Web based Current Awareness Service Esther Ko 2010

RefWorks & COS – Research Solutions support every key step of the research cycle

What Is ? A web based current awareness service designed to provide researchers and other members of the academic community with immediate access to new research and publications in their field - all within hours of being posted online and from all over the world. o Covers over 9,000+ peer-reviewed journals and other non-refereed sources of information. o RefAware provides a comprehensive, up-to-the minute picture of today's global research. o Multidisciplinary Coverage Life Sciences, Biology, and Medicine Physical Sciences Engineering Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Business

Features Create up to 30 search profiles of key terms, authors, and/or sources of interest Uses RSS feeds and advanced proprietary technology to constantly scan the internet for new information Notification of new information via alerts or RSS feeds. Seamlessly export references into RefWorks or other BMS Link to author information through COS Scholars Universe, the largest Scholar database Link to OpenURL, full-text

How Does Work? User creates up to 30 search profiles RefAware constantly scans the web for new information User notified about new information through alert system Format & frequency of alerts based on user’s preference User reviews results & exports selected references into a BMS program RefWorks users can create automatic link to their accounts

? Creating an Account & Logging in

Logging it to RefAware Before you can access RefAware, please create your RefAware account. And activate your RefAware account per the introduction of the activation .

Creating an account Fill in the required fields and key in your Yah Fook address )

Creating an Account; Linking to RefWorks Select RefWorks and click “Link to Your RefWorks Account” and then key in your RefWork login name, password and group code in the above box

After Log-in….

Personal Profile Page…

Changing the orientation of Search Results/Log-In page:

Search Strategies as vertical stack on right (opposed to tabs)

Discipline Source Set

“Request a Source for Inclusion”

Online Help

Term Searching:

Search Results from Term: copper nitrite

Edit Term Search; Add CU nitrite

Term Searching-Cont’d; Example of Image in RefAware

“Full Text” from a citation with image

Author Search

Author Search; Scholar Universe Profiled Author is hyperlinked

Journal Search

Creating Custom Search Strategy

Creating Custom Search Strategy (Cont’d)

Show “View Full text” and “OpenURL”

OpenURL

Link to Full-Text

Exporting to RefWorks

Save in.RIS format for Export to other BMS Software

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Summary Multi-disciplinary coverage; 9,000+ peer-reviewed journals and many non-refereed sources; new sources can be requested 30 search profiles based on terms, authors, and/or sources – including custom source sets alerts & RSS feeds for new references Display of images with results (for those sources that include them in the table of contents) Author Resolver links to author information in COS Scholar Universe ( Seamless export to RefWorks or other BMS

Researcher Prospective “RefAware found a very recent paper for us that may be critical in shaping a new direction for a research initiative we’ve started…because this area is new for us, we were not extremely familiar with the relevant literature, and RefAware has been very helpful in getting us to speed quickly.” Randolph D. Glickman, Ph.D Senderhoff Professor of Vision Research, Dept. of Opthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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