Current Contents
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abstracting and indexing publication
bibliographic database
current-awareness service
indexing service
Current Contents was a multidisciplinary current-awareness service and indexing publication that provided researchers with rapid access to the tables of contents of newly published scholarly journals across many fields.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Current Contents canonical | 8 |
| Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T388902 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Current Contents Context triple: [Applied Physics Letters, isIndexedIn, Current Contents]
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A.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library is a major digital platform providing access to a wide range of scholarly journals, books, and reference works across numerous academic disciplines.
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B.
Scilight
Scilight is an online publication from the American Institute of Physics that highlights noteworthy and emerging research across the physical sciences in brief, accessible summaries.
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C.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online index that curates and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals from around the world.
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D.
Science Times
Science Times is the science-focused section of The New York Times that covers developments and insights in fields such as medicine, technology, space, and the environment.
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E.
INSPEC
INSPEC is a major bibliographic database produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology that indexes scientific and technical literature in physics, engineering, and related disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Current Contents Target entity description: Current Contents was a multidisciplinary current-awareness service and indexing publication that provided researchers with rapid access to the tables of contents of newly published scholarly journals across many fields.
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A.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library is a major digital platform providing access to a wide range of scholarly journals, books, and reference works across numerous academic disciplines.
-
B.
Scilight
Scilight is an online publication from the American Institute of Physics that highlights noteworthy and emerging research across the physical sciences in brief, accessible summaries.
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C.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online index that curates and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals from around the world.
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D.
Science Times
Science Times is the science-focused section of The New York Times that covers developments and insights in fields such as medicine, technology, space, and the environment.
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E.
INSPEC
INSPEC is a major bibliographic database produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology that indexes scientific and technical literature in physics, engineering, and related disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstracting and indexing publication
ⓘ
bibliographic database ⓘ current-awareness service ⓘ indexing service ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CC ⓘ |
| audience |
information professionals
ⓘ
librarians ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| covered |
arts and humanities journals
ⓘ
interdisciplinary journals ⓘ science journals ⓘ social science journals ⓘ |
| feature |
author and subject indexes
ⓘ
discipline-specific editions ⓘ journal title indexes ⓘ rapid publication of journal contents ⓘ |
| field |
multidisciplinary research
ⓘ
scholarly communication ⓘ scientific literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
online database
ⓘ
print publication ⓘ |
| producer |
Institute for Scientific Information
ⓘ
linked to:
Clarivate Analytics
|
| provided |
bibliographic information on recent journal issues
ⓘ
current-awareness alerts for researchers ⓘ tables of contents of scholarly journals ⓘ |
| publisher |
Institute for Scientific Information
ⓘ
linked to:
Clarivate Analytics
|
| purpose |
to facilitate literature discovery across disciplines
ⓘ
to provide rapid access to tables of contents of newly published scholarly journals ⓘ to support current-awareness for researchers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Science Citation Index
ⓘ
Web of Science ⓘ |
| use |
identifying relevant journal articles
ⓘ
keeping up to date with new publications ⓘ literature surveillance ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Current Contents Description of subject: Current Contents was a multidisciplinary current-awareness service and indexing publication that provided researchers with rapid access to the tables of contents of newly published scholarly journals across many fields.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Current Contents
linked to: Current Contents