title: A comparison of four current awareness services.
abstract: A study was undertaken to compare four current awareness services: CurrentContents/OVID, Reference Update/OVID, CARL Uncover, and FirstSearch (ContentsFirst and ArticlesFirst). The features and performances of each are evaluated. Three factors determined to be important are ease of use, health sciences coverage, and journal currency. This article is a summary of the results of this evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Falk Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bandemer
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Tannery
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000592:standards*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D007255:Information Services / Q000592:standards*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D010414:Pennsylvania; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface