Introduction to Current Contents Connect

What is CCC?

• A multidisciplinary current awareness resource– Browse and search journals, books and websites

– Save searches and create email alerts

– Table of Contents alerts via My Journal List

• File depth: 1998 to present

• New data added daily

• Contains:– 8800+ journals

– 2200+ books

– 7000+ evaluated scholarly websites

• 7 discipline-specific Editions and 2 Collections

Editions and DisciplinesEditions and Disciplines

CC Editions/ Collections

Editions

Arts & Humanities

Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences

Clinical Medicine

Engineering Computing & Technology

Life Sciences

Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Collections

Business Collection

Electronics and Telecommunications Collection

CC Discipline Editions are broken into narrower components to allow for more structured browsing and searching

What is eFirst?

• eFirst gives users direct access to article data before the article is published in a journal

• New articles added during daily CCC data updates

• eFirst articles are returned in CCC search results and alerts

• Full text linking available for e-journal subscribers

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$ Zero or one character

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Phrase searching

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“pattern recognition”

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