Website updating services
Some commercial websites offer an alerting service detailing new products. Of particular interest to library professionals are the alerting services of journal and book publishers. For journals, it is possible to get the table of contents and sometimes abstracts of the articles. One example is the content alerting feature in http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/ for Oxford University Press Journals.
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Go to http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/ and sign up for alerts for one or more of the OUP journals. |
For book publisher alerting services it is possible to include filters to receive information on particular types of books. An example is the Mailing List feature on www.heinemann.com Booksellers also offer alerting services, with www.amazon.co.uk being an obvious example.
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Go to www.amazon.co.uk and subscribe to their alerting service by clicking on the New for You link in the left-hand column. |
You can find links to the website alerting services of many major publishers and vendors at: http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/information/publisher.htm
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Go to http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/information/publisher.htm and sign up for one or two alerting services which look useful to you. |
Alerting services are not confined to books and journals. For example, ITsafe is a UK government service, designed to provide both home users and small businesses with accurate, plain English advice to help protect computers, mobile phones and other devices from malicious attack.
http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/index.html
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