As more and
more publishers, journal aggregators, vendors, and
societies/associations, etc. establish a presence on
the Internet, they use technology (i.e., alerting or
TOC notices) to promote products and services
directly to end users. Signing up for various
notification services can benefit faculty and students
with well-defined interests, whether scholarly or
recreational, and also promote use of a library�s full
text materials and general collections. Encouraging
incoming graduate students and new faculty to try
such services eases them into the use of different
online systems. The following list is an initial effort
to identify sites with utility for South Asian Studies
and is adapted from an outreach presentation. Comments
and/or additions should be directed to Merry Burlingham
(merry@mail.utexas.edu)
AAUP
(American Association of University Presses) New Releases [http://aaup.uchicago.edu/new_releases/]
Select specific subject areas, including Asian Studies, and
receive notices of new titles published by numerous
university presses as the volumes are released. Each subject
can be searched at the same page to review titles from the past few weeks.
Asia Bulletin
from the Asia Society�s online resource, Asia Source
[
http://www.asiasource.org/
bulletins/profilemain.cfm]
Create a profile for e-mail notification of news, Web pages,
books, etc. identified by staff of the Asia Society.
Asian Studies WWW Monitor
[
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html]
Daily announcements with evaluation of new Asian resources
on the web, distributed by Matthew Ciolek. Many announcements
are included in H-ASIA postings, but instructions for subscriptions
are given at the URL above. Site includes a searchable archive.
Cambridge University Press journals
[ http://www.journals.cup.org/cup/html/nm_intro.htm]:
Select titles such as Modern Asian Studies and receive
tables-of-contents by e-mail. Some libraries have access to full
text of CUP journals, although they require an individual logon;
most titles begin full text in 1998 or 1999.
Contents First: If your institution uses OCLC FirstSearch,
this database can be searched by journal title and subject
to view tables-of-contents by individual issue; it includes approx.
13,000 journal titles. Try this if a specific title doesn�t seem
to be included in any other TOC service.
Northern Light
Search Alert Service [
http://standard.northernlight.com/cgi-bin/cl_alert.pl]
Will send e-mail notification of Web pages or Special
Collection documents added to their online collections.
The Alert service is free, but using/retrieving some documents may incur costs.
Oxford University press
Journals [ http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/tocmail/] Select titles
such as the SOAS Bulletin and receive tables-of-contents
by e-mail. Some libraries have access to the full text of
OUP journals, although not all titles are yet available online.
SARA:
Scholarly Articles Research Alerting
[
http://www.catchword.co.uk/sara]
SARA allows choice by title or subject. Catchword, the journal aggregator,
also provides a TOCs service for additional publishers. Choices include
title, publisher, subject, or LC classification. Their alternate URL is:
http://figaro.catchword.com/cl=38/vl=79888361/nw=1/rpsv/cw/web/nw1/tocalert.htm
Sage Publications
Contents Alert [
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/] Although the major
South Asia-related titles published in India are not yet
available through the Sage site, other journals of
subject/multidisciplinary interest are. The list should
be updated as new titles are added.
Scout Report
Signpost [
http://www.signpost.org/signpost/] Searchable archive of
annotated Web resources as well as access by subject and
Library of Congress classification.
Weekly updates can be received by e-mail
[
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/misc/subscribe.html].
Even though Asia-related sites are not the primary focus, many of
the resources can be useful in the context of Asian
Studies or individual disciplines.
UnCover
Reveal [
http://uncweb.carl.org/reveal/index.html]: UnCover Reveal
delivers tables-of-contents for individual journals and notification
of journal articles or new books for specified subjects to an
e-mail address. You can set up an individual account
for $25 per year if your institution does not have a site license.
This service uses TOCs input for CARL UnCover.
[Since UnCover was recently purchased by Ingenta,
there may be changes to the TOCs service as well as
direct links to full text articles if a
library is using Ingenta to access specific titles.]
If there are specific journals or publishers where
you expect relevant material to appear, check the
publisher�s web page to see whether alert services
or any type of notification service is provided.
One of the main sites for publisher information is
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors [
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr.html].
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