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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 -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask]@inetgw [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:30 PM 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 [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:10 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Suggestions for news service? > > 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, > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jan Oberla > U.S. Dept. of Justice Main Library > Washington DC 20530-0001 > [log in to unmask] > Phone 202-514-7767, Fax 202-305-8700 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~