Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from Clarivate, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information and Thomson Reuters.
It is published online and in several different printed subject sections.
[1] Current Contents was first published in paper format, in a single edition devoted only to biology and medicine.
Initially, it consisted simply of a reproduction of the title pages from several hundred major peer-reviewed scientific journals, and was published weekly, with the issues containing title pages from journal issues only a few weeks previously, a shorter time lag than any service then available.
Author addresses were provided so readers could send reprint requests for copies of the actual articles.