Since there was interest, I will share the responses from others to my question about news alert services. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to respond.
I should have been clearer in my posting, however. Our specific need is for a _push_ service, wherein you set up categories and receive email notifications of new additions, rather than those were you go to a site or database and pick up what's there.
The following may be a mixture of both _push_ and _pull_:
* CNN provides a good "pull" technology free product, called my CNN. Once you register (free) you can set up myCNN to automatically bring up articles from the areas you're interested in.
* For paid "push" services, both Lexis-Nexis and Dialog provide e-mail "alerts". These have to be set up, but once they get going they're pretty good.
* Factiva http://factiva.com
* Clipping services - Burelle's, and Bacon's
* Yahoo's news alerts http://alerts.yahoo.com/config/set_notification?.t=n
* NewsEdge http://www.newsedge.com/flash.asp
* Top News Headlines http://www.1stheadlines.com/index.htm, a free news service that
can be searched by subject. Both of these services have to be monitored by
someone since they do not deliver information to your mailbox.
* Fedlink's page of news vendors http://lcweb.loc.gov/flicc/svcsub2.html#News
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To: Oberla, Janet L
Subject: FW: Suggestions for news service?
Pls summarize the responses you receive for the list.
Thanks!
Carol Wong
Librarian
US Patent & Trademark Office
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> Hi,
> Do any of you have recommendations for an online delivery service
> of news "clippings"? We are interested in selecting categories or topics
> for news stories in advance, but want them from newswires and same day
> sources, rather than things already in print - to get a jump on the news
> that will be hitting print later on. Does that make sense? I hope
> that's somewhat clear. Please contact me directly with ideas, unless you
> think they would be of sufficient interest to the list.
>
> Thanks,
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> Jan Oberla
> U.S. Dept. of Justice Main Library
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