Current Awareness

We have to stay on top of the professional literature and other resources using tools and techniques that save time and effort.
It is vital for researchers and academicians to keep up-to-date with the most recently published information and developments.

New Books at Cornell:

New Books at Cornell allows you to browse new library books by month, individual library, language, and subject classification. You can also create a customized RSS feed to get monthly updates.

Table of Contents (TOC) alerts

Table of Contents alerts allow you to be automatically notified when the new issue of a journal is published.E-mail (or RSS) alerts from databases subscribed.

BLOG:

Blogs began as online personal journals, but they have emerged as broad Web tools with many applications — and they’re some of the most effective current awareness tools, because they allow for direct participation and feedback and are often updated frequently.

Facebook & Twitter:

Social networking tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, help you keep up with the day-to-day operations of the Library. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking tool, and Twitter is a microblogging platform that uses short, mobile-accessible updates

Social Bookmarking (and beyond):

“Have you read this new article?” Word of mouth between colleagues is an excellent way to keep current. Several services attempt to replicate this experience online.
Social Bookmarking sites allow you to save references and bookmarks to an online account, which you may choose to share with others.

Citation Alerts:

A citation alert notifies you when new publications cite a particular work. ISI’s Web of Knowledge offers this service, if users create personal profiles.
Other Alerts
Subject alerts
Subject alerts allows you to be notified when articles are published that match your subject criteria.

Web page alerts:

we have to stay up-to-date with new online content in your subject area. There are a number of services that provide alerting services for new publications on the Web, including:
Google Alerts tracking service for search-engine results that watches for online new content by monitoring Web pages indexed by Google and e-mails users when it locates new items
The Scout Report weekly reports offering a selection of new and newly discovered Web resources of interest to researchers and educators
Conferences – Locating papers delivered at conferences can sometimes be difficult, but they are often the only record of vital new research results.

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