Current Awareness in the Sciences
The following alerting services allow you to keep current and informed about new literature and developments in the scientific world by sending you regular notices by email or through an RSS feed. Only those services that are either available to HSU users or offered for free are listed.
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NEW SCHOLARLY LITERATURE
In addition to the following services many other journal publishers have alerting services for the contents of journals they publish.
- ACM Digital Library (HSU users only)- set up profiles for table of contents alerts for Association for Computing Machinery journals and proceedings. HSU users have access to the online fulltext of new articles.
- ACS Publications (HSU users only) - receive notification of individual articles to be published in a specific American Chemical Society journal (ASAP alerts) or to receive the entire Table of Contents (TOC alerts) when the journal is published.
- Annual Reviews - customize email alerts or RSS feeds to receive specific notifications about topics in which you are interested and when new articles cite an included review paper.
- BIOSIS Previews (HSU users only) allows one to set up a "Citation Alert" for future articles that cite a record in the databases.
- Blackwell Synergy - create table of contents alerts or keyword alerts for 875 Blackwell journals that can be delivered by email or RSS feed; also can set up an alert to notify you when a specific article in the database is cited by a new Blackwell journal article.
- CSA Alerts (HSU users only) - set up subject profiles to receive weekly notification of new research indexed in the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, BioOne, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management or GeoRef databases.
- EBSCO Alerts (HSU users only) - establish subject search profiles in
the CINAHL
database to to receive daily, weekly or monthly notification of new references
added to the database that match your profile
- E-PRINT Network Alert Service - create a search strategy that will be matched against each new weekly update to a database of research materials of interest to Department of Energy researchers.
- Highwire Press - create an table of contents alert, subject keyword alert, or a citation alert for articles that cite a specific paper for the 900 journals published by Highwire Press.
- IngentaConnect --create subject or table of contents alerts from a database of 20,000 journals.
- National Center for Biotechnology Information Alerts - set up subject keyword searches of NCBI databases produced by the National Library of Medicine, including PubMed and GeneBank. There are a number of other options for alerts of NCBI databases including AMEDEO: The Medical Literature Guide, Medbench Updates, and PubCrawler.
- Oxford Journals (HSU users only) - set up keyword, author, or table of contents alerts for individual Oxford journals; or a citation alert when a specific article has been cited by another author.
- Science.gov Alerts - establish profiles for weekly alerts of government-sponsored research and development reports from 1700 government information resources and 30 databases.
- ScienceDirect (HSU users only) - set up "New Issue" alerts, subject alerts, or "Citation" alerts (where you are notified when a paper cites an earlier paper you specify) for journals published by Springer-Verlag. HSU users have access to the online fulltext of most new articles.
- SpringerLink (HSU users only) - create table of contents alerts or keyword alerts for 1,500 Springer journals.
- Wiley-Interscience (HSU users only)- create subject keyword or table of contents alerts for Wiley-Interscience journals. HSU users have access to the online fulltext of new articles.
Services that offer free regular email or RSS feeds to which you can subscribe are listed. For coverage of environmental news see Environmental Science Current Awareness/News.
For lists of sites that report science news on a regular basis that you can read online see Science News Sites (Open Questions)
- BBC News: Science / Nature - offers an RSS feed.
- BrightSurf Science News - offers an RSS feed.
- EurekaAlert (American
Association for the Advancement of Science) -- features news and resources
focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology through an RSS
feed.
- NewScientist.com - offers an RSS feed.
- Physics News Update - register for weekly digest of physics news compiled by the American Institute of Physics.
- ScienceDaily - sign up for weekly email updates or an RSS feed to the "latest research news."
- SciTech Daily Review - register for email updates whenever stories are added that match the topics you choose.
- Times News Tracker Alert (New York Times) -requires free registration. Define your news topic with keywords or phrases and set your delivery schedule.
- Universe Today - register for daily email updates or establish a RSS feed on "space news from around the Internet."
SCIENCE BLOGS
Blogs have become a contemporary way to exchange information and keep current for scientists who prefer to get information from their peers. Blogs may be from individuals (faculty, researchers, grad students) or from organizations (journals, corporations, newswires). Many of the best blogs also link to other influential blogs on the same topic. You can also create RSS feeds for individual blogs in your RSS reader. Sources for identifying science blogs include:
- Yahoo Weblog Directories - lists blog directories
- Bloglines Feed Directory
- Google Blog Search
- Technorati
50 Popular Science Blogs (Written by Scientists) is one list of recommended science blogs.