Research While You Sleep NCSU Libraries

Google Alerts Easy to set up Great for retrieving popular press news Decent for providing job or internship opportunities

Two Types of Alerts  RSS 

YouTube Break

GOOG Spiel and Practice ◦ ◦ Peruse Alerts Help ◦ Let’s set up a Google Alert

Alerts from Library Web Site ◦ Identifying relevant journals to “watch” ◦ Setting up an account (or accounts) ◦ Let’s try it!

List Top 3 Journals for YOU! ◦ Identify the leading journals in your field and/or the ones in which you’d like to be published. ◦ Let’s locate them through the web site.

Ecology ◦ Totally new ◦ Some journals/databases “look” different

Alerts from ISI’s Web of Science ◦ I know you won’t forget anything I say, but if you do: ◦ ◦ Let’s try it!

Moving forward Other library workshops on: Doing Literature Searching ◦ How to identify good databases ◦ Maximizing your use of them Citation management ◦ How to save all of this work