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LibraryLinks Spring 2005

Keep Current with E-Mail Alerts from Journal Websites

By Abigail Bordeaux

Did you know you can have journal tables of contents delivered directly to your inbox? Many electronic journal websites and some abstracting and indexing services offer this feature, along with the ability to save searches and receive alerts when there are new search results. The largest of these services may be IngentaConnect, which includes content from over 29,000 publications. Thanks to support from SUNY Central, it's possible to set up an unlimited number of alerts at the IngentaConnect site. You may set up alerts for some of the 500+ journals to which the Libraries subscribe, or you may set up alerts for thousands of other titles and then request an interlibrary loan for material that interests you. In addition to IngentaConnect, the following library resources are among those offering table of contents and/or search alerts:

To access these and other electronic resources, please visit the Databases and Journal Indexes page.