University of Guelph Library
Current awareness services assist students and researchers in keeping up-to-date with current literature in particular subject areas.
Current awareness services are provided electronically and take various forms, such as:
- Table of Contents or TOC-based alerting services: when a new issue of a particular journal is published, its table of contents is emailed to the subscriber; links to full-text articles may be provided if an electronic subscription exists
- Saved Searches alerting services: receive timely notification about research topics you care about
- Web Feed or RSS-based services: avoid spam and email clutter by having journal alerts, table of contents and other new content sent to a separate reader which you can then browse at your leisure