HIGHLIGHTS FROM PRESENTATION
Newsletters have long been the workhorse as a current awareness tool. Most
online journals, health portals, and other health news sites will offer email
alerts for new content. As well there is the weblog, the latest in personal
publishing, that mainly addresses "niche" interests. New content at
websites and weblogs can be stripped off in headline form as an RSS file and
read through a newsreader. For those who need to scan continuously for news and
updates in subject areas the newreader can be a significant productivity aid.
The other tool is the web page monitor - available as a web service and as
software. With the web page monitor one can read news sites, set up saved
searches, watch company websites, and tap into online journals. There are
hundreds of news sources for news related to health and medicine. News search
engines like Google and Altavista also have health sections.
E-Newsletters
Newsletter is the easiest form of CA. There are thousands to choose from.
Weblogs
Enormously popular but there aren't many health/medical ones.
RSS NewsReaders aggregate RSS news feeds and make them readable.
Continuous update.
Finding Feeds
See WSG Newsletter: RSS Newsreaders Deliver Headlines
www.websearchguide.ca/newsletter/030228.htm
Explains RSS, shows how to find RSS feeds, demos the three most popular tools.
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WebSearchGuide (www.websearchguide.ca): Web search tutorials and
weblog of news items. Join the mailing list for announcements of newsletters or
use Watchthatpage to catch all the changes.
Web-Based Courses about Searching the Web
Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
plc.fis.utoronto.ca/
courses/webbased.htm
Current Awareness Services on the Net - 7 weeks - April 14 - May 26, 2003
Information Highways Magazine
www.informationhighways.net
See Web Search Alert column. In March / April 2003, Just Googling
Gwen Harris
Gwen Harris Information Services
Toronto, Ontario
goharris@websearchguide.ca
© Gwen Harris, March 19, 2003
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Web Page Monitors
Set up agents to watch a Web page or check for new results on a search. Some
agents are desktop software. Most have web pages and email alerts and will
either extract the changes or highlight them.
Web Site Monitoring - list of freeware and shareware
www.webattack.com/Freeware/misctools/fwmoni.shtml
Saved Searches
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News Tools
- Google News 4,500 sources
- Altavista News 3,000 sources +
- Alltheweb 3,000 sources
- Rocketnews 6,000 sources
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| SELECTED ARTICLES
Web Alerts and Collection Development. Presentation by Gary Price to Ontario
Library Association. Feb 1, 2003
www.freepint.com/gary/olacd.htm
The Blog Realm: RSS, Aggregators, and Reading the Blog Fantastic by Greg R.
Notess in Online Magazine. Nov 2002
www.infotoday.com/online/nov02/onthenet.htm
Google News Could Change Online News Industry by Steve Outing. E&P Sept
25, 2002
www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/
features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1712373
Perspectives: Where Do We Go from Here? by Wallys W. Conhaim. in LinkUp
Digital (Oct 2002) -- Two articles about the future of online news: Do you go
online for news? and News with a technological twist.
www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud100102-conhaim.htm
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