Journal alerts

Journal (Table of Contents) alerts provide a convenient way of keeping up with the latest issues of your favorite journals. They are offered by library subscription databases as well as free services on the internet.

Subscribing to alerts generally involves:

setting up a database account
identifying the journal title/s
nominating a delivery method (e.g. email or RSS).

You can also easily keep up to date with scholarly journals in your field with the BrowZine app.

Instructions for setting up journal alerts in key databases

EBSCOhost
EbscoHost is a multidisciplinary database platform
Informit
Informit is a multidisiplinary database that focuses on Australian publications and multimedia content
Ovid
Ovid indexes journals in the health and medical sciences, life sciences, psychology and engineering
ProQuest
ProQuest is a multidisciplinary database platform
Web of Science
The Current Contents Connect database indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities

Free journal TOC alerts

Journal TOC and other new publication alerts are available from many publishers' websites.

Journal TOCs
The largest, free collection of scholarly journal table of contents
Ulrich's Web (creation of a free account required)
Provides contact information of journal publishers throughout the world