Keeping up-to-date

Today’s session will cover: What does it mean? Alerting services:

Book alerts News alerts Discover Citation alerts Create search alerts

Networking tools

What does it mean? The Internet is connecting everything up, including

things like TVs, washing machines, shopping orders and heating systems.

Now we no longer need to visit individual web sites to check for new content, we can use tools for this.

News, Alerts, Networking and Social tools are all the same now, for example I use my Google+ account for all these things.

This session will help you decide what tools you might use.

How to start? All you need is an email address, but you can use any of these popular bookmarking tools too.

But what do you mean? Just use your email address to sign up and

create alerts, or make a special, separate email account just for these things.

Set up a professional account, like Facebook, Wordpress, del.icio.us or Digg page. Then use this to collect your feeds. You can set these to private – so no one else can see anything.

Just remember to check this place when you want your feed.

Alerting services“A service which a user can subscribe to which delivers electronic news on a regular basis, or whenever an event of interest to the user occurs.”

Ince, D. alerting service. In A Dictionary of the Internet. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 May. 2014, from http://

www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191744150.001.0001/acref-9780191744150-e-86

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But why do I need to register for a

personal profile when I am already

using my University username and password??

Because it is a

personal service, not

linked to the

University!

Alerting options New book alerts - Alerts you to new books! Table of contents

Alerts you to the content of new issues of your favourite journals or magazines

Subject Alerts you when your specified search term/s appear

Citation Alerts you when an item is added to the database that cites a specified research article

Specialised alerts new patents, standards, etc. Professional blogs that you can follow, or make

your own!

Book alerts

Examples of tools to identify new books published on your topic: Google Book Alerts ACQWEB Directory of Publishers

This directory may help you check individual publishers’ websites for new book alerts, such as

Cambridge University Press Open University Press Oxford University Press Springer Wiley Blackwell

News Sources

General news sources: PressReader http://www.pressreader.com/ Nexis www.lexisnexis.com

Professional/trade news sources (all from

Journals A-Z): Economia Nursing Times Times Higher Education Supplement

Remember you must log in through the University to access our subscription, then create a personal account.

Create search alerts 1

If you create an individual profile in research databases/tools your searches can be stored on their system. You can then: Visit the site to re-run the search periodically, or Set up Email Alerts, or RSS feeds so that any updates that

fit your search criteria are sent to you automatically.

Many research tools / databases will allow you to set up alerts including, for example:

Emerald Taylor & Francis Online PubMed IngentaConnect Discover

Create search alerts 2Discover exercise:

Create an EBSCOhost (EBSCO = Discover) account to save and create: email alertsor use the RSS option

Discover

Display The left hand side of

the page shows how many results have been found and has the ‘Refine your results’ tools.

The right hand side of the page includes Associated Press News and any Related Images associated with the search.

The middle column of the page shows the results with symbols for the item type e.g. an Academic Journal or a Book…

Discover

The top right has the Sign in option

Results Discover only shows results for resources held in the Library

Catalogue or which are available online through the databases and journals we subscribe to.

If Discover is searching Full Text (including printed resources) and only the ‘Check for Full Text through Leedsmet’ is shown this takes you to the A-Z ejournals list on Library Online to access the article.

Remember with Books to link through to see if your book is on the shelves!

Discover

RefiningThe added value of Discover are the powerful search limiters.My favourites are:

Subject words. N

ot

sure? Look here! Also

great for in

spiration.Publication date. Do you want historical or current resources?

Off campus? Limit to ebooks and ejournals.Also great to limit to News sources and

more.

Discover

Saving results You can save

search results to either a permanent or a temporary folder.

To save a search permanently, you must create an EBSCO account.

To save records

from your results

list click the ‘Add to

Folder’ link

Once you have saved a search this way, it can be accessed from any device or location.

Discover

Create search alerts 3

Google Scholar exerciseGoogle Scholar offers email alerts.

Run a search, then look for the Create alert icon to send results to your email account.

Create search alerts 4

ZETOC (British Library Table Of Contents) is one of the world’s most comprehensive research databases. You can set up personalised email Zetoc Alerts or RSS feeds to track the latest articles or journal titles related to your interests.

Journal TOCs (Tables Of Content) allows you to save your TOCs in your MyTOCs account or export them to your feed reader.

Citation alertsSet up an email alert or RSS feed to find out when someone cites research, using:

Scopus - Just to complicate things, Scopus require you to use your University log in!

Web of Science : A collection of databases including:

Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citations Index, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Citation alerts Search for an article with Google Scholar. In the

bottom left of the article's citation will be a Cited by field. 

Once you view the articles that cite your original search you can create alert. It will confirm your Alert query and email address before you can create the alert.

RSS? The RSS (Rich Site Summary) reader is no more, because

the other reader tools we use do the same job. Anywhere you see the RSS logo (top right) you can set up to push content out to your current tool…look for the other logos now…

My favourites, which you can use on your PC, Android or Apple device are G+ Feedly LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Digg

You can even use a Blogger blog to remember professional resources you use…

Networking tools

Communicate with colleagues and other professionals using, for example:

JiscMail UK (and some international) academic email discussion lists

Expose your research to a global audience by including it in Leeds Metropolitan’s Institutional Repository

Academia.edu LinkedIn, a business-related social networking

site, can help you connect with other researchers and colleagues across the world.

Networking tools

Referencing software Some software allows you to collect, organise, cite, sync and collaborate all in one place. For example EndNote Online, Flow, Mozilla, Zotero

ResearcherID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community.You can view an author’s citation metrics instantly. Search the registry to find collaborators, review publication lists and explore how research is used around the world.

Networking tools Blogs. Set up a research blog using a popular free

blogger like Blogger, Tumblr and WordPress. You can share or store documents, images, hyperlinks, audio and video recordings. You can choose to keep it private or share with a community.

Google account apps such as: Hangouts, and Communities.

These services can be powerful communities of practice, linking people far and wide, and enabling collaboration, support and even job opportunities.

Today we have looked at:

What does it mean? Alerting services:

Book alerts News alerts Discover Citation alerts Journal alerts (TOCs ): Zetoc

Networking tools

Further Help

make an appointment with your Academic Librarian

Library Online Information for Researchers

Google account apps