Gerry,

In response to your e-mail requesting details of alerting/SDI and Table of
Contents  searching, may I bring to your attention a system called TDNet,
which appears to fit your requirements.

TDNet offers the following :

An interface allowing access to ALL e-journals, irrespective of publisher,
vendor, aggregator or other supplier;
Maintenance of access to relevant URL's on supplier's individual websites
sites;
Table of Contents for all titles on the system, both electronic, print and
also titles to which the institution does not subscribe;
End-users may set up their own individual private sub-set of titles and can
request alerts by e-mail for journal issues, article titles keywords,
authors, journal titles and publishers;
Comprehensive statistical usage detail, searchable by a number of criteria,
including journal, publisher, vendor, IP address and personal profile. It
will also compile statistics on peak usage.
TDNet does not at present offer alerts by subject, but this will be
available in the very near future (approximately one month). Subject
classification will be by Library of Congress (to the third level) and
should meet your criteria.

May I suggest you logon to the TDNet website ( www.tdnet.com ) and have a
look at the system. If you link into the TDNet demo logon, you can request
a username and password which will allow you use it in demonstration mode,
including TOC searching and alerting.

Should you require further details about TDNet, may I suggest that you
contact our Sales Manager in the US, Bob Schatz, who can be contacted by
e-mail ([log in to unmask]) or telephone (503 287 4722). Alternatively,
please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like me to supply more
details.

I hope this is useful to you.

Keith Renwick.


At 02:59 PM 1/21/01 -0600, you wrote:
>                            _Mega-Alerting Services_
>
>    I am greatly interested  in identifying e-journals that offer
>Alerting/SDI services that include *not only* the Table of Contents of the
current issue (or personalized version of such) _but also_  a separate (or
combined) Alerting/SDI service for other communication venues associated
with the e-journal  (e.g., electronic discussion lists, discussion forums,
reader commentary, etc.) as they take place within or outside of the
e-journal.
>
>    For examples of the various types of e-journal discourse, please see
>my latest Web registry _EJI(sm)_ devoted to "Innovative E-Journal
Features, Functionalities, and Content"
>
> [  http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm]
>
>    I am also interested in Any and All *subject/discipline* e-journal
Alerting / SDI services, particularly those offered by any of the
Aggregators, as well as those  that one to receive Alerts from potentially
all  e-journals offered by a publisher or aggregator WITHOUT having to
establish a interest profile within *individual* e-journals.
>
>[NOTE: Other novel Alerting/SDI services are also of interest]
>
>   As Always, Any and All contributions. comments, queries, questions,
critiques, cosmic insights, lengthy inaugural speeches, etc., etc., etc.
are Most Welcome!
>
>/Gerry McKiernan
>Mega Librarian
>Iowa State University
>Ames IA 50011
>
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>
>
Keith D. Renwick,
UK Sales Manager,
Everetts,
Address :
"Cartref",
18 Cromwell Road,
Stretford,
Manchester M32 8QX.
Tel.0161 865 1946.
Fax : 0161 865 2008.
Mobile 07887 933226
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