Monday, December 22, 2008

Another Way to Keep Up

Journal Tables of Contents is a free service from a consortium of UK universities and vendors like ProQuest to help researchers stay up to date on the journals in their fields. From the Web site:

Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers. With ticTOCs, it only takes a tick or two to keep up to date.
More details from the site:
  • ticTOCs is easy to use, and it's free.
  • Find 11,344 scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from 421 publishers.
  • View the latest TOC for each journal.
  • Link to the full text of 294,062 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows).
  • Export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders.
  • Select and save journal titles to view future TOCs ( You must register to ensure your MyTOCs are permanently saved).
  • And more!
I browsed around and found a variety of library and education journals. Note that this is a similar service to the Journal Alert by Ebsco, ProQuest, and other ELM vendors as Jennifer Hootman explained in her MILI December presentation. However, there may be other journals here that are not on an ELM database. I will say that the day I tried it, response time was very sloooooow.

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