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AAE 780: Research Colloquium (Spring 2025) : Keeping Current

How do you stay current with the literature in your discipline?

If you find this challenging, librarians have the tools to help. (While many staff enjoy the DIY-approach, your librarian can work with you to customize a topic or table-of contents strategy using the licensed literature databases).

Do you want to….

  • Browse the current issue of your favorite journals or magazines.
  • Get email messages about newly-published research on a topic of interest.
  • Get notified when your published article is cited by other researchers.
  • Get notified of other content including funding opportunities.

Table of Contents Services (your favorite or essential journals)

Publisher Websites
Set up TOC notifications from the publisher page of the journal you want to follow (often provided as a complimentary service).

JournalTOCs (scholarly journal TOC notifications)
Created in 2009, this Initiative of Heriot-Watt University supplies a searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). Create your own (free) login to receive TOCs from a large and varied selection of journals. 

Database Alerts (Current Contents, Web of Science, among others)
Construct a search for a source (journal) title. Save this search as guided by database as a search alert (generally as email).
Instructions to set up a Journal Alert using Web of Science.

Research Topic Alerts

Many of the library-licensed databases and Google Scholar enable you to create a personal login to access the product's value-added features.

Once you have generated a productive search, you can create an alert that will automatically run that search at an interval of your choice and return new results by e-mail. 

The advantage to a topic alert is that it will pull research literature from multiple journals when new content matching your search criteria is indexed by the database.

Citation Alerts

Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar enable you to create citation alerts that notify you when a specific article has been cited by a new article. Each product will require that you create an account or, as with Google Scholar, a profile.

  • Instructions to set up a author or document citation alert using Scopus. 
  • Instructions to set up a citation alert in Web of Science. 
  • Instructions to save a citation alert, "My Citations" using Google Scholar.

Browse Agricultural and Resource Economics Journals

BrowZine is available for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. BrowZine lets you browse, read, save, and monitor scholarly journals in your subject areas on your mobile device or desktop/laptop.

journal cover illustrations, Browzine shelf

If browsing from the Web version, select "Business and Economics" then "Economics" in order to select "Agricultural and Resource Economics".

Funding Opportunities, Grants

Pivot-RP
Platform for researchers and administrators to identify new funding opportunities and potential collaborators. Access note: While anyone on campus can use this resource, only faculty, staff, and students with a valid wisc.edu address can save data from it.

  • Create an account to track and share opportunities, save searches, and receive alerts.

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