedia
and whatisrss.com) to inform users
of new contents that become available online.
You are usually, but not always, required to register for a free personal
account before you can create email alerts. Setting up RSS feeds, on the
other hand, usually does not require registration of a personal account
but you need to install an RSS reader/aggregator on your computer or register
at an RSS reader web site beforehand. List of RSS readers/aggregators
can be found on the Internet. Some are free and some you have to pay for.
Here are some examples of free RSS readers (their inclusion here does
not constitute a recommendation):
| Database / Database Service / E-Journal Collections |
Tutorials on |
| Email Alerts |
RSS Alerts |
| ACM
Digital Library |
ToC alerts |
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
Journals & Magazines [available
titles]
Apart from ToC alerts, you can sign up for ASAP Alerts to
receive daily or weekly e-mail alerts when individual articles
are released on the Web, prior to being assigned to an issue. |
ASAP alerts
ToC alerts |
ToC
alerts |
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American
Mathematical Society Online Journals [available titles]
Apart from ToC alerts, you can sign up for Article Notification
to receive weekly email notification stating what journals have
posted articles that meet the subject area requirements selected
by you. |
Article Notification
ToC alerts |
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| American
Meteorological Society Journals Online [available
titles] |
ToC alerts |
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| Annual
Reviews [available
titles] |
Citation alerts
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Citation alerts
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Blackwell Synergy (see Wiley InterScience with which Blackwell Synergy has integrated) |
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| Cambridge Journals
Online [available
titles] |
Citation alerts
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
ToC alerts |
CSA Illumina
|
Search
alerts |
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| Compendex |
Search alerts |
Search alerts |
| EBSCOhost (EBSCOhost Web Interface)
EBSCOhost (Business Searching Interface)
|
Search alerts
ToC alerts
For Business Searching Interface only:
Search alerts
ToC alerts
|
Search alerts
ToC alerts
For Business Searching Interface only:
Search alert
ToC alerts |
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Emeral
Fulltext [available
titles]
Apart from ToC and automatic search alerts, you can also sign up
for Weekly Digest to receive a summary of all Emerald Fulltext
journals updated each week. |
Search alerts
ToC alerts
Weekly Digest |
ToC alerts |
| Haworth
Press |
ToC
alerts |
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| IEEE Xplore |
ToC
alerts |
ToC
alerts |
| IngentaConnect
[available
titles] |
ToC
alerts |
ToC
alerts |
| informaworld
[available
titles] |
Citation alerts
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
ToC
alerts |
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IoP
Electronic Journals [available
titles]
Apart from ToC and automatic search alerts, you can also set up
an RSS feed to get updated of the latest articles of a particular
journal. |
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Latest
articles |
| MathSciNet |
- |
ToC alerts |
| MetaPress
[available
titles] |
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Oxford Journals Online [available
titles]  |
ToC alerts |
ToC alerts |
| Project
Muse Scholarly Journals Online: Social Sciences Collection [available
titles] |
ToC alerts |
ToC alerts |
ProQuest Databases
- ABI/INFORM Complete
- Academic Research Library
- Accounting & Tax
- Banking Information Source
- Career and Technical Education
- Pharmaceutical News Index
- ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
- ProQuest Computing
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- ProQuest Education Journals
- ProQuest European Business
- ProQuest Medical Library
- ProQuest Newspapers
- ProQuest Religion
- ProQuest Research Library: Health Module
- ProQuest Science Journals
- ProQuest Social Science Journals
- ProQuest Telecommunications
- U.S. National Newspapers Abstracts
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Search alerts
ToC alerts |
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
You can set up to receive alerts whenever new dissertations and theses on pre-set
topics are added to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Click on this link to set up your RSS alerts:
http://il.proquest.com/syndication/rss/disstheses.shtml
(You can also go to this page by clicking the "Dissertations & Theses RSS Feeds" link in
the Results page of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.) |
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New dissertations and theses alerts |
| RSC
(Royal Society of Chemistry) Journals [available titles] |
ToC alerts |
ToC alerts |
Sage Journals Online
[available
titles]  |
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ToC alerts |
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ScienceDirect [available
titles]
Apart from automatic search, citation, and ToC alerts, you can
also sign up for Topic Alerts to receive email notifications
when articles pertaining to a special topic are available on ScienceDirect. |
Citation alerts
Search alerts
ToC alerts
Topic alerts |
Citation alerts
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
| Scitation
[available
titles] |
- |
Search
alerts |
| SIAM
Journals Online [available
titles] |
ToC alerts |
ToC alerts |
| SpringerLink
[available
titles] |
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
Web
of Science
|
Citation
alerts |
Citation
alerts |
| Wiley InterScience
[available
titles + available formerly Blackwell Synergy titles] |
Search alerts
ToC alerts |
ToC alerts |
| WorldSciNet
[available
titles] |
ToC alerts |
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