Refworks Offering RefAware Service

RefWorks, the web-based research management firm, has added a new twist to its software through the debut of a new service dubbed RefAware, which the company describes as an “online personal research assistant and monitoring service.” RefAware alerts researchers “when new articles are available—most within hours of publication and many even prepublication.”

RefAware covers more than 8000 peer-reviewed journals and other non-refereed sources of information in six areas: Life Science, Biology, and Medicine; Physical Sciences; Engineering; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; and Business. Using RefAware, researchers can create up to ten separate search queries.