Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Contents Page Alerts

You can keep up with the articles published in your favourite journals by receiving contents alerts, either in the form of emails or rss feeds. Each time a new issue of a journal is published you will receive the contents page, with links to the articles themselves. You can set up alerts through publishers' journal packages or by going to the web page for a specific journal.

Publisher's websites

If you know the publisher of the journal for which you wish to receive contents pages you may be able to receive email alerts or rss feeds directly from their websites - this usually provides a direct link to your Massey subscription rights. Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a good place to find who publishes a specific title. The Journal Publishing and Ranking Page contains an extensive list of links. Some of the more important publisher-based alerting services are

American Chemical Society
Annual Reviews (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Cambridge University Press (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Elsevier ScienceDirect (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Emerald Journals (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Highwire Press (Select an individual title for email alerts and rss feeds)
IEEE (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Nature Publishing (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Oxford University Press (Select an individual title for email alerts and rss feeds)
Palgrave Macmillan Journals (Select an individual title for email alerts and rss feeds)
Sage Journals (Select an individual title for email alerts and rss feeds)
SciQuest Journals (Register for email alerts)
Springer Journals (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Taylor & Francis (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)
Wiley InterScience (Register for email alerts or select an individual title for rss feeds)


IngentaConnect

IngentaConnect is a freely available database of over 30,000 journals to which you can set up email alerts or rss feeds. To find a journal search for it by title with the Journal or book title option selected.



If you register yourself you can select up to five titles for email alerts under Massey's license. There is no limit on the number of rss feeds you can create - if you cannot see an rss icon click on the Alerting options link at the right of the page.



Warning - often the alert you receive from IngentaConnect will link you to a page offering to sell you a copy of the article rather than to one where your Massey subscription rights are recognised. For this reason it may be preferable to use one of the major databases or the publishers' own websites for your email alerts or rss feeds.

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