Current Awareness Tools: Other Resources

Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel) is a reference manager and a unified space for writing, collecting, citing, and sharing scientific literature. It features a web-based application, a browser extension, and a Word add in. You can get a free subscription through UNC by following these instructions.

One helpful feature of Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel) is article recommendations. Sciwheeel evaluates the title, abstract, and authors of each reference in your project to suggest other relevant research articles. To get article recommendations, you must do the following:

1. Use a Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel) account connected to UNC. 
2. Set a "Field of Study" in your Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel) profile.
3. Have at least one project.
4. Have references in the project (at least 3).

For more about Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel), visit the HSL's Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel) guide or the Lean Library Workspace (Sciwheel) help guide.

Evidence Alerts is a collaboration between McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit and DynaMed Plus. It offers an email alerting system and a searchable database of articles that are pre-screened for quality and given a clinical relevancy rating. Register for free to receive email alerts.

2 Minute Medicine is a physician publishing group from Harvard Medical School that creates reports on high-impact and current medical literature. Subscribe for free to receive "Daily Medical Reports" in your email (note: with the free subscription, you are limited to three article reads per month).

Listening to podcasts in your field can help you stay up-to-date on research. For a list of podcasts by field (medicine, the sciences, and consumer health), visit USC School of Medicine Library's Podcast guide.