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Changes to Demography Library Services Offered

The Demography Library will no longer be receiving current periodicals, with the exception of a few titles which are not available through the Penn Libraries. As a result, the library will also cease its Table Of Contents (TOC) alerting service, and recommends that you use PennAlerts, a TOC alerting service provided by the Penn Libraries. You can access PennAlerts by typing “PennAlerts” in the FindIt! search bar on the Penn Libraries website, or going directly to the site (you will be prompted to enter your PennKey and Login).

PennAlerts will notify you via email of new tables of contents for journals that are of interest to you. Alerts are available for most of the electronic journals in the Penn Libraries’ E-Journals listings, as well as for some other selected journals. If you enter the E-journals browser from your PennAlerts account, PennAlerts buttons will appear next to journals that have alerts available.

If you would like to see alerts for journals which are not currently offered, write to pennalerts@pobox.upenn.edu to make a request. Alerts are currently updated and sent out once a week, usually on Monday morning. Some journals will not be available electronically immediately, so you may get tables of contents before the journal can be read online.

Although there is no limit on the number of journals for which you may request alerts, keep in mind that selecting many titles will generate a correspondingly large number of alerts. This service involves the collection of personal information (such as the names of journals for which you want alerts.) See the Penn Libraries’ privacy statement for details about how your personal information is handled.

Penn Libraries is also going to be running workshops on staying up to date with your research. They will go over the basics of how to save a topic search, how to have it run automatically for you, and how to set up a Table of Contents service for your particular subject journals.

If you have any questions about this change to our services, please contact Nykia or Addie at psc_library@mailman.ssc.upenn.edu.

Journals offering TOC Alerting Services via Email

Journals offering TOC Alerting Services via RSS

Journals which do NOT offer TOC Alerting Services