Current Awareness Databases and Services

BioOne	BioOne Journals Online Issue Alert is an email service notifying researchers when new BioOne journal issues are published.  Select from any of the 65 titles available, and as many titles as needed.
CLIO-Alert	CLIO Alert allows a researcher to set up a research profile and then e-mails the researcher when items matching his or her profile are added to the America: History and Life or Historical Abstracts databases.  An individual can set up to 10 separate profiles.
Community of Science (COS)	The North Dakota University System (NDUS) subscribes to a service called Community of Science (COS) for use by all eleven ND institutions.  COS is a web-based system offering customized grant funding searches and a faculty/staff expertise database (not students), along with other related services.  For more information on COS, see www.cos.com.  This is accessible from any NDSU desktop.  It is not just for the "sciences" - but for all disciplinary areas.  An especially useful COS service is Funding Alert, a weekly email on new funding opportunities in your discipline.
EBSCOhost	EBSCOhost offers Journal Alerts which searches daily and sends you an email message each time a new issue is added to the database.  To set up a journal alert sign in to "My EBSCOhost" and from the title's Publication Details Screen, click the Journal Alert link.
Elsevier ScienceDirect	ScienceDirect offers a range of email alerts, enabling you to set up personalized updates that automatically notify you of the latest article citations, search results and journal issue tables of contents.  ScienceDirect citation alerts give you regular updates of new works that cite a key article you have selected.
ingenta UnCover Reveal	Reveal is an e-mail alert service for both tables-of-contents and subject content of journals. Reveal is a service provided from Uncover, a database of current article information taken from 17,000 multidisciplinary journals.  The Reveal service is available to all NDSU faculty, staff and students.  Tables of contents for up to 50 titles can be requested, as well as 25 subject searches.  Once you establish a search profile, your search is automatically run on a continual basis, and the results forwarded automatically to your e-mail address.  Information on How to set-up a Reveal account is available on the library's web site, or ask a reference librarian for assistance.
Project MUSE Journal Alerts	MUSE Journal Alerts is a customized email service that alerts users when new journal issues are available online.  Users may customize the service to receive alerts (including table of contents links) for new issues of an individual journal title, all titles in a specific subject area, all titles in a specific MUSE collection, or a customized combination of any of the above.  Alerts are sent out on Monday mornings, and users receive alerts only in those weeks for which there is a new issue of at least one of their chosen titles.  Sign up for the MUSE Journal Alerts service by clicking on the "Request Journals Alerts" link on the MUSE information page, or by going directly to http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/journal_alerts.cgi.
Science.gov Alerts	Science.gov the Web portal for federal science information, delivers information about current science developments weekly.  Users set up an account of the Science.gov homepage allowing them to define search terms and topic areas for their alert.  Up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to the subscribers e-mail account each Monday.  government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety More than 1,700 of scientific topics are available through the service.
New books received by NDSU	The Library's web site includes a page for New Titles Recently Added, a monthly update of titles cataloged for our collections.  The titles are arranged by call number.  Also included on the page are link to titles presently on order, or recently received.
New books available from commercial publishers	Check Books in Print for books available for purchase.  If you would like to suggest that the NDSU Library purchase a book for our collection, click the "recommend for purchase" button.  Click the BOOKS IN PRINT button from the WebPals homepage.  Many publishers also offer their own alerting services (the Scout Report provides a starting point).
Other current awareness services	With the advent of electronically available journals, most publishers make tables of contents of their journals publicly available, many times with abstracts included.  Many also provide free current awareness services to automatically alert you to new journal contents.  A selected, but slightly out-of-date, compilation of links to these sites can be found on the The Scout Report for Science & Engineering Current Awareness Metapage.
Update codes on SPIRS databases access available to NDSU only	Most WinSPIRS or WebSPIRS databases can be limited by update code.  Each record has a code indicating the date the citation was added to the database.  Limiting a search to update codes since the last time you searched the database, will select only the research you have not already identified.  Choose the Limit button after performing a search, and select Update. You will need to keep track on which updates you have used.