ticTOCS – new alerting service

Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature can be made easier by using services such as ticTOCs – Journal Tables of Contents Service http://www.tictocs.ac.uk.

ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.

You can save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs).

Check it out at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk.

There are also many other TOC services available – feel free to contact me if you need some assistance finding the best ones.

Free access to “Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing”

QUT Library has been granted online access to Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing for the remainder of 2007.

The journal covers a broad spectrum of ergonomics and human factors issues with a focus on the design, operation and management of contemporary manufacturing systems, both in the shop floor and office environments, in the quest for manufacturing agility.

Specific subject areas of interest include: human aspects of computer-aided design, work design, human factors in total quality management, ergonomics of workplace, equipment and tool design, ergonomics programs, guides and standards for industry, automation safety and robot systems.

Jump online at the QUT Library catalogue and do a JOURNAL TITLE search <http://libcat.qut.edu.au/search~S7>