Current Awareness Services and Tools

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• New items at SFU library
• Web feeds and RSS
• Cited reference alerts
• Search alerts and table of contents services

New items at SFU library

• Weekly and monthly reports by subject and format.

Web feeds and RSS    

• Web feeds and RSS
• Save time and minimize emails with RSS feeds.
• Many publishers offer RSS feeds in addition to email alerts of table of contents.
• Check your favourite journal or publisher's website for details and instructions.
• Add the SFU Off-campus bookmarklet to access full text when you're off campus and viewing tables of contents or RSS feeds directly from the publisher.

Cited reference alerts

• ScienceDirect (Elsevier) - 1700 journals from Elsevier in a variety of disciplines.
• Web of Science - covers scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences as well as technology, science and medicine.

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Search alerts and table of contents services

• Sign up for an account or register with your favourite article index or database to receive search alerts and/or table of contents by email.

• Cambridge University Press Journals

• CSA Illumina
  • Art Bibliographies Modern
  • Communication Abstracts
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
  • ERIC
  • GeoRef
  • Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts
  • Zoological Record

• EBSCOHost
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Business Source Complete
  • CINAHL
  • ERIC
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • Medline
  • PsycInfo
  • plus many others...

• Engineering Village (Elsevier)
  • GEOBASE
  • INSPEC

• Informaworld (Taylor & Francis)
  

• Oxford University Press Journals
• Wiley Interscience
  • Covers approximately 1400 journals in a variety of disciplines including business, economics, finance and accounting as well as science, techonology and medicine, law and criminology, and some humanities and social sciences.

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