What is current awareness?  
 
Library subscribed services   

Free Web Sites for Alerts

Specific Journals   

Specific Publishers Web Sites

Also try the  CSULB Engineering Research Guide - Current Awareness and Weblogs

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Register free for either or both of the American Chemical Society's ASAP Alerts and receive e-mail notification of articles approved for publication but not published yet yet or Table of Contents Alerts for the over 30 ACS journals and receive e-mail notification when a new ACS journal issue is published.  

SpringerAlerts
Register and create a profile to have the table of contents from almost 700 titles journals, and for new products, announcements, and newsletters in your field of interest.  Broad subject areas can be refined, and are: astronomy/astrophysics/space science, biological sciences, business administration, chemistry, computer and information science, earth sciences, economics, education, electrical and electronic engineering, engineering, environmental sciences, food science and technology, humanities, linguistics, materials science, mathematics, medicine, operations research/management science, philosophy, physics, psychology, and, social sciences.  Journal TOCs can be requested individually by title, or, by the broad subject areas listed previously.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Register free and receive email notification of TOC of RSC journals when published.  24 titles.

ScienceDirect 
From Elsevier Science Publishers, including Ideal Library journals (Academic Press among others), over 1,800 journal titles, mainly in the sciences.  Click on Alerts and register.  You can save searches, create Search Alerts, volume/issue alerts, and citation alerts., or create a favorite journal and book series list which you can browse and search.

Web of Science
As a registered user, you can take advantage of these convenient features: Select a start page, which will appear the instant you sign in; save searches to the ISI Web of Knowledge server; set up search history alerts and article citation alerts; and, create custom journal lists for focused browsing and table of contents alerting.

Wiley InterScience
Register on My Profile and then click on Alert Preferences.  You can set up Saved Title Alerts to receive Tables of Contents from over 300 Wiley Journals, or Saved Search Alerts, to receive notice when new articles meeting your search criteria are published in WIley journals.  Search criteria can be based on keywords, author name, author affiliation, etc.

Specific Publishers Web Sites: Freely Available Auto - Alert/TOC Services

Publishers' Catalogues
If you don't find the publisher you wish listed below, check this big list of publishers and see if they offer free alerts or free mailing lists.

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Register free for either or both of the American Chemical Society's ASAP Alerts (articles approved for publication but not assigned to a journal issue yet) or Table of Contents Alerts for the over 30 ACS journals and receive e-mail notification when a new ACS journal issue is published. 

American Geophysical Union
E-Alert Service delivers Table of Contents of new issues when they are published.

American Mathematical Society
Register for free and receive email notification of TOC when a new AMS journal issue is published.  Over 30 titles.

American Medical Association Publication
The E-mail Alert Service is free and provides email delivery of Table of Contents from JAMA and Archives Journals and new listings from American Medical News.

American Society for Microbiology
http://journals.asm.org/subscriptions/citetrack.html

Blackwell Publishing
Free e-mail alerting service where you receive journal tables of contents (with links to abstracts), and / or news of the latest books in your field.  This is the public interface equivalent to the Synergy database.  TOCs to 746 leading journals.

Books-A-Million
Sign up for "Free Mailing Lists" in your favorite subject areas: audio-book, bargains, biography, business, children's, flash-point books and music, history, mystery and suspense, romance, science fiction and fantasy.
 
Cambridge Journals Online Alerting
Register for free and receive email notification of TOC to over 100 titles when a new issue is published by keyword, subject, or area of interest:  Sciences,social sciences, or humanities

Cambridge Advanced Information Service
Monthly email keeping you up to date with new titles in your areas of interest: Bibles and Prayer Books, Education, English Language Teaching, Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference and General Interest, Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Corwin Press New Product Alert
Register, select, and receive table of contents and other product information for new Corwin Press books, a Sage publication company.  Table of contents will be sent, prior to publication, in your area of interest in Education.

Dekker.com
Register and sign up for free Table of Contents alerts for Dekker Journals and/or Encyclopedias and manage opt-in for email notifications about new products and special offers in your area of interest: agriculture, biology, chemistry, earth and geoscience, engineering, environment, food science and technology, library and Information science, management (general), mathematics, medicine, pharmacy and pharmacology, physics, public administration, social science, and, statistics.

EarthScan (formerly James and James)
Receive email mailings on new titles and updates on directory listings from this leading international environmental science publisher.  Subjects cover renewable energy, sustainable architecture, waste management, conservation science, product compliance, electrical engineering, and disaster management.

Elsevier Science - Contents Direct
A free service requiring registration that delivers journal table of contents and abstracts, and book table of contents and price information to you by email.  Over 1,800 titles covering agricultural and biological sciences; arts and humanities; chemistry and chemical engineering; computer science; earth and planetary sciences; economics, business and management; engineering, energy and technology; environmental sciences; life sciences; materials science; mathematics; medicine; multi-discipline; neuroscience; pharmacology, pharmaceutical science and toxicology; physics and astronomy; and, social and behavioral sciences.

