1. Katherine Melling Judy Reading
WISER: WISER Social Sciences: ZETOC and SFX: Journals and current awareness services. Electronic journal access has changed. During this session we will demonstrate the Oxford University e-Journals service (which has replaced TD-Net) and also ZETOC the British Library electronic current awareness service
Katherine Melling
Judy Reading

2. After this session you should:
Be able to find electronic journal articles using the Oxford University e-Journals service
Be able to use the ZETOC alerting service to receive relevant new journal contents pages and new journal articles in your subject.

3. Using the Oxford University e-Journals service

4. Oxford University e-Journals uses the SFX system provided by Ex Libris
How to use Oxford University e-Journals
Oxford University e-Journals uses the SFX system provided by Ex Libris
The SFX technology is used to provide a link to full texts from databases and other sources where you see this
The system also provides an A-Z listing of
e-Journals which is very easy to use.

5. A-Z listing Choice of succinct “Table” and a “Detail View”
Can choose to search for words which the title “starts with” or “contains” or “exact” title
When you click on the title a menu will open to allow you to specify which issue you require or you can just click on Go to go through to the journal homepage
You may be offered a choice of suppliers in which case check the dates offered before making your selection
You also have the option of checking print holdings

6. Full-text link from within journal index http://www. ouls. ox. ac

7. ZETOC
ZETOC is the British Library’s electronic tables of contents service
Covers 20,000 journals and 16,000 conference proceedings a year
You can set up alerts and RSS feeds for particular journals, or for keywords or author names
Available through OxLIP
or direct at
ATHENS password needed for remote access

9. Zetoc search

10. Zetoc alert
Set up Athens password at:

11. RSS feeds from Zetoc

12. RSS feeds RSS Really Simple Syndication
RSS allows you to subscribe to updates from favourite websites and other e-resources
To set up RSS feeds you first need a reader - software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read new articles that have been added to them
It is simple to subscribe to a free web reader – e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines, My Yahoo!

13. RSS feeds
You will know RSS is available when you see this logo in a website or database:
To set up a feed from a journal to your reader, click on the button
A new page containing XML code will open
Simply copy the URL from this page into your reader
You will now receive the TOC from this journal in your reader whenever a new issue is published

14. Further help available
e-resources queries to
Help screens on the resources described are very useful
Ask for help from Library staff – we will be pleased to assist - ask at any Library desk.
Or contact your subject librarian – you may like to make an appointment for individual assistance – see:
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