As well as journal contents pages you can set up alerts based on database searches - your database search will be run automatically at regular intervals and any records found will be emailed to you or sent through as rss feeds. This is a very powerful way of keeping up to date with your subject as you are able to scan thousands of journals for the latest articles relevant to your research. Providing that your original search was well constructed and not too narrow you should be able to receive regular updates of highly relevant material. You can consult your liaison librarian to fine-tune your search before you save it as an alert. Postgraduate students and academic researchers should have an alert set up for each major research area.
Setting up Alerts by Database Groups
Scopus A large multidisciplinary database with exceptionally good alerting functions
Web of Knowledge (Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, Biological Abstracts)
EBSCOhost (Academic Search Elite, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, EconLit, ERIC, Historical Abstracts, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, SPORTDiscus)
OVID (Biological Abstracts, ERIC, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Medline, Philosopher's Index, PsycInfo)
CSA (ARTbibliographies Modern, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Bibliography of the History of Art , DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts)
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