The use of external data bases to extend current awareness services based on internal resources at AERE Harwell

Most of us in the last few years have been faced with providing information services with reduced staff and smaller budgets. I will describe how we have met this problem in an information service operating in a large research establishment, particularly by introducing a computerized SDI system, partly to replace, partly to extend, a current awareness service based originally on an extensive visual scanning of the literature.