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Health Information & Libraries JournalVolume 18, Issue 2 p. 125-125 Free Access Introduction First published: 18 July 2008 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-1842.2001.d01-22.xCitations: 2AboutSections ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Betsy Anagnostelis, Librarian, Medical Library, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and Royal Free and University College Medical School of UCL, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK Several services have recently become available which aim to provide access to journal electronic tables of contents. Some of the better known products, such as Current Contents, UnCoverWeb, zetoc, etc., offer a current awareness service across several thousand journals and cover all major disciplines. Although such services are fairly up-to-date in their coverage, nonetheless e-mail table of content (e-toc) alerts received directly from publishers’ sites are often far more so, occasionally providing information in advance of publication. A further major advantage of registering to receive e-toc alerts directly from the publisher is the ability to click and go from the e-mail message straight to the full text of selected journal articles, wherever hypertext links are provided from the e-toc alert message. This ability to directly view a full text article of interest makes for a service that is becoming increasingly popular with researchers and scientists in biomedicine. In the article that follows, Steven Glover describes precisely how such publisher-based e-toc alert services have been promoted in a busy research institute environment, with the Library taking a lead in integrating them with the range of full text journals to which a subscription is available. With the model described here, the level of current awareness service provision is developed beyond that possible with a traditional paper-based approach. Furthermore, such a model is also capable of generating information that may be used by the Library in maintaining or expanding its existing journal subscription base. The benefits to the user are particularly highlighted below. References 1 Current Contents . <http://www.isinet.com/isi/products/>. Google Scholar 2 UnCoverWeb . <http://uncweb.carl.org/>. Google Scholar 3 zetoc . Electronic table of contents from the British Library. <http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/>. Google Scholar Citing Literature Volume18, Issue2June 2001Pages 125-125 ReferencesRelatedInformation