Current awareness services
Science and Engineering News Worldwide. Search the content of over 150 science and engineering newsfeeds from around the world. A single search can cross-search all the newsfeeds, or a particular set of newsfeeds can be selected.
Scopus (coverage strongest from 1996 to present, updated daily). This bibliographic database offers the following features, and the database's online Help pages provide further instructions on their use.
- Search Alert notifies you by email of newly loaded publications in Scopus that match your search query. This feature can be accessed from the search results page.
- Document Citation Alert notifies you by email of newly loaded publications in Scopus that cite a selected publication. This feature can be accessed from a publication's record display page.
- Save Search allows you to save search queries, which can be recalled and re-run at a later date. This feature can be accessed from the main search page.
Web of Science (1945 to present, updated weekly). This bibliographic database offers the following features, and the database's online Help pages provide further instructions on their use.
- Citation Alert notifies you by email of newly loaded publications in the Science Citation Index that cite a selected publication. This feature can be accessed from a publication's Full Record display screen. To set up a citation alert, you must be a registered user and you must sign in. If necessary, the database will prompt you to register free of charge.
- Search History allows you to save search queries, which can be recalled and re-run at a later date. Notice that the Save History function offers the option to create an Email Alert for the last query in your search history.
Zetoc (1993 to present, updated daily). This service provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. Zetoc includes an Alert service that emails users the contents pages of their chosen journals every time a new issue is loaded into the database. The service provides a guide to setting up a Zetoc alert.
RSS Feeds
You can now use RSS feeds on the Library bibliographic databases to keep yourself up to date on the latest articles in your subject area.
If you carry out a search on a library database e.g. Compendex then you will have the option to save the search as an emal alert or an RSS feed. This means that each time new articles are added on to the database that correspond to your search criteria you will be emailed the information. Its quite a useful way of keeping track of the latest research in your areas of interest.