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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

Editions and DisciplinesEditions and Disciplines

CC Editions Editions

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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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Author Keywords, KeyWords Plus

“white oak” or “quercus alba”

drug resistan*

Author Searches any author on the paper

Bergstrom CT

Wallen K

Group Author Group or organization credited with authorship

Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group

Beta Cell Biology Consortium

Publication Name Journal title Czech Journal of Food Sciences

Progress in Brain Research

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1999

2003-2005

Address Searches abbreviated author affiliations

Emory Univ, Dept Biol, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA

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