For an easy way to keep up-to-date on your favorite journals this summer, check out ticTOCs, the free journal Tables of Contents Service.

A new and improved beta version was released earlier this month, offering over 7,700 journal Tables of Contents (TOCs), collected from 72 publishers.  Coverage currently favors technology subjects, but more journals are being added.

You can use ticTOCs in two main ways:

1. To locate RSS feeds for scholarly journal tables of contents, and then import them into your favorite RSS aggregator or feedreader.

2. To locate and view journal TOCs and their latest content, link to the full text of articles, save TOCs to MyTOCs with a single ‘tick’, and export items in TOCs to RefWorks. In order to permanently save your MyTOCs you’ll need to register (simple, and free).

You can search for TOCs by keyword(s) or phrases in journal titles, or browse TOCs by publisher.