Zetoc is 10 years old this autumn!
The Zetoc service provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents database. This service allows you to search the tables of contents of approximately 20,000 journals and 16,000 conference records held by the British Library, from 1993 onwards – and it’s updated daily. Zetoc covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance, the arts and humanities. A list of journal titles covered by Zetoc also provides the ISSN, latest issue and date loaded.
You can access Zetoc via the University Portal.
(From off campus, you’ll need to log in using your network\accountID and password.)
There’s also a help guide.
Some of Zetoc’s more innovative features include:
- Daily email updates via the Zetoc Alert service
- RSS feeds from c. 40 million journal and conference records from c. 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published every year
- Links and options to full text, using OpenURL or ordering via Inter-Library Loan
And, according to Mimas (the service that provides Zetoc);
“In the near future, we hope to introduce a new, more engaging and dynamic interface and add personalisation features to the search, making Zetoc an even more valuable research tool.”
Contact your subject librarian at the University of Lincoln to learn more about Zetoc and other search/alerting tools for researchers.
