WISER: ZETOC and SFX: Journals and current awareness services.

Electronic journal access has changed. During this session we will demonstrate the Oxford University e-Journals service (which has replaced TD-Net) and also ZETOC the British Library electronic current awareness service

Judy Reading

judy.reading@ouls.ox.ac.uk

After this session you should:

• Be able to find electronic journal articles using the Oxford University e-Journals service

• Be able to use the ZETOC alerting service to receive relevant new journal contents pages and new journal articles in your subject.

Using the Oxford University e-Journals service

How to use Oxford University e-Journals http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/oxford/az

• Oxford University e-Journals uses the SFX system provided by Ex Libris

• The SFX technology is used to provide a link to full texts from databases and other sources where you see this

• The system also provides an A-Z listing of e-Journals which is very easy to use.

A-Z listing

• Choice of succinct “Table” and a “Detail View”• Can choose to search for words which the title “starts

with” or “contains” or “exact” title• When you click on the title a menu will open to allow

you to specify which issue you require or you can just click on Go to go through to the journal homepage

• You may be offered a choice of suppliers in which case check the dates offered before making your selection

• You also have the option of checking print holdings• Can browse journals by broad subject

Full-text link from within journal index http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/

ZETOC

• ZETOC is the British Library’s electronic tables of contents service

• Covers 20,000 journals and 16,000 conference proceedings a year

• You can set up email alerts and RSS feeds for particular journals, or for keywords or author names

• Available through OxLIP http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip

or direct at http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/• ATHENS password needed for remote access

http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/

Zetoc search

Zetoc alert

Set up Athens password at: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/

RSS feeds from Zetoc

RSS feeds

• RSS Really Simple Syndication• RSS allows you to subscribe to updates from

favourite websites and other e-resources• To set up RSS feeds you first need a reader -

software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read new articles that have been added to them

• It is simple to subscribe to a free web reader – e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines, My Yahoo!

RSS feeds

• You will know RSS is available when you see this logo in a website or database:

• To set up a feed from a journal to your reader, click on the button

• A new page containing XML code will open• Simply copy the URL from this page into your reader• You will now receive the TOC from this journal in your

reader whenever a new issue is published

Further help available

• Email e-resources queries to eresources@ouls.ox.ac.uk• Help screens on the resources described are very useful• Ask for help from Library staff – we will be pleased to assist -

ask at any Library desk.• Or contact your subject librarian – you may like to make an

appointment for individual assistance – see: http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians• Sign up for another WISER session if you found this one useful: http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/information_skills/• Contact your presenters judy.reading@ouls.ox.ac.uk and

katherine.melling@ouls.ox.ac.uk