Emerald
Click on E-Mail services, then on Emerald Alert.  Emerald offers a free saved search or table of contents alert service for 130 management, library & information services journals, including a strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals.

Engineering Village
Register for a Personal Account.  When you have run your search, go into Search History.  Check the box labeled "Email Alert" next to your search, and you will be automatically emailed when any records are added to the database which match your search criteria.

Greenwood Publishing Group
Sign up to be on the mailing list to receive monthly email updates of  new titles, printed seasonal catalogs and brochures of chosen subject areas, or both.  Subjects include: anthropology; architecture and planning; the arts; business; communications; economics; education; family studies; gay and lesbian studies; grants, funding, and non-profit management; health and medicine; history; law; library and information science; literature; military studies; multicultural studies; philosophy; political science; popular culture; psychology; reference; religious studies; science; and/or sociology.

Harcourt International (Churchill Livingstone, Saunders, Bailliere Tindall)
A free service requiring registration that delivers TOC of new Harcourt journal issues to you by email.  Over 80 titles.

HarperCollins Publishers
Register and receive email newsletters covering over twenty subject areas from cooking to gourmet, parenting, history, ethnic subjects, novels, and more.   

Heinemann
Heinemann, a member of the Reed-Elsevier family of professional and educational publishers, is today the leading name in professional development books and resources for teachers.  Free product information and updates via email.  Select subjects from African/Caribbean Writers Series, African Studies, Bilingual, Creative Arts, Language Arts, Math, Science, Reading Recovery, Special Education, or Writing.        

Highwire Press
TOC, content alerts and much fulltext to many titles in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences.  Over 100 titles.

John Wiley & Sons
Wiley Email sends email with information of the new and bestselling books, products, and services in selected areas of interest: architecture, business management, chemistry, communication technology, culinary arts, engineering, institutional finance and valuation, trading, Lasser tax advisor, hospitality, life sciences, mathematics/statistics, medical sciences, nonprofit, physics/physical science, and, psychology.

Jossey-Bass
Subscribe to email list to receive information about new products, special offers and events.  Subject areas include: Business/Management, Conflict Resolution, Health Care, Higher and Adult Education, K-12 Education, Nonprofit, Psychology, Religion and Spirituality, and, Training and Human Resources.

Karger
Karger, a medical and scientific publisher, offers free alert services for books, their 78 journals, and book series.  Read the "Important Note" and then click on GO at the bottom of the page.  Under "Set your Alert Profile" click on Subjects, Journals (click on 'e-article alert'), or Book Series.  Under Subjects, select books, journals or book series from a vast array of subjects which include anatomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, chemistry, all types of medicine and diseases and surgical techniques, genetics, gerontology, microbiology, nutrition, oncology, pathology, pediatrics, phonetics, primatology, psychiatry, psychology, zoology.  Click on "Update"

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Product Alerts and Updates
Click on E-Alerts and create an account to receive the latest product alerts for new released LWW books.

Lippincott WIlliams & Wilkins Journal Online
"The best medical literature in the world" as LWW says.  Click on "Register" if new to the site, receive a verification code for your first log on,     and on "eAlerts" if not, and receive email alerts from their 200 medical publications.

McGraw-Hill Professional Bookstore
Sign up to stay on top of the latest news, books, special offers, and more from the McGraw-Hill Professional Online Bookstore.  Select from these subjects: architecture, aviation, banking, Bet@books, boating, business & management, certification/career, civil & environmental engineering, construction, consumer technology, corporate finance, database/ERP, electrical engineering, electronics, design engineering, hobbyist electronics, investment & trading, mechanical & industrial engineering, networking & communications, oracle, programming & web development, robotics, Schaum's special alert, sports and recreation, training & human resources, and, telecommunications.  And/or, you can also select from the medical categories: dermatology, emergency medicine, family and general practice, hematology and oncology, internal medicine, neurology, medical student books, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, PDA products, pediatrics, specialty board review, surgery, and, student review books.

Microsoft Press
Register for Microsoft Passport for free newsletters from Microsoft Press.

MIT Press
Register for an account, create a profile, and join journal table of contents, or for subject based mailing lists (the arts; bioethics; biology and medicine; cognition; brain & behavior; computer science and intelligent systems; economics; finance and business; engineering; environmental studies and nature; humanities; law; library and information science; linguistics; neuroscience; new media; philosophy; photography; physical & earth sciences; political science; regional; and, science, technology & society).

Nature Publishing Group
Register for free access to searchable abstracts from NPG journals, customized -mail alerting services, specialized gateways and web-only content.

Oxford University Press Journals
Register for free and receive email notification to TOC of new Oxford journal issues when published.  Over 150 titles.

PNAS CiteTrack
Alerts by email whenever new content in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or participating journals is published that matches criteria based on the topics, authors, and articles you want to track.  Alerts include citations (authors, title, journal name, volume, and page) and URLs for articles that match your criteria in each journal you are tracking.

