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Current Awareness Service

Many databases offer current awareness service which automatically notifies the researcher of the latest updates on newly added articles or saved search results through email notifications or RSS feeds. This will save your time running the same search regularly across databases when you want to keep updated on a particular research topic.

Please see the table below for the availability of current awareness service in different platforms. Notice that the procedures to set up email alerts or RSS Feeds may be different across different platforms; please look up from the help menu in individual database for setup details.

Platforms

Email Alerts

RSS Feeds

ABI Inform (Proquest)

Y

Y

ACM Digital Library

Y

N

American Chemical (ACS) Society

Y

Y

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals

Y

Y

American Physical Society (APS) Journals

Y

Y

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Research Library

Y

N

American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Digital Library

Y

Y

Annual Reviews

Y

Y

China Academic Journals Web (中國期刊網)

N

Y

CSA

Y

N

EBSCOhost

Y

Y

Ei CompendexWeb

Y

Y

Emerald

Y

Y

IEEE/IEE Xplore

Y

Y

Ingentaconnect

Y

Y

Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals

Y

Y

ISI Emerging Market

N

Y

JSTOR

N

N

OVID

Y

N

Oxford Journals

Y

Y

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing 

Y

Y

ScienceDirect

Y

Y

SCMP

N

Y

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journals OnlineSIAM

Y

Y

SourceOECD (Books, Periodicals, Statistics)

Y

N

Springer LINK Online Libraries 

Y

Y

Synergy (Blackwell)

Y

Y

Web of Science

Y

Y

WebSPIR

N

N

Wiley InterScience 

Y

Y