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send an email message to [email protected] with your request.
4. Journal contents by e-mail services
An added service offered by journal publishers is e-mailing the contents list of
each journal before publication. This service could alert you to articles published
in journals you do not regularly receive so that you can access the article on the
relevant webpage or via e-mail (if available) or order it from another source.
One example is:
ContentsDirect (Elsevier Science)
http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com
ContentsDirect is an alerting service for Elsevier Science journals (and books),
including Social Science and Medicine, Information and Management and
International Journal of Information Management. Approximately two to four
weeks before a journal issue appears in libraries, readers subscribing to
ContentsDirect will receive the contents page of that issue via e-mail. You can
subscribe by completing the form on the website, or if you only have e-mail, send
an e-mail message to [email protected] giving your name, e-mail address,
full mailing address, the book subject area(s) and journal title(s) for which you
would like to receive the ContentsDirect service.
Other major journals offer this service themselves, and these can be subscribed to
directly from their websites. Examples are:
Journal of the American Medical Association
http://pubs.ama-assn.org/misc/alerts.dtl
E-BMJ
http://www.bmj.com
The electronic version of the British Medical Journal.
The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
You can subscribe to the table of contents (or the complete newsletter) by
completing the form on the website. For further information or assistance,
contact: [email protected]
Weekly Epidemiological Record
http://www.who.int/wer
Available in English and French. You can subscribe to the table of contents (or
download the complete newsletter) on the website, or obtain the table of
contents via email by sending a message to: [email protected] with the
following in the body of the message: subscribe wer-reh
For further information or assistance, contact: [email protected]
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