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Information Alert Services, General

CatchWord Alerts

28 August 2002. Revised 24 March 2008. Register free to receive tables of contents from select electronic journals by email. The collection includes several legal titles. (Special Note: On 6 March 2003, the home page indicated that the entire site was undergoing construction.)

ChangeDetection.com

14 August 2002. The site offers a free very simple utility for tracking changes in Web pages. Better services exist, but this one is free. It does not track keywords.

EDGAR Index

10 February 2005. This commercial alert service lets you create custom RSS feeds by company name, ticker symbol or keyword in the company name. It also provides several free feeds for monitoring new initial public offerings (IPOs), quarterly reports, annual reports or insider trading filings.

Eufeeds

20 March 2008. The European Journalism Centre aggregates RSS feeds for news sources in several countries. More than 300 feeds are available. To display them, select the flag icon for the country of interest. Several feeds display in the language of the country, but there are many English-language feeds as well.

Infominder

14 August 2002. A service of iMorph Inc., Infominder tracks changes in Web pages and RSS news feeds. It's easy to use. Simply enter the address of a Web page, or select from a list of RSS channels. When Infominder detects a change, it will send you notification by email. Features include report highlighting (pinpoints changes), bookmark importing, and keyword tracking. Limited free service is available.

JAMA and Archives Journals E-mail Alert Service

28 August 2002. The American Medical Association provides free tables of contents for several of its journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), American Medical News, and others. Register free to access.

MInd: The Meetings Index

19 May 2003. Publisher InterDok Corporation offers this complementary service to its Directory of Published Proceedings. MInd: The Meetings Index is a database containing information about meetings, conferences, symposia and other events that result in published proceedings. Topics covered by the index include science and technology, medical and life sciences, pollution control and ecology and social sciences and humanities. Select from a list of keywords to find information about events, which includes the names of the events, dates, locations, organizers or sponsors, contacts and a link to the Web site.

SARA, Scholarly Articles Research Alerting

28 August 2002. Revised 24 March 2008. Taylor & Francis Group offers table of contents alerting service for its legal journals. Free registration required.

SC Alerts

28 August 2002. The Office of Science of the Department of Energy offers a free email notification service for preprints in computer science, math, and physics. Preprints are unpublished manuscripts describing research in progress. Alerts notify recipient about matching keywords.

TrackEngine

14 August 2002. Revised 21 March 2008. A service of NexLabs Pte Ltd, TrackEngine monitors Web page changes and send notification about changes via email, mobile phone, or pager. The service provides a utility that resides in your links toolbar. Whenever you encounter a page you want to track, click the Track Me! link. Fill in the parameters and await the first report. Features include bookmark management, keyword tracking, tracking of password-accessible Web pages, use of cookie data, and more. Limited free service is available.

WatchThatPage.com

17 September 2002. Another free service that monitor, and reports on, changes in Web pages. Reports arrive by email and display changes in plain text. Alternatively, read the plain text changes in your storage space on the site. Attractive features include archives of changed pages, the ability to sort watched Web pages into folders, and an easy capturing with a bookmarklet.

   
 

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Created: 25 September 2002
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