Let the library keep you au courant of the latest issue of a journal and abreast of the latest medical developments in your specialty. Subscribe to the library’s current awareness services—table of contents or subject alerts.

The table of contents service provides e-mail notification when the latest issue of a requested medical journal is available. The service is available for any journal that provides an e-mail version of its table of contents. Inform the library of the journal titles for which you wish to receive notification and we will create an e-table of content alert. When a new issue is published, you will receive an e-mail from the library containing the issue’s table of contents. After viewing the table of contents, contact the library to provide you with—where available—the full-text article to read. 

The subject alerts service can either be administered by the library or you may create your own Medline subject alert in either the OVID or PubMed interface. A search profile on your topic of interest is created and run in the Medline database. When new Medline citations matching your search profile are retrieved, these results are e-mailed to you monthly. Contact a librarian for assistance in creating your search profile and administering the subject alert.

To subscribe to these current awareness services, e-mail the library at medlib@cpsbc.ca [10].
— Robert Melrose
College Librarian

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This article is the opinion of the Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and has not been peer reviewed by the BCMJ Editorial Board.