ScanDoc is the current awareness service provided by the University of Toronto Library FREE to faculty, staff, and graduate students. ScanDoc is based on Current Contents.
Citations are e-mailed to subscribers weekly.
The Library has provided the ScanDoc service since 1990. A subscriber sends a list of keywords for a research topic plus other search criteria, and their e-mail address. The Library sets up a search profile which afterwards runs automatically every time a new issue of CCWeek is loaded onto the Library system. Citations or search results are then e-mailed to each subscriber automatically. Once the search profile has been set up, the weekly searching and e-mailing of results is initiated automatically by a computer program.