INFORMATION UPDATE "Helping Businesses Find the Facts" June, 2001 Number 22 A Monthly Publication of Shamel Information Services mailto:InfoUpdate@shamelinfo.com ============================================================ Welcome to INFORMATION UPDATE, the free monthly newsletter for business and healthcare professionals. For subscription information, refer to notes at the end of this newsletter. ============================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE ------------------------------------------------------------ => DO IT YOURSELF - Table of Contents Alert Services => DID YOU KNOW - Comprehensive Literature Searching => Notes, News and Announcements => Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information ------------------------------------------------------------ DO IT YOURSELF - Table of Contents Alert Services ------------------------------------------------------------ Keep current. Stay up to date. Monitor developments. Scan the horizon. Most professionals want to know what's new in their field. Following the published literature is one way to stay informed, but that is easier said than done. There is no shortage of published literature these days. The Serials Directory lists over 155,000 titles, including 8,000 newspapers from 87,000 publishers. Even Evelyn Wood couldn't keep up with all of that . So, what are the options? Many people use table of contents alert services, and there are several which work well in the science and medicine disciplines. All of these sites require registration, but it is free. You may select the titles or subjects that interest you and receive an e-mail when a new table of contents become available. BioMedNet offers a free e-mail service covering hundreds of titles, including the "Trends in" series and the "Current Opinion" series. http://journals.bmn.com/alerts Blackwell Science provides free e-mail alerts through the Synergy online journal service. Simply select from the 280 titles on their web site. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/Journals/default.asp Elsevier Science offers Contents Direct. This free e-mail service delivers Elsevier Science book and journal tables of contents directly to your PC from over 1,000 Elsevier titles. http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/ Click on Contents Direct The Highwire Press is a site worth visiting for up to date information, including thousands of full-text articles online. HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in bio- medicine and other disciplines. http://www.highwire.org/ Visit these four web sites to set up your own table of contents alerts and discover the depth and breadth of infor- mation available to you. ------------------------------------------------------------ DID YOU KNOW - Comprehensive Literature Searching ------------------------------------------------------------ Table of contents alert services provide a snapshot of the body of published literature at one moment in time. Some- times we need a broader or deeper view of a subject. This can require a search across as many titles as possible over a number of years. Shamel Information Services can provide comprehensive, pro- fessional and thorough searching on topics of interest to you. Commercial information aggregators such as Dow Jones, Lexis-Nexis and Dialog compile information from thousands of sources going back to the 1960's. These sources can be searched simultaneously using powerful computer technologies. This permits efficient and targeted mining of electronic data to find the information you need. To determine whether you could benefit from the assistance of professional searchers, call 858-673-4673. ------------------------------------------------------------ Notes, News, and Announcements ------------------------------------------------------------ Special Libraries Association meets in San Antonio, June 9-14. http://www.sla.org Bio 2001 in San Diego, June 24-27 http://www.bio2001.org Intensive Review of Adult and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology July 06, 2001 - July 09, 2001 Boston, MA http://www.aaaai.org American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting 2001, November 5-8, Washington, DC. 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Copyright 2001 Shamel Information Services Please feel free to forward this issue to colleagues, in its entirety. Other uses without permission may violate copyright. Online archives at http://www.shamelinfo.com/newsletter.htm =============================================================== Cynthia L. Shamel, editor Shamel Information Services Poway, California mailto:cshamel@shamelinfo.com Ms. Shamel is on the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Information Professionals http://www.aiip.org, a Special Libraries Association, San Diego Chapter Director and a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals http://www.scip.org Telephone: 858-673-4673 Toll Free: 800-330-9939