With so many publishers placing their catalogues or the full text of journals online, there are a number of alerting services which can assist you in keeping up with publishing in Asian Studies and various disciplines. There are also alerting services connected with many Web sites. New book titles, Web resources, and/or tables-of-content are e-mailed according to individual profiles or general categories. Some of the major alerting services are listed below.
AAUP (American Association of University Presses) New Releases: [http://aaup.uchicago.edu/new_releases/] Select specific subject areas, including Asian Studies, and receive notices of new titles published by numerous university presses as the volumes are released. Each subject can be searched at the same page to review titles from the past few weeks.
Asia Bulletin from the Asia Society's online resource, Asia Source: [http://www.asiasource.org/bulletins/profilemain.cfm] Create a profile for e-mail notification of news, Web pages, books, etc. identified by staff of the Asia Society.
Asian Studies WWW Monitor:
[http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html] Daily announcements with evaluation of new Asian resources on the web, distributed by Matthew Ciolek. Many announcements are included in H-ASIA postings, but instructions for subscriptions are given at the URL above. Site includes a searchable archive.
Cambridge University Press journals:
[http://www.journals.cambridge.org]
Select titles such as Modern Asian Studies and receive TOCs by e-mail. You must register and login to create a list. In some cases, full text of articles will be accessible.
CISTI Source: http://swetscan.cisti.nrc.ca:2000/CISTI/SOURCE/SMENU] Not an alerting service, this database allows searching by article, contents, or journal title. Especially strong for European journals, Asia-related titles include Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Indian Economic and Social History Review, and Japanese Religions.
Contents First: [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/c.html] Not an alerting service, this database can be searched by journal title and subject to view TOCs by individual issue; it includes approx. 13,000 journal titles. Try Contents First if a specific title doesn't seem to be included in any TOC service.
EBSCOhost databases: Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier, among others, will soon allow one to save searches and have them rerun at regular intervals with notification on new research e-mailed to the user. Both these databases are available from the Indexes to Articles page of UTLOL.
Frontlist: [http://www.Frontlist.com/contact/notice.htm] Frontlist Newsletter and Book Notification Service: An online bookstore in North Carolina, subjects include Asian Studies, (Post)Colonial Studies, and Feminist Theory.
Ingenta/UnCover Reveal: [http://www.ingenta.com] UnCover was purchased by Ingenta and the TOC/Alerting services are merging. At the web page, click on the UnCover icon of an open book. Then click on How to set up and delete research and TOC Alerts for instructions on setting up a profile.
Kluwer Alert: [http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/ALERT] Select journals, including the Indo-Iranian Journal or the Journal of East Asian Linguistics, by subject or title or book series and receive contents alerts.
Northern Light Search Alert Service:
[http://standard.northernlight.com/cgi-bin/cl_alert.pl] Will send e-mail notification of Web pages or Special Collection documents added to their online collections. The Alert service is free, but using/retrieving some documents may incur costs.
Oxford University press Journals: [http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/tocmail/] Select titles such as China Quarterly or Social Science Japan Journal and receive TOCs by e-mail. Not all journals are available online with full text.
SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting: [http://www.catchword.co.uk/sara] Select titles from Carfax, Routledge and other publishers, such as Asian Philosophy, Contemporary South Asia, Journal of Contemporary China, or Japanese Studies and receive TOCs by e-mail. Service allows choices by title or subject.
Sage Publications Contents Alert: [http://www.sagepub.co.uk/] Although none of the Sage journals are Asia-specific, many of them regularly include articles with Asian content. Click on Contents Alerting Service to set up a profile.
Scout Report Signpost: [http://www.signpost.org/signpost/] Searchable archive of annotated Web resources as well as access by subject and Library of Congress classification. Weekly updates can be received by e-mail [http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/misc/subscribe.html]. Even though Asia-related sites are not the primary focus, many of the resources can be useful in the context of Asian Studies or individual disciplines.
UNESCO has now made the Index Translationum (1979-to date) available online free of charge. The URL is: http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/. A link directly to the search page is at: http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/xtra-form.html. The description from UNESCO is as follows:
INDEX TRANSLATIONUM data base contains cumulative bibliographical information about books translated and published in about a hundred of UNESCO Member States from 1979, totalizing some 1.300.000 notices in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history, etc. A quarterly update is planned.
This database is useful if trying to locate translations to or from specific languages, translations by specific individuals, or published by specific firms. For instance, a search on Kalidasa retrieves 100 records; a search on Lu Hsun retrieves 55 records.
For editions prior to 1979, we use RLIN's Union Catalog, OCLC WorldCat and the print set of the National Union Catalog pre-1956. We also have print copies of the earlier Index Translationum in the stacks.
If there are specific journals or publishers where you expect relevant material to appear, check the publisher's web page to see whether alerting services or any type of notification service is provided. One of the main sites for publisher information is AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors [http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr.html].