Alerting services

Alerting services, also called current awareneess services, can be sent from publishers, article-indexing databases, or 3rd parties that combines these sources.

Many databases provide email and RSS alerting services to highlight new content as it is added to the database. These kinds of alerts can be more useful than publisher-based alerts when your research topic is covered across multiple journals or is multi-disciplinary.

Journal Tables of Contents

JournalTOCs
JournalTOCs provides a single access point to RSS feeds of new tables of contents from over 10,000 scholarly journals. You may search or browse for journals, then follow them to receive their feeds. You can also export your selected feeds for use in your favorite RSS feed reader. Note: Links to articles in these feeds will unlikely work outside of the campus network.

H1Connect

H1Connect
H1Connect is an expert recommendation service of important articles in biology and medicine that provides commentary and opinion on which papers to read and why. H1Connect is free to join.

BrowZine

Easily read complete scholarly journals in a format that is optimized for iPad, Android, and Kindle devices
Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals
Be alerted when new issues of journals are published
Easily save to Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox and other services