Chapter G

Current Awareness Service

Abstract

Current awareness service (CAS) is an information service aimed at providing current information to the users in shortest possible time. The various media of CAS are: current awareness list (CAL), current contents, routing of periodicals, selective dissemination of information, research-in-progress, forthcoming meetings, and newspaper clippings. CAL is a type of documentation list which usually covers information about articles in current issues of periodicals, recently published research and technical reports and other micro documents on a broad subject field. In current contents, contents pages of all the current issues of journals received in the library are reproduced and stitched together and sent ...

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