Information overload is real for researchers. Thousands of journal articles and research papers are published each week, particularly in the STeM subject areas, and it can be difficult to keep up to date with the amount of information being produced. For example, over three million peer-reviewed papers were published in 2018 alone, and annual growth has accelerated to 4% in recent years (STM Report 2018).
A current awareness service keeps its users up to date in their field and alerts the student or researcher to the latest information on an ongoing basis. There are a wide range of current awareness services to keep you updated when new information is published in your area of interest. Once an account is set up, the information is pushed at a specified frequency by the user (daily, weekly, monthly) via email or a RSS feed.
The main types of updates offered are:
The main types of services are:
