Current Awareness Service - A Contemporary Issue in Digital Era - Anil Mishra

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Current AwarenessService :

A Contemporary Issue inDigital Era

Anil Kumar Mishra

LIO, NCHRC,

NIHFW, New Delhi

Email id: [email protected]

Blog: http://anilkmishra.blogspot.com


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INTRODUCTION

Current Awareness Services (CAS) is animportant service provided by libraries andinformation centers

It fulfill current approach to information

Due to the advent of E-resources, librarycentered service are shifting to publishercentered service


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DEFINITIONS

Traditional definitions of CAS it is a systemor publication for reviewing newly availabledocuments, selecting items relevant to the needs of anindividual or group, and recording them so thatnotifications may be sent to those individuals or groupsto whose needs they are related

Acc. to S.R. Ranganathan Service listing the documentappearing during a period covered & without beingselected to suit the requirement of a reader or a specifictopic under investigation


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HISTORY OF CAS

In 1958, H.P. Luhn was the first topropose the use of computers for CAS.

1960-1980, Various CAS based onComputers and the use of CAS inspecific business sectors were

reported.Over the last 20 years variouselectronic methods for CAS have been

reported, for example the use of


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CHARACTERISTICS OF CURRENT

AWARENESS SERVICESNot in response to any specific query

Continuous need

Not always necessary to go to the original document

It is an announcement mechanism

Speed and timeliness is the essence of CAS

Wide sources of information covered

Recent development in a subject field are given


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SOURCES OF CURRENTINFORMATION

Professional or general news items

Conference and events information

Journal articles and books

Specialist information

New Internet resources

Official publicationsSubject-specific sources


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EFFECTIVE CURRENT AWARENESSSERVICES

A good Current Awareness service isbased on four main factors -:

Knowing what topics to cover

Knowing who wants what

Knowing the sources for obtaining the latestinformation

Supplying the information regularly andreliably


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DELIVERY OF CAS

right information right user right time right format right sources right cost to keep users up-to-date.


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AIMS OF CAS IN DIGITAL ERA

Many of the services provide very useful information but theinformation requires further filtering.

The services are not tailor-made for specific target groups nor theysupport their specific needs as compared with traditional services.

In the Internet CAS, the interest profiles or search profiles are created.

Information is filtered and organized according to the usersrequirements.

As regards cost, some of the services are available for free, while othersare available commercially.


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BENEFITS OFFERED BY CAS INDIGITAL ERA

keeping track of new developments in aparticular field(s) of interest

keeping track of new web sites, discussion

groups (listservers, Usenet groups),publications keeping track of trends in a particular field

of interest (for example by means of the

tables of contents of journals) keeping track of new research projects in

order to react in a timely manner keeping track of Internet-related

development


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Types of Traditional CurrentAwareness Services

v 1.Current Awareness list

v 2.SDI (Selective Dissemination of

Information)v 3.Press Clipping Services

v 4.Research in Progress


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CURRENT AWARENESS

LISTCurrent Awareness List are being published atdifferent level to different audiences.

These are being published by international

agencies, professional organisations and otherwho are far away from the group of potentialusers.

Eg. Current content


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SDI

q In 1958,Hans Peter Luhn gave theconcept of SDI

q SDI is a current awareness system whichalerts you to the latest publications inyour specified field's of interest.

q User registration- Creating a search

profile.


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Press Clipping Service

Newspapers are the best media toreflect the image of any society.

A Newspapers clipping service of thisnature can be of considerable help tothe scientific community and this canbe called a new type of current

awareness service.

Eg: VIPRIS CLIPSET,TERI NEWSWIRE

Cli k di M l


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Click to edit Master text stylesSecond level Third level Fourth level

Fifth level


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RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Announcement of research in progress appearschronologically

Find out new developments related to users workingfield.

E.g.- TRB Research In Progress


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Electronic Newsletters

A e-newsletter is a regularly distributed publication

generally about one main topic that is of interest toits subscribers via electronic medium


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WeblogsIt is by the users for the users

Some of these are available forsubscription and some are for free.


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Really Simple Syndication

Widely used by news content providersto deliver news 'headlines' on theInternet

Can syndicate content to third partyweb sites

RSS feed use newsreaders or newsaggregator.


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Mobile Alerting Services

Mobile Alert Services provide asimple and cost-effective methodof managing important e-mails.

Mobile Alert enables our e-mailsto be sent directly to our mobilephone via a text message.


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