A viable alternative to an individual or library
subscription to a print or electronic journal is a free email alerting
service for the table of contents of new journal issues often before
they are published.
A variety of journal and book table of content services are: |
- Ingenta (Formerly
Carl Uncover) is a free service that emails journal table of contents
(TOC) as each new issue is published from 26,000 scholarly research
journals.
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- ContentsDirect
is the free alerting service which sends tables of contents by
email for Elsevier Science books and journals. Register
to profile selections.
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- PDA Channels - Highwire Remote is offered as a service
by Individual HighWire journals. It delivers TOC, abstracts,
and selected full text material from current journal issues
to handheld PDAs.
- HighWire eTOCs - Emails either complete TOCs (from
both current and future content) or notification that an issue
has just gone online.
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- Wiley
InterScience offers an email alert based on personal
research profile in Profiled Alerts, and a TOC service, Content
Alerts, which are free.
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- Karger
ToC-Alert-Table of Contents - Karger is a leading medical
and scientific publisher of research journals & books.
Upon registration you may receive the TOCs to any of the Karger
journal publications. Some journals even before they are
published and whether or not you subscribe or not.
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- Ruth
Lilly Medical Library Online Bookstore - has the TOC of
many of the in print medical, scientific, and technical books.
Keyword searches include the table of content words when available.
You may also register and receive notices of available books by
subject area under Quick Alerts.
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