InfoGuides: Dissertation Proposal Resources: Stay Up-to-Date on the Literature

The latest journal table of contents

JournalTOCS is a current awareness service for researchers and academics, containing a searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). Although the basic version is the largest freely available collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents, the Mason University Libraries subscribes to the premium service. This allows you to click on the title of the article in your notification and link directly to the content going through the library's proxy server. As a result, it has never been easier for scholars to keep up with a diverse set of resources across many disciplines.

The scope of the content:

Over 20,000 journals covered from traditional publishers
More than 4,000 Open Access titles.
International journals from over 1,200 different publishers

Examples of publishers, George Mason subscribes to on behalf of all PatriotID holders:

Cambridge University Press
Elsevier
Emerald
IEEE.
Inderscience Publishers
John Wiley & Sons
Project MUSE
Oxford University Press
Sage Publications
SciELO,
Springer/Nature
Taylor & Francis
Walter de Gruyter

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Create a customized list of journals to receive JTOCs notifications.
Set preferences for how frequent you want an email notification to be sent to your email.
Can’t locate the content you are looking for, suggest a title.
Can adjust titles and frequently of alerts at any time.

JTOCs troubleshooting

Content often has not yet reached the publishers websites at the time the JTOCs are delivered to your inbox...

—so to ensure success, go thru JTOCs links or you may not find the articles.

Custom Alerts using Databases

Once you have discovered a search query that produces results, some databases can save the search and email updates when results are added. Schedule personalized research assistance with one of our subject librarians to help save a customized search that will provide on-going updates, as the database receives information matching your criteria or try out saved search alerts directly with a few examples of interdisciplinary resources.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887. Tutorial for the Academic Search Complete database.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 4,000 titles from general reference databases, including a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. Tutorial for the ProQuest Research Library database.