Current Awareness Day 21 November 2000

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ingenta
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ingenta services

• ingentaJournals
• research alerts
• UnCover_at_ingenta
• the future

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ingentaJournals

• full text access to over 1.2 million articles via
  subscriptions and/or pay-per-view
• most have searchable abstracts (1.11 million of
  them)
• over 2,700 journals
• subject coverage broadening, although currently
  slightly weighted towards STM
• free

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research alerts

• same concept and technology as the extremely
  popular AutoJournals that BIDS ran for ISI
• the user selects the journals they want
• TOC information is e-mailed to them when the data
  is loaded
• free
• DEMO

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typical research alerts e-mail

• Abacus
• On 06 Sep 2000, Issue 2 (Volume 36) was updated
  into ingentaJournals.
• View this issue at
• http//www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/abac/20
  00/00000036/00000002?modedirect
• If you no longer wish to receive these
  notifications, click here
• http//www.ingentaJournals.bids.ac.uk/JnlLists
  /servlet/AJLStart?token00281c2add7f5e0eafe2642063
  73630bafd64782
• to amend your Research Alerts profile.

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UnCover_at_ingenta

• leading article access and document delivery
  provider for academic and research libraries in
  the US
• multidisciplinary citation and abstract database
  for nearly 10 million articles (18,000 journals)
  from 1988
• link to online full text copy of articles in
  ingenta, or order copies by fax
• free

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the future

• ingentaJournals and UnCover_at_ingenta will be
  integrated by Easter 2001
• research alerts will cover the new database

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ingenta