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Unit 5: Alerting and Bibliographic Services

Notes
Figure 2: Here using Proquest the filter is split into its four parts. As with the Google
search the search is date range but also now also content limited to Social Science.

Questions:
1. Give the brief about meta-analysis and literature searches.

2. Explain the application of the filter to a range of databases.
Source: www.ejbrm.com/issue/download.html?idArticle=195

5.6 Summary

Alert messaging emerged from the study of Personal Information Management (PIM), the
science of discovering how people perform certain tasks to acquire, organize, maintain,
retrieve and use information relevant to them.
Email alert services offer a way to have new content sent automatically to your email
inbox. Setting up an email alert requires free registration with the publisher, vendor, or
database provider offering the service.

A feed reader is separate from your email, but still operates a lot like an email inbox.
A feed reader is a personal web space where you can log in and view your subscriptions to
various types of content.

Modem libraries and information centres offer a variety of new documentation and
information services to provide support to Research and Development, industrial
productivity, management, marketing and trade, all programmes of development of
governments and institutions, etc.

Four types of Current Awareness Services (CAS) are described in this unit with their
characteristic features. These types of service are: Contents-by-journal, Documentation
Bulletin, Research-in-Progress Bulletin, and Newspaper Clippings Services.

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