PNAS Online eTOCs
eTOCs is a free service providing table of contents or a notification of availability when new issues of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences are published online.  Sign up with your email address.

Prentice Hall
Sign up for one or more electronic mailing lists which target your areas of interest.  Select from within large subject areas: Professional and Technical Reference; Humanities and Social Science; Engineering, Science, and Math; Education, Career & Technology; and, Business publishing.

Project Muse
TOC to over 100 titles in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

PubMed and GenBank
PubCrawler is a free alerting service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.  PubCrawler can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests.

RAND Corporation
Multiple free email bulletins and announcements available from RAND Corporation's site.

Routledge
E-alerts available after registration.

Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Simply register and receive a monthly email of new titles in your area(s) of interest include title, author, short description, and a link to the catalog page on the web site.  Select from these topics: anthropology, asian studies, classics, communication, economics, education, environmental studies, gender studies, geography, history, international studies, jewish studies, literary and cultural studies, philosophy, politics, political theory, psychotherapy, religion, Russian and East European studies, and, sociology.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Register free and receive email notification of TOC of RSC journals when published.  24 titles.

Sage Publications
Click on Contents Alert in the left-hand menu bar to register free and receive email notification of TOC of Sage journals when published.  Over 250 titles.

Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - SARA
From Taylor and Francis publishers.  Tables of Contents from Carfax, CRC Press, Frank Cass, Parthenon, Psychology Press, Routledge, Spon Press, or Taylor & Francis journals.  Receive alerts by keyword, title, sub-category or *main category.  (*If you sign up for a main category such as Education, you will receive a high volume of alerts.)  See also Taylor & Francis Group

ScienceDirect 
From Elsevier Science Publishers, including Ideal Library journals (Academic Press among others), over 1,800 journal titles, mainly in the sciences.  Click on Alerts and register.  You can save searches, create Search Alerts, volume/issue alerts, and citation alerts., or create a favorite journal and book series list which you can browse and search.

Scout Report (The)
Keep up-to-date with new WWW based resources.  An auto alerting email service is available.  You will receive weekly updates in the subject area you choose of new and notable websites.

SpringerAlerts
Register and create a profile to have the table of contents from almost 700 titles journals, and for new products, announcements, and newsletters in your field of interest.  Broad subject areas can be refined, and are: astronomy/astrophysics/space science, biological sciences, business administration, chemistry, computer and information science, earth sciences, economics, education, electrical and electronic engineering, engineering, environmental sciences, food science and technology, humanities, linguistics, materials science, mathematics, medicine, operations research/management science, philosophy, physics, psychology, and, social sciences.  Journal TOCs can be requested individually by title, or, by the broad subject areas listed previously.

Synergy Blackwell
Free e-mail alerting service where you receive journal tables of contents (with links to abstracts), and / or news of the latest books in your field.  This is the public interface equivalent to the Synergy database.  TOCs to 746 leading journals.

Taylor & Francis 
Tables of Contents from Carfax, CRC Press, Frank Cass, Parthenon, Psychology Press, Routledge, Spon Press, or Taylor & Francis journals.  Receive alerts by keyword, title, sub-category or *main category.  (*If you sign up for a main category such as Education, you will receive a high volume of alerts.)  See also GroupScholarly Articles Research Alerting - SARA

Trans Tech Publications
Free eMail Preview Service announces new titles and periodical issues before publications.  Publications relate to Materials Science & Technology and Environmental Research & Geosciences.

University of Chicago Press
New releases notification service in these subjects: African-American/African Studies; Agriculture; American History; Anatomy and Physiology; Anthropology; Archaeology; Architecture; Arts and Crafts; Asian Studies; Astronomy; Biography; Biology, Natural History, Microbiology; Botany; Business; Chemistry; Classics; Computer Science; Cultural Studies; Ecology/Environmental Studies; Economics; Education/ Fiction/ Film/Media Studies; Fine Arts; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; General; Geography; Geology; History; Home Economics; Languages; Latin American/Caribbean Studies; Law; Library Science and Publishing; Literature; Mathematics; Medicine; Military Science; Music; Native American Studies; Naval Science; Oceanography; Philology and Linguistics; Philosophy; Photography; Physics; Poetry; Political Science; Psychology; Public Policy; Recreation, Leisure; Religion; Science General; Social Science General; Sociology; Statistics; Technology and Engineering; Women's/Gender Studies; and, Zoology.

Web of Science
As a registered user, you can take advantage of these convenient features: Select a start page, which will appear the instant you sign in; save searches to the ISI Web of Knowledge serve; set up search history alerts and citation alerts; and, create custom journal lists for focused browsing and table of contents alerting.

Wiley InterScience
Register on My Profile and then click on Alert Preferences.  You can set up Saved Title Alerts to receive Tables of Contents from over 300 Wiley Journals, or Saved Search ALertss, to receive notice when new articles meeting your search criteria are published in WIley journals.  Search criteria can be based on keywords, author name, author affiliation, etc.