During the past year we have been one of the organizations participating in the Chemical Society's experiment on the use of routine computer searches of Chemical Titles (CT) and Chemical‐Biological Activities (CBAC) for current awareness. For some time we have also been subscribing to the Automatic Subject Citation Alert (ASCA), which is produced by the Institute for Scientific Information as a by‐product of the Science Citation Index. These three sources differ in their scope and methods, but share the same ultimate objective of providing a computer‐based current awareness service.
Donald Urquhart has stated again his excellent principle that libraries are for users. The following is the very personal view of one user—from a research‐based industry—of what I have received from the British Library (BL) and what I still want.
The CAIRS software package was chosen in 1978 to meet the needs of library cataloguing and retrieval and dissemination of references to published literature, The development and operation of the system are described.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.