There are presently 400 users from various faculties and departments at the University. The Current Awareness Part 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.
Subscribers can request profile changes at any time.
The Document Delivery Part Users can request photocopies of ScanDoc citations via e-mail. These are handled through a robot account on the Library's system. To initiate this service, the Library first sets up a signature file for each user which includes their e-mail address along with other information. Users can then cut and paste the citations they wish to order from the list of ScanDoc results mailed to them and send these as photocopy requests to Resource Sharing - Document Delivery, University of Toronto Library. ITS, University of Toronto Library.