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WEB WATCHER: COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

by Kathleen Crea, MLS, 6th Year, AHIP - Information & Education Services Librarian

Want to check out the most-current news in science or find out "what's hot in the field of XYZ" from your desktop? Curious about what your research colleagues (or competitors) in bioscience and academia are working on this year? Need to know who has current funded research (and for how much)? Use these sources to check out what your competition is doing!

· Community of Science (COS) is a unique, wide-ranging E-tool for sharing expertise among individual researchers and academic institutions in the U.S. COS provides a directory of faculty or research staff (including CVs and contact information), lists of funded research in progress, access to databases such as MEDLINE or AGRICOLA, U.S. patents, and a searchable index of non-profit funding opportunities. COS can be searched at: http://www.cos.com/

· A site called "The Scientist" has put up a Hot Papers Archive, updated twice a month with coverage starting in 1999, at: http://www.the-scientist.com/hotpapersarchive.htm.

· Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the publisher of Science Citation Index, Web of Science and other reliable sci-tech literature analysis tools, offers two valuable "current awareness" pages for research scientists:

• "IN-CITES" at: http://www.in-cites.com/index.html lists "Hot Topics" and "Current Hot Papers" in biomedicine, interviews with top scientists, profiles of international research institutions and brief journal citation analysis. The coverage is updated bi-weekly and goes back three years.
• SCIENCEWATCH at: http://www.sciencewatch.com/ is a bi-monthly newsletter highlighting inter-national scientific research for 2001 and earlier. Access to 2002 reports is by subscription-only.

· BIOMEDNET, a free gateway site for those in biomedicine, is owned by Elsevier Science and currently claims to have 1,018,062 subscribers worldwide, from: http://www.bmn.com/

· CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of research projects funded by NIH. There is no charge to access CRISP data, from http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/

· NIH's Office of Extramural Research (OER) at: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm or their page showing Awards and Trends: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/awardtr.htm

· Corporate Business Sources:

• Hoover's Online at http://www.hoovers.com/ gives free corporate information or industry-specific outlooks or trends (but most content on the site is open only to paid subscribers).
• EDGAR, published by U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). SEC rules require all public companies operating in the U.S. to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically. Use EDGAR at: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
• UCONN-Storrs Library at: http://norman.lib.uconn.edu/NewSpirit/Databases/ Storrs librarians have assembled an impressive group of databases for researching corporate or proprietary data, current industry news and trends. Corporate business tools such as Dow-Jones Interactive, ABI/Inform, Disclosure, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, ValueLine and more are available by clicking the "Business" pulldown menu. There are dozens of full-text business/marketing periodicals available as well, but any of these resources are for UCONN users only.