Current Contents Discontinued

At a systemwide level, the Current Contents (1993-present) database will be discontinued as of January 1, 2005. There is a 100% content overlap of Current Contents in the larger Web of Science database. (Both Current Contents and Web of Science are ISI databases.) Web of Science allows simultaneous (or individual) searching within the Science Citation Index (1945-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present ) and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present.) As you can see, the dates of coverage for Web of Science are more extensive than Current Contents. Also, Web of Science is updated weekly and will retrieve more content as compared to similar searches in Current Contents. Additional ports have been added to Web of Science in anticipation of greater usage.

For information on setting up Subject (or topical) Alerts in Web of Science, click here.

For information on setting up Journal Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts in Web of Science, click here.

Please see the CDLINFO Newsletter for a more detailed explanation:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo040804.html
and if you have any questions, Ask a Librarian.