This document provides instructions for setting up email alerts through two journal alerting services: Zetoc and JournalTOCs. Zetoc monitors over 29,000 journals and 52 million articles, allowing users to search, set up RSS feeds, or email alerts. It describes how to create a Zetoc alert list by choosing an organization, list name, and adding journals or searches. JournalTOCs provides free tables of contents for around 27,000 journals and can also set up email alerts for new issues of selected journals. The document notes that journals listed may not all have full text access and to check subscription access before requesting articles.

1. JOURNAL ALERTING SERVICES
Lyn Bailey
Classics Librarian
lkb24@cam.ac.uk

2.  Zetoc: The monitoring and search service for
global research publications
 http://zetoc.jisc.ac.uk/
 Over 29,000 journals and 52 million articles
 Can search, set up RSS feeds or email alerts

3. SETTING UP A ZETOC ALERT EMAIL
 Click on Zetoc Alert – Access
 Choose University of Cambridge organisation and login
with Raven
 Create a new Zetoc Alert List with email and optional list
name, which may be a topic or area you are studying
e.g. volcanoes
 Click on “create”
 List is created and lasts one year but can be renewed
 Hypertext links will lead back to abstracts and a search
for the full text article
 Finally add journals or author/title searches
 Emails sent with table of contents for each issue of the
journals on your list as they are published

4. ZETOC ALERT – USEFUL STUFF
 Journals are added and removed so keep checking
and amending your lists
 Remember to renew the list every 12 months if still
required. Reminders are sent.
 Zetoc does include journals that the University may
not have full text access to. So be aware of this.
 If an article looks useful and no subscription then
try an Inter-Library Loan
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/int
er-library-loans

5.  JournalTOCs free collection of scholarly journal
Tables of Contents: c.27,000 journals including
Open Access and Hybrid journals
 http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/
 Can search and browse by subjects and publishers
 Also set up alerts for new issues of your chosen
journals

6. SETTING UP JOURNALTOCS EMAIL ALERTS
 Create an account and sign in. Use your
Cambridge email if you wish to follow more than 30
journals
 Browse or search for journals and tick the ones you
want to follow
 When a new issue is published an email is sent
with the table of contents
 Hyperlinks in the email will take you to the content
 Some journals you may not have full access to if
the University does not subscribe