E-alerts are published for each of NPG's publications and online services. For example, journals publish a Table of Contents e-alert upon publication of the latest issue providing immediate links to the latest content. Using e-alerts, librarians can circulate news and articles to relevant departments.

To receive e-alerts, simply register on nature.com and specify your preferences. It is not necessary to be a subscriber and you can opt out at any time.

NPG communications e-mail alert

The NPG communications team sends e-alerts for institutional customers. Sign up here.

NPG offers RSS web feeds for all of its online publications and many of its services, including web debates and Naturejobs scientific job postings. Institutional customers can add these web feeds to department home pages, delivering the latest journal content and news direct to users. Click here for a complete list of NPG web feeds.

Librarian Gateway 'What's New?' web feed

Share information on developments at NPG with your library colleagues, by using RSS feeds to deliver the headlines from our 'What's New?' page directly to your library portal. Click here to receive the 'What's New?' web feed.

How to use RSS feeds

There are many ways to implement RSS web feeds, and NPG does not endorse any particular solution, but here are some resources you may find useful:

• FeedForAll's free RSS to HTML PHP script
• Feed2JS via University Library Server is a form you can fill out with your RSS feed information and parameters that will return JavaScript code that is inserted in your web page that can read a feed. Based on Feed2JS.
• Utah State University Library Tutorial RSS Parsing Programs by Ray Matthews