Showing posts with label current awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label current awareness. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

23,000 scholarly journals now included in JournalTOCs, the free current awareness & alerting service

jtocslogoThis is a great service.





JournalTOCs  is delighted to announce that you can now keep up-to-date with the latest research papers from over 23,000 scholarly journals from over 2,000 different publishers.  Of those 23,000 journals, 6,600 are Open Access (OA).



 JournalTOCs is used by tens of thousands of researchers worldwide to find and be alerted to the latest published papers, and is free for individual researchers. Registration is free, email alert options for new Tables of Contents (TOCs) are free.  Seethe most Followed journals 



 In addition, there is a low-cost institutional Premium version of JournalTOCs  aimed at research, commercial and academic libraries.  Used by pharmaceutical libraries, health and medical libraries, the European University Institute, the VSSC, etc, JournalTOCS Premium enables libraries and resource centres to provide a customised and easily managed current awareness and alerting service to users.



 A new project funded by the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account will enable JournalTOCS 1: to help publishers to implement standard access-rights elements in their RSS feeds to enable the systematic identification of Open Access articles from hybrid and Green OA journals, and; 2: to broaden the benefits of current awareness on scholarly publications for researchers from developing countries. More details 

Friday, August 17, 2012

Current awareness made easy?

Now this is really something! 
Jean Thomas from NMMU alerted me to this service available at JournalTOCS.  This site freely allows one to set up TOC alerts to selected journals but see this link for what else is on offer (admittedly at a price - but not too expensive for an institution?).  A trial period is available.

"Armed only with a list of some of your users’ email addresses and a list of the particular scholarly journals they are interested in (ones your organisation subscribes to, ones you don’t subscribe to, Open Access journals, hybrid journals to which you do, or don’t subscribe – it doesn’t matter which – it’s up to them, and they can choose to limit as they wish), you can act as a super-admin-user and set up a personalised web and email based scholarly journal Tables of Contents alerting service for them, with ease!"