Now Available: Sage Journals Online

Beginning on January 1, 2008, the library will be providing online access to over 460 of Sage’s respected journals. This Premium package provides access to current issues and archives for each of the journals in this package. Sage journals cover a number of disciplines, with particular strength in the following:

• Business/Economics
• Communications
• Computer Science
• Criminal Justice/Law
• Education
• History/Political Science
• Philosophy/Religious Studies
• Psychology
• Sciences
• Sociology/Anthropology
• Women’s Studies

To browse the list of titles available, you can start here. Note that all titles available in full text through this Sage package will be discovered when searching the library’s comprehensive listing of full-text journals (this tool is available on the library website here).

As always, your feedback on this resource will be appreciated.

Journal Alerts in EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost is the host interface for many of the library’s database subscriptions, including Academic Search Premier, ERIC, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, and the MLA Bibliography. If you’d like to be notified when new issues of journals of interest are added to EBSCOhost, you can easily set up journal alerts. Once set, you will be alerted by email (or an RSS feed) when new issues are available.

For step-by-step instructions on setting up journal alerts in EBSCOhost, please look at the Powerpoint presentation (created by Michael Daly, fall 2007 Neil Hellman Library intern).

Journal Alerts – Project Muse

This is the first of a series of posts that will provide information and tips for setting up journal alerts in the library’s subscription databases. Keeping up with the literature in your field has never been easier, and with these journal alerts you can request that email be sent to you whenever new issues of your selected journals are loaded online.

While the process is a bit different for each database service (EBSCOhost, Project Muse, ACS…), the steps are very similar:

1. Create a personal user account (which is free of charge)
2. Select the journal(s) you’d like to be alerted for
3. Create the alert

We have created short Powerpoint files that walk you through the steps for those database services that offer journal alerts. The advantage of Powerpoint is that we can provide screen shots for each step and show you what you will see.

Link: How to Create Journal Alerts in Project Muse
(Powerpoint presentation created by Michael Daly, University of Albany library intern, fall 2007)