Most publishers and e-resource providers provide alerting services to help keep their customers informed in their chosen area.
An alerting service is a service that delivers table of contents and/or daily and/or weekly digests of journals to your email box.
The service is not only designed for the serious researchers but also those who may be leisure users of information.
An alerts can be sent via email or RSS feed.
It is a free service....
Most of these services require you to register with the database provider(s) and to create a user name and password to login .
Search Terms Alert- customiazble and built from your own keyword search
Journal Title - You can select a specific journal you wish to follow. You will receive the table of content (TOC) from the latest issue.
Citation Alert - Whenever the selected citation is use in a selected database you will receive a notice from that database of future articles referencing that citation.
It is a free service
It is a comprehensive coverage of your topic
Lets you know instantly when something new is available
