Online access to 2,300+ newspapers and 4,200 journals and magazines

The Library has recently subscribed to a service called Factiva which provides access to 10,000+ sources from 152 countries in 22 languages.  Access  is available from the A-Z list of databases.  The table below gives an overview of the content.

Content type	Description
2,300+ newspapers	Same-day and archival coverage of world newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Post, Le Monde, Les Echos, The Guardian and Handelsblatt.  Factiva also includes local newspapers from every corner of the globe.
4,200+ journals and magazines	Access to leading business and industry publications, including the Economist, Franz&Wirtschaft, Satellite News, Computerworld and Journal of Organizational Analysis.
640+ newswires, including 400 continuously updating newswires	Breaking news from Dow Jones, Reuters and The Associated Press, as well as PR Newswire, M2 Presswire and the other regionally focused and industry newswires.
3,500+ websites	The world’s top news and business websites.
32,000 company profiles	Public company profiles from around the world.
Celex database	Includes directives, treaties, legislation, case law, and documents from the European Union.

Catherine Ure
Subject librarian

Access to Business Source Premier (1000+ extra journals)

Our current subscription to the database Business Source Elite has been upgraded to Business Source Premier for one year.  This provides access to the full text of an additional 1000+ journal titles in:

• Marketing
• Management
• MIS
• POM
• Accounting
• Finance
•  Banking
• Economics

Information on the extra content and how it compares to Business Source Elite is available here

Catherine Ure
Subject librarian

 

 

10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents

1. SciFeeds
Sub-titled ‘Your Life Science Magazine Rack’, which is quite a good explanation, this site lets you view the most recent contents of just over 100 life science journals. You can browse recent issues by subject (e.g. Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, etc), see the most recently updated journal Tables of Contents (TOCs), search the content of TOCs (it’s rather slow), see the most ‘popular’ articles, and if you register, you can do more. There are links to the full text of articles – access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

2. ticTOCs – Journal Tables of Contents Service
ticTOCs covers all subjects – over 12,500 journal TOCs are included from more than 430 publishers. You can Search for journal titles, view the latest TOC for each journal, link to the full text of around 390,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows), export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders, and select and save (by ticking them) journal titles in order to view future TOCs (You need to Register (free) to ensure your ‘MyTOCs’ are permanently saved).  Heriot-Watt University was one of the partners involved in developing this service, which was funded by JISC.

3. CiteULike Current Issues
CiteULike currently has details of over 13,000 journals. You can search or browse for journal titles, and then scan recent articles in these journals.  If you know about RSS feeds, you can get a CiteULike feed for each journal TOC.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

4. FeedNavigator
From the University of Helsinki, FeedNavigator downloads medical RSS feeds published by numerous websites and aggregates their content into a single feed, latest news first. This gives access to over 4,000 medical sources, including numerous many Tables of Contents, which are updated continuously.  You can also get a list of journals covered.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

5. MyJournals.org
Displays details of the latest articles in issues of over 570 popular science journals. You can also select from various subject areas.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions. There’s also a Twitter feed of new items.

6. Zetoc RSS
Zetoc RSS enables you to set up RSS feeds for journals included in the Zetoc service. You can find over 27,000 journal TOC RSS feeds by journal name or by words or phrases in journal titles. Zetoc includes details of more journals than the other services mentioned above.  Zetoc RSS is free to use for members of JISC-sponsored UK higher and further education institutions and research councils. It is also available to all of NHS England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A number of other institutions are eligible to subscribe to Zetoc.

7. My Favorite Journals
You can select journals of interest from over 10,000 titles, and these are then added to ‘My Favorite Journals’, then you can select any of these favourites to view the latest Table of Contents.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

8. jOPML
If you know about RSS and OPML, then you can use this site to get journal Tables of Contents RSS feeds as OPML files, and then, for example, load these into your favourite feedreader.  Access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

9. Ebling Library, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have produced a list of journal feeds by topic consisting of RSS feeds for 3000+ biomedical and health sciences.  You can view the latest Table of Contents for each journal.

10. SUNCAT: Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community includes links to TOCs, where available. The TOCs appear on the SUNCAT search result screen and at the top of the full record display.

Stop Press! 
11. TechJournalContents is a brand new free service which lets you to search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals from multiple publishers, in order to find the latest research articles.  About 400 Open Access journals are included, and for others, access to the full text will depend on institutional or personal subscriptions.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
@libram