Current awareness

Examples of science current awareness services, Web 2.0-style information sharing sites, and other resources from INFOMINE.

in-cites
Essays about and interviews of researchers in a wide range of science fields. Selection is based on citation rankings and hot topics in Essential Science Indicators.

ResourceShelf
Notification and description of quality websites and tools: mobile apps, internet news, scholarly publishing, Web 2.0, search tools, and much more. Daily updates; always an interesting read.

Scirus Topic Pages
Beta version of a service offering overviews, research links, citations, and links to fulltext research papers in several scientific topics.

DocuTicker
DocuTicker posts daily listings of new full text reports and publications from government agencies, think tanks, and other public interest groups.

LiveScience
Frequently updated science, health, and technology news. Can be ad-heavy.

CiteULike
A social bookmarking site and search engine for academic peer-reviewed papers.

Scintilla
Science news aggregator from Nature Publishing Company.

InSite
Annotated law resources from the Cornell University Law Library, offered in regularly published issues and searchable in a database.

U.S. Government RSS Library
RSS feeds available from United States government departments and agencies.

As always, this is only a very small sample of the resources in INFOMINE, and by using our Advanced Search you can find many more resources, from very broad topics to the most specialized. Try using keywords current awareness, news, RSS, and acquisitions to find websites that focus on current information.