1. Vendor services for current awareness services Laila jarkhi

4. Outline Definition of Current awareness service Definition of vendor Examples of Vendor services in current awareness services. Advantages of Vendor services in current awareness services. Conclusion

5. Definition of Vendor A company in the business of providing access to a selection of bibliographic databases, online or on CD-ROM, by subscription or on a per search basis usually under licensing agreement. Providers of non print media are also referred to as vendors.

6. Definition of Current awareness services A service or publication designed to alert scholars, researchers, readers, customers to recently published literature in their field of specialization, usually available in special libraries serving companies, organizations in which access to current information is essential.

7. Current Awareness Services Many publishers, online resources (including research databases and article indexes) and e-journal packages now provide electronic current awareness services. Services include: Table of contents- search alerts- citation alerts- RSS alerts

8. Tables of contents alerts: tables of contents of journal issues provided to you when new issues are published. These are also known as TOC alerts, new issue alerts, or publication alerts. Search alerts: a previously run search is automatically run in a database with the results of new items in the database provided to you. These are also known as keyword alerts.

9. Citation alerts: notification when an article has been cited in a particular online resource. These are sometimes called author alerts. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPorta l/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLab el=JournalPage&logoutLink=false

10. RSS general alerts: aside from tables of contents, search and citation alerts being available as an RSS feed through many online resources, RSS alerts with pre-set topics are also available for subscription from some publishers, databases, or websites. http://news.google.com/nwshp

11. Current Awareness Services Current Awareness Services Current awareness services: Help faculty, students & staff keep informed of new journal, books, etc. issues and articles in their research area through email or any contact info. Are of no cost to faculty, students and staff Are provided by some of online vendors

12. http://www.amazon.com horizon by sirsidynix: http://library.kuniv.edu.kw:81/ ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=central &menu=search#focus horizon by sirsidynix: http://library.kuniv.edu.kw:81/ ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=central &menu=search#focus http://library.kuniv.edu.kw:81/ ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=central &menu=search#focus http://library.kuniv.edu.kw:81/ ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=central &menu=search#focus

14. Advantages of Vendor services for current awareness services It will reduce cost of ordering articles or any document if ordered on an institution basis like universities. It will reduce time of receiving documents electronically from vendors. It can be updated anytime and easy maintenance from vendors to users. It will develop the skills of librarians in that field.

15. Conclusion It is very essential to use new technologies to improve the services in libraries. A co-operation should be taken into account between vendors and libraries to enhance the quality of services and to help users in easy access and easy too communicate. A co-operation should be there between similar libraries to present services from vendors such between Kuwait university and Kuwait public authority applied education and training to reduce the cost of services.

16. Links: Ehrman medical library http://library.med.nyu.edu/library/instructio n/handouts/pdf/autoalertgrid.pdf tripod http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/trico/alerts.sht ml dialogue http://www.dialoguejournal.com/content/

17. References Current awareness services, university of calgary(2009) retrieved from: http://library.ucalgary.ca/awareness Investorwords.com http://www.investorwords.com/5234 /vendor.htmlhttp://www.investorwords.com/5234 /vendor.html