Is there a current awareness service for journal table of contents and/or articles?
See Sign Up for Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts From Journals Instructions Listed by Publisher or Alerting Service for instructions on getting email delivery of tables of contents from various publishers. Publishers of interest to life sciences researchers include Annual Reviews, BioOne, Blackwell / Synergy, Cambridge Journals, Elsevier / Academic Press / ScienceDirect, Highwire, Kluwer, NPG Nature Publishing Group, Project Muse, Springer, Web of Science, and Wiley Major article databases such as Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, PubMed, and Science Citation Index provide current email alerts. Free registration for UIUC affiliates establishes an account to save search queries and create email alerts. See database Help for details.