Current Awareness Services

 

 

 

(Tables of Contents Alerts, Saved Search Alerts, New Books Alerts, etc.)

All of these services are either free to anybody, or free to OU faculty, staff, and students through our database subscriptions, unless otherwise noted.

Please contact Janet Croft at jbcroft@ou.edu if you have any questions about using any of these services.

Name

Address

Types of services

Subject

Multidisciplinary

 

 

 

Amazon.com Alerts

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Keyword (author, title, subject, by product category). 

Multidisciplinary

Blackwell Publishers

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Book subject alerts, Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

Cambridge University Press Journals

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Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

Ingenta Connect

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

Current Contents Connect (ISI Web of Science)

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Saved search alerts

Multidisciplinary

EBSCO databases (Academic Search Elite, Books in Print with Reviews, Business Source Elite, MasterFILE Premier, Health Source, MAS Ultra, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection,Serials Directory)

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

then choose Expert Search

Saved search alerts

Multidisciplinary

Emerald Fulltext Alerts

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Saved Search alerts

Multidisciplinary

Table of contents alerts

IdealAlerts

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Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

IQ (Information Quest)

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Table of contents alerts,

Saved search alerts

Multidisciplinary

Infotrieve Online

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Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

Johns Hopkins University Press Pass

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Book subject alerts

Multidisciplinary

Kluwer Alert

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Book subject alerts,

Table of contents alerts,

Saved search alerts

Multidisciplinary

Oxford University Press Journals

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Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

Sage Publications

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Table of contents alerts, Book subject alerts

Multidisciplinary

Springer-Verlag Link Alert

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Table of Contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

Springer Alert

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Book subject alerts

Multidisciplinary

Taylor and Francis Group SARA

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Table of contents alerts

Multidisciplinary

U.S Government Printing Office

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US Gov Docs alerts

Multidisciplinary

Google Alerts

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Saved search alert

Multidisciplinary

Science (Multidisciplinary)

 

 

 

CSIRO (Australian science publisher)

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Book subject alerts, Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

Elsevier Contents Direct

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Book subject alerts, Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

IdealAlerts

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

PNAS CiteTrak

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Saved Search alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

PNAS eTOCS

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

Prentice Hall Publications

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Book subject alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

Royal Society

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

Science eTOC Alerts

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

Stanford University Press HighWire

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

Wiley Interscience

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

World Scientific

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Table of contents alerts

Science (Multidisciplinary)

BioSciences

 

 

 

Nature Journals

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Table of contents alerts

Biosciences

Prokaryotes

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Table of contents alerts

Biosciences

Scientist

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Table of contents alerts

Biosciences

Chemistry

 

 

 

American Chemical Society Publications

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Table of contents alerts

Chemistry

Chemical Physics Preprint Database

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Preprint alerts

Chemistry

ChemWeb Alerting Service

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Table of contents alerts

Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry

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Table of contents alerts

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

 

 

 

Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Saved search alerts

Earth sciences

American Geophysical Union

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Table of contents alerts

Geophysics

Physics

 

 

 

CERN Document Server

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Preprint alerts

Physics

Institute of Physics

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Table of contents alerts

Physics

Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive

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Preprint alerts

Physics

Medicine

 

 

 

British Medical Journal

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Table of contents alerts

Medicine

IdealAlerts

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Table of contents alerts

Medicine

JAMA Alerts

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Table of contents alerts

Medicine

MedFetch

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Saved Search alerts

Medicine

Stanford University Press HighWire

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Table of contents alerts

Medicine

WebMedLit (from SilverPlatter)

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Abstracts of new articles

Medicine

Mathematics

 

 

 

American Mathematical Society

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Book subject alerts

Mathematics

Prentice Hall Publications

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Book subject alerts

Mathematics

Probability Abstract Service

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Abstracts of new articles

Mathematics

Engineering

 

 

 

American Society of Civil Engineers Publications

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Table of contents alerts

Civil engineering

Engineering Village

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

(click Receive Updates)

Saved search alerts

Engineering

IEEE Xplore

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Table of contents alerts

Electrical engineering

Prentice Hall Publications

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Book subject alerts

Engineering

Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)

 

 

 

Social Science Information Gateway

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New website alerts, etc.

Social Sciences

Sociological Abstracts

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Saved search alerts

Social Sciences

Business and Economics

 

 

 

Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership/Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education

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Abstracts of new articles

Business

ECONbase

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Table of contents alerts

Economics

IdealAlerts

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Table of contents alerts

Business

OECD Direct

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Table of contents alerts

Economics

Tax Research Network

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Saved search alerts

Business

Political Science

 

 

 

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Saved search alerts

Political Sciences

Humanities

 

 

 

Indiana University Press Journals

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Table of contents alerts

Humanities (multidisciplinary)

Brown Electronic Article Review Service

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Article review alerts

Philosophy

America: History and Life/ Historical Abstracts

Choose from alphabetical list in LORA

Saved search alerts

History

Some additional resources:  The OU Library Catalog now has a service which allows you to see New Titles added to each branch library.  Click New Title Lists on the Catalog search page and choose your library and sorting method. Also check out the OU Libraries Resources With Current Awareness Services page and the OU-Tulsa Current Awareness Services at OU-Tulsa page.

List created by Janet Croft, Head of Access Services, University of Oklahoma Libraries.

Last updated 1/17/2005.

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