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Current awareness

There is a range of current awareness services available via the Library Web. Some of these services are dedicated current awareness databases, such as ZETOC. Others are offered by specific publishers as part of their electronic journals platform. Some are offered by electronic journals aggregators and span a range of titles covering several publishers. The most important services are listed below.

ZETOC via MIMAS

Selected publishers' alerting services

Database current awareness alerting services

Pre-print archives

ticTocs

TechJournalContents

RSS news feeds & the Library Web

The Library's new current awareness service

The University Library has developed a new current awareness service using Netvibes start page software to help you keep up to date with the latest news and scholarly information sources. The Library's Netvibes universe is an online resource which brings together lots of useful web-based current awareness services, including news feeds, and makes them easily available to you all from one page. (No login required.) You could create your own personal Netvibes start page so that you can access all of your favourite web sites and RSS feeds from one place - and send any items of interest from the Library's and other Netvibes pages to your own page.