…by subscribing to current awareness services such as Zetoc and TicTOCs. Such services enable you to find out about new articles or conference papers in your area of interest, sometimes within 72 hours of publication! All you need to do is set up an ‘alert’ and whenever something new is published you will be notified by email.
Zetoc is freely available to all members of Higher Education institutions, and is updated on a daily basis using the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents. It currently contains information taken from 20,000 journals and about 16,000 conference proceedings a year, totalling over 37 million records. It lets you set up an unlimited number of alerts and you can request to be notified when a new issue of a journal is published or, perhaps most usefully, when new articles are published in any journal on a topic of your choice. You can even ask to be notified when a particular author publishes a new article. Zetoc also operates an RSS feed service.
TicTOCs is a similar service to Zetoc, but features about 2,300 journals not in Zetoc (equally Zetoc contains about 17,400 not in TicTOCs – statistics taken from the TicTOCs blog). TicTOCs is completely free to use – you do not need to belong to an HE institution. As well as having some additional journals not featured in Zetoc, it also has the advantage of containing abstracts for some journal articles.
Zetoc is freely available to all members of Higher Education institutions, and is updated on a daily basis using the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents. It currently contains information taken from 20,000 journals and about 16,000 conference proceedings a year, totalling over 37 million records. It lets you set up an unlimited number of alerts and you can request to be notified when a new issue of a journal is published or, perhaps most usefully, when new articles are published in any journal on a topic of your choice. You can even ask to be notified when a particular author publishes a new article. Zetoc also operates an RSS feed service.
TicTOCs is a similar service to Zetoc, but features about 2,300 journals not in Zetoc (equally Zetoc contains about 17,400 not in TicTOCs – statistics taken from the TicTOCs blog). TicTOCs is completely free to use – you do not need to belong to an HE institution. As well as having some additional journals not featured in Zetoc, it also has the advantage of containing abstracts for some journal articles.
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