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:
TOC: you receive tables
of contents from periodicals of your choice
Alerting: You specify
search terms, searches are automatically run
at specified intervals, and results are sent
to you via email.
Instructions: Access America:
History & Life, select
Personal Profile
[database/camb_scientific.htm]
TOC and
Alerting via email.
Instructions: Access a Cambridge
Scientific database, select
Help & Support, click the
Index tab, then click on
Alerts.
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.
