Keeping up

Current Awareness
(Keeping Up)

Various strategies include:

Subscribing to discussion lists, RSS feeds, etc. in specific fields
Attending conferences (conference program and conference proceedings)
Personal subscriptions (print or online, through memberships)
Library subscriptions ('routing' of print issues) or online

see Faculty Services page

Tables of contents (TOC) services (see below)
Alerting services (see below)
New book lists (see Faculty Services page)
New book display in Library
New journal issues display in Library

Selected TOC services:

Current Contents (being phased out here)
INFOTRIEVE

unlimited Tables of Contents for faculty and graduate students via email
with links for fast subsidized ordering of articles

SciFinder Scholar
ingenta

Selected alerting services (using keywords or saved searches):

INFOTRIEVE (PubMed only)
Web of Science/Web of Knowledge (keywords or cited articles)

includes Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, and MEDLINE

other online databases: CABDirect
various journal publishers (check publisher website):

Elsevier Science@Direct (apparently, alerts are free)

List of current awareness services

(maintained by University Library Loughborough University)

A service of the Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, University of New Hampshire.

Comments, suggestions, and questions should be sent via email to dml2@cisunix.unh.edu .

Last updated January 25, 2006.

http://grinnell.unh.edu/keepingup.html