Current Awareness Resources

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Current Awareness Resources

• Presented by
• Luti Salisbury
• February 7, 2005
• University of Arkansas Libraries

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Overview

• Current awareness (CA) resources and their
  usefulness
• Survey of some types of CA available
• Evidenced-based collection study in Food science
  and Technology
• Hand-on exercises for compiling profiles
• Current Contents and Ingenta

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What are Current Awareness Resources

• Resources to keep researchers informed of the
  latest development in a field
• Systematic tracking of the literature on a
  subject
• Researchers can use CA service to track
  information published in unsubscribed journal
  titles

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Who will benefit?

• Researchers
• Faculty
• Graduate students engaged in research
• Honors students doing theses

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Examples of Current Awareness Resources

• Journals - E-mail delivery of contents page from
  packages
• ScienceDirect
• Wiley
• Kluwer, etc
• Individual journals on the web

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Individual Journal Alerts
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Browse Table of Contents
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Preprints

• Preprints draft of a research paper available
  before peer review
• Increase the impact of a research
• First to report research findings (research
  priority)

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Articles in Press
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E-Print archives
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Characteristics of CA Systems

• Very current, updated daily or weekly
• Coverage of relevant material
• Flexibility to limit searching to specified
  field(s)
• Ability to store search strategies or journal
  titles in profile (locally, remote server)
• Ability to send references and contents page of
  journals to an e-mail address
• Availability of abstracts and keywords
• Availability of the authors address or
  affiliation

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Databases with Alerting Services

• Current Awareness Databases
• Current Contents
• Life sciences (1,593 titles)
• Agriculture, Biology and Environ. Sci. (1,255
  titles)
• IngentaConnect (28,000 journal titles, 6,100
  electronic)
• Article1st (12,000 journal titles)

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Selective Dissemination of Information

• Some databases that support SDI
• WEBSPIRS databases
• INSPEC
• Compendex
• EBSCO databases
• America History and Life (ABC-CLIO databases)
• Etc., etc.,

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Comparison of Current Awareness Resources for
Food Science and Technology

• Food Science and Technology Faculty Publications

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Currency of the databases
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10 times cited
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Currency of 10 times cited
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Current Contents

• 25 search strategies
• 25 journal titles
• Citation alerts
• E-mail alerts daily, weekly, monthly
• Updated daily, includes abstracts, author
  affiliation
• http//access.isiproducts.com/sales
• User ID educate
• Password mississippi

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Search Tips

• Boolean logic (and, or, not)
• Truncation
• Phrase searching (default)
• Same (same sentence, delimited string,
• same keyword phrase)

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Types of Searches

• Topic
• (teenager or adolescen) and (eating disorder or
  anorexia or bulimia)
• Title
• (biotechnology or genetic engineering) and stem
  cell
• Author/Editor
• Etges wj

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Types of Searches

• Author/topic
• etges wj and drosophila
• Topic/journal
• rice disease from specific journals
• Publications from a university
• Univ same arkansas same crop

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Types of Searches

• Discipline/topic
• Browse the index first to identify discipline
• Topic of interest
• risk analysis in biotechnology

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Add Journals to Profile

• Select my journal list from Web of Science
  Homepage
• Add journals
• Modify settings

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IngentaConnect Alerting Service

• 28,000 journals
• Save up to 25 search strategies
• Save up to 50 journal titles
• Database updated daily
• E-mail alert once a week

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Search Tips

• Boolean logic (and, or, not)
• Space between word is assumed and
• Phrase searching
• Truncation

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Add journal titles to your profile
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Conclusion

• Appreciation for the use of the many current
  awareness resources that can benefit our campus
  clientele