Alerting Services
You can use the following resources to receive--usually by e-mail or RSS--the tables of contents of new issues of important journals, and/or the results of searches that are run periodically across important databases or the journals of specific publishers.
Multi-Publisher Alerting Services (journals)
JournalFinder (for journals to which the Grinnell College Libraries subscribe)
- Search for a journal whose tables of contents you wish to receive.
- To subscribe to e-mail alerts, click the "Subscribe to e-mail alerts" link and enter your e-mail address.
- To subscribe to RSS alerts, click on the "Subscribe to RSS alerts" link and add the feed to your preferred feed reader.
- If you do not see links to subscribe to alerts, alerts are not available for that journal.
JournalTOCs (receive tables of contents from 18,000+ journals via RSS)
- Search for a journal whose tables of contents you wish to receive.
- Click on the link for the title, which will bring up information about that journal in the center pane.
- Click on the RSS icon and add the feed to your preferred feed reader.
EBSCOhost (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
- Choose EBSCOhost Web from the options listed on the page.
- On the next screen, click the Sign In link (at the top middle of the screen) to register a new account or to login.
- The next screen lists the available databases; choose those you wish to search and click "Continue."
- Instructions for creating a journal alert.
- Instructions for creating a search alert.
- Alerts can be received by e-mail or RSS.
Proquest--My Research (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers searches)
- Register to create a personal account (in the upper right corner of the screen--Please log in to My Research).
- Once you have created your account, you can login here -- http://my.csa.com/ids70/personal/
- Create searches (alerts) to run periodically across Proquest databases.
- Alerts can be received via RSS or e-mail.
Individual Publishers (journals)
Cambridge University Press Journals (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
- Register to create a personal account (or login).
- At the next screen, click on My Content Alerts (left side of screen).
- Journals covered by Cambridge University Press.
Elsevier--ScienceDirect (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
- Register to create a personal account (or login; please do not use the faculty login associated with the pay-per-view service) in the upper right corner of the screen.
- The "volume/issue alert notifies you by e-mail when a new issue of a particular journal or a new volume of a particular book series or handbook series becomes available on ScienceDirect."
- "A Topic Alert notifies you by e-mail when new articles pertaining to a specific topic are available on ScienceDirect." Topic Alerts are searches created for you; you cannot specify your own search and receive an alert.
Oxford University Press Journals (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents)
- Register to create a personal account (or login).
- On the next screen, click View alerting preferences.
- Journals covered by Oxford University Press.
Wiley Online Library (covers the Social Sciences and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)
- Register to create a personal account (or login) in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Look to the upper right of the screen for your options.
- The Titles alert will automatically notify you by e-mail "when new content in a saved journal has been published."
- For Search alerts, "you can retrieve, edit, and re-run your saved search(es) to find new or archived material matching your search parameters", or you can be automatically alerted via email "when an article matching your search has been published."
- Journals covered by Wiley Online Library.
Books:
Grinnell College Libraries Catalog (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers searches)
- Instructions for setting up Preferred Searches (that will be delivered to you via e-mail as new materials are added to the library collection which match your search parameters)
