Current Awareness
Services
Current Awareness Services provide
an automated way to keep up with research
interests. Users choose a specific database,
periodical title, or publisher and specify the
topics in which they are interested. Then they
receive automatic emails or RSS feeds directly from the
database or publisher with new articles that
relate to their topics. Or users can choose to
receive tables of contents of specific periodicals
via email.
Several of the article databases
subscribed to by Murphy Library offer current
awareness or email alerting services. These are
available to UW-L faculty, staff, and students. A
number of non-subscription
current awareness services are also available
to the public.
These services usually fall into
two categories:
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TOC: you receive tables of
contents from periodicals of your choice
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Alerting: You specify
search terms, searches are automatically run at
specified intervals, and results are sent to you
via email.
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Type of Service |
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IngentaConnect:
Use the IngentaConnect InTouch alerting services to stay informed of
the latest journal literature via New Issues Alerts (Tables of
Contents) as well as Search Alerts. Over 30,000 journals in a
very wide variety of subject
disciplines are covered.
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TOC and
Alerting via email and RSS feeds. Instructions:
IngentaConnect TOC Instructions |
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 America:
History and Life (EBSCOhost):
Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. 1,700 journals are indexed. Coverage: 1964 to present. Updated: quarterly.
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New look, same resource. EBSCO
purchased this resource in summer 2007. As a result, the
database is now available via the EBSCOhost
interface. |
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Alerting
via email. Instructions:
Access America: History & Life, select
Personal Profile |
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Cambridge
Scientific Databases:
Large collection of citation and abstract databases focusing on natural sciences, social
sciences, arts & humanities, and technology.
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TOC and
Alerting via email. Instructions: Access a Cambridge
Scientific database, select
Help & Support, click the
Index tab, then click on
Alerts. |
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Dissertation
Abstracts Online (FirstSearch):
Indexing and abstracting of dissertations and masters theses
accepted at accredited institutions of higher education in North
America and Europe. Coverage: indexing 1861 to present; abstracts
1980 to present; thesis abstracts 1988 to present. Updated: monthly.
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Alerting via
RSS feeds. |
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TOC and Alerting via email and
RSS feeds.
Instructions for alerts
Instructions for TOC (called Journal Alerts
by Ebscohost) |
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EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
(EJS):
Use the My EJS feature to stay informed of the latest
electronic-journal literature via Tables of Contents Alerts and
Search Alerts. Over 8,000 e-journals in a wide variety of subject
disciplines are covered.
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TOC and
Alerting via email. Instructions:
My EJS |
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Emerald Library
(MCB Press):
Access to the full text/page image of over 100 journals in the fields of: Engineering, General Management, Human Resources, Information Management, Library & Information Services, Marketing, Operations, Production & Economics, Property, Quality, Training & Education.
Coverage: varies by title. Updated: daily.
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TOC and Alerting via email and
RSS feeds. Instructions:
Using the My Profile Facility |
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost):
Indexes and abstracts over 2,000
history journals. Covers world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the
United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Coverage: 1955 to present. Updated: quarterly.
This resource is
limited to 6 simultaneous users. If access is unavailable,
please try again later.
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New look, same resource. EBSCO
purchased this resource in summer 2007. As a result, the
database is now available via the EBSCOhost
interface. |
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Alerting via email. Instructions: Access Historical
Abstracts, select Personal Profile |
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Project
Muse:
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the
fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and
performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science,
gender studies, and many others. Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated:
monthly.
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TOC via
email and
RSS feeds.
Instructions:
Sign Up for
Journal Alerts |
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WilsonWeb Databases: Database collection includes: Applied
Science & Technology Full Text, Art Abstracts, and Education
Abstracts.
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Alerting Instructions: Access a
WilsonWeb database, click on
Help and go to the Search
History Page. |
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