Creating
Table of Contents Alerts
If
you have a favourite journal in your area of expertise it may be useful to set
up a Table of Contents or TOC alert for yourself. This means that every time
there is a new edition of the journal you will receive an email listing the
contents. You can then make a decision as to whether there are any articles
which you wish to read in full text.
You can obtain ToCs freely by registering with the site Journal TOCs and
then selecting the journal titles for which you wish to receive TOCs. The site
claims to provide the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of
Contents (TOCs) with 36,030 journals including 17,884 selected Open Access
journals and 12,196 Hybrid journals, from 3750 publishers.
JournalTOCs
is a free service provided by Herriot-Watt University. Useful step by step
instructions for registering and using JournalTOCs can be found on the Cornell
University website at https://www.library.cornell.edu/research-teaching/current-awareness/
Often you can also sign up for TOCs directly online from a
journal’s homepage. If a journal title you want to sign up to isn’t included in
the JournalTOC service above this is an alternative option.
If you find something in the TOC alert that you want to read in
full text you may be able to click the link and get straight through to the
full text but if not you may need to make a note of the citation and use the journals A-Z in
order to get access via UHNM subscriptions using your OpenAthens
log-in.
Please do not hesitate to contact the library for more help and
advice on this.