You may be developing an interest in one topic or have your eye set on a job and want to learn more about that career. You can create a space online to collect information instead of going out to search for stuff regularly with the same search string of keywords.
Current awareness services at the library help 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 : 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 and have searched and saved in a database.
* 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 online, like Google Reader.
If you would like to set up an alert or RSS (really simple syndication) feed. We can help at the library or you can do it yourself.
http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/resources/journal_articles/current_awareness/
