Current Awareness: Alert Services Guide

JournalTOCs

• Can use alerts to track the latest table of contents of individual journal issues (18,000+ titles to choose from; covers wide variety of disciplines)
• Create an account to set up email alerts, then search for the journals for which you wish to receive alerts
• Search for a journal by title then click on the RSS icon to add it to your preferred feed reader

IngentaConnect

• IngentaConnect is a fee-based service, but individual researchers can create an account and create up to 5 issue alerts for free
• Click on the "Register" button on the right side of the page to create a personal account
• Once registered, click "Adding New Issue Alerts" and then click on the tab "Add" to select your 5 alerts

EBSCOhost Web

• Click "Sign In" within the blue bar running along the top of this website. Sign in (using your My EBSCOhost login credentials) or create an account
• Click here for instructions on creating a journal alert

Project Muse

• You do not need to sign in to access alerts for journals indexed in Project Muse
• Click here for instructions on creating a journal alert
• Click here for instructions on creating an RSS alert

SpringerLink

• Use when on-campus or follow these directions to connect to the campus VPN when off-campus
• Sign into your personal account (or register for an account if you don't have one) by clicking the link at the top of the website
• When you have searched for and found a journal title you're interested in following, click "Register for Journal Updates" link on the right-hand side under the menu Other Actions
• This will bring you to the journal's homepage, and from there you can click enter your email address on the right-hand side under Alerts for this Journal

Elsevier - ScienceDirect

• Sign in if you already have a personal ScienceDirect account, or register a new account
• Once logged in you can set up "Journal or Book-Series Alerts." To set up an alert, click on "Publications" within the green bar at the top of the page and select the title of a journal or book you're interested in following. Once on the info page, click the link "Alert me about new articles" below the title
• Once you set up an alert, it will be delivered to you via email

Oxford University Press Journals

• Sign into your personal account (or register for an account if you don't have one)
• On the following page, click the link "View alerting preferences." From there you can click on "Add eTOCs" and select the Oxford journals you wish to follow

Cambridge University Press Journals

• Sign into your personal account (or register for an account if you don't have one)
• Once logged in, look at the drop-down menu on the left and select "Content Alerts." Click on the "Add Content Alerts" option to select which Cambridge journals you wish to follow

Wiley Online Library

• Register to create a new personal account or login to an existing account in the top right
• Once logged in, set up journal alerts by clicking here to view the Wiley Online Library holdings. Once you find a journal of interest, click on its title. Along the left side you should see an option to "Get New Content Alerts" under the menu Journal Tools
• You can change your alert service preferences here

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications

• At the top of the page, log in to your ACS account or click "Register" to create an account. You will need to register for a free ACS ID (username) in order to create an account for ACS Publications
• After logging in, click on the "e-Alerts" menu option in the purple bar near the top of the website. You will be provided with a list of ACS journals to choose from and given alert preference options