Easy ways to follow your favorite scholarly journals

Browsing journals and scanning articles is simpler than ever with two great apps:

BrowZine offers instant tablet access to full-text e-journals licensed by the University of Toronto Libraries. Download it free for Android or IPad.
If you can't find your journal on Browzine, try the free JournalTOCs, which helps you build custom feeds from over 26,000 journal tables of contents across 2500 publishers.  Sign up for an account, then select and follow your journals.

Research tip from: Rita Vine - Head, Faculty & Student Engagement

New tool to support researchers in their choice of journal publication

As a researcher are you aware of your publication rights? Is the journal you just published in open-access? How is the journal ranked compared to other journals in the field? Lund University Libraries in Sweden has (with financial support from the National Library of Sweden), put together a new tool to support researchers in making an informed choice about journals they may be interested in getting their work published on.

The tool is called ”JournalInfo”. It gives fast and simple access to journal information through a webinterface, http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/. There are about 70 dentistry journals in the database. Click on the link above, then click on medicine, then click on dentistry. The information about each journal is divided up into sections: general, accessibility, cost and quality. Under each section are a number of relevant points. For example, you can find out 1) which databases a journal is indexed and 2) which alternative OA journals exists. A total of 18,000 journals are currently supported in the "journalinfo" database, which is designed to complement DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/, also produced in Lund. Check it out the new database and see what you can find out about a journal of your choice.

RSS Feeds for Dentistry Journals

Good news! Blackwell Synergy has set up RSS feeds for journals. This is a great way to view the TOC of a journal without it being sent to your e-mail or having to go to the journal site. For complete instruction and screenshots from blackwell synergy, click here. E-journals that U of T faculty, staff, and students have access to on and off-campus, that have RSS feeds available include:

• Australian Endodontic Journal RSS
• Clinical Oral Implants Research RSS
• Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology RSS
• Dental Traumatology RSS
• Endodontic Topics RSS
• European Journal of Dental Education RSS
• European Journal of Oral Sciences RSS
• Gerodontology RSS
• International Endodontic Journal RSS
• International Journal of Dental Hygiene RSS
• International Journal of Pediatric Dentistry RSS
• Journal of Clinical Periodontology RSS
• Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry RSS
• Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine RSS
• Journal of Oral Rehabilitation RSS
• Journal of Periodontal Research RSS
• Journal of Prosthodontics RSS
• Journal of Public Health Dentistry RSS
• Oral Diseases RSS
• Oral Microbiology and Immunology RSS
• Orthodontics & Craniofacial Research RSS
• Periodontology 2000 RSS