Keeping up to date with new research Laura Jeffrey Researcher Training Librarian
Stay up to date and organised How? Part 1 – vs RSS What? – Books – Journal Table of Contents (ToCs) – Journal articles – News, funding, blogs, web pages How? Part 2 – Filtering your feeds
How? Automated alerts either: RSS (Really Simple Syndication) – Feeds – Feed readers Browser Online Desktop
Feed readers
Hands-on Set up a RSS feed reader. Use Internet Explorer or an register for an online reader such as Google Reader Subscribe to a generic feed e.g. – Durham University central news – Durham University Library news – BBC news
What? Books Journal Articles Journal ToCs News, funding, blogs, web pages Keeping up to date for researchers web page
What? Books Journal ToCs Journal Articles News, funding, blogs, web pages Keeping up to date for researchers web page
Hands-on Go to Set up alerts using for new books journal articles and tables of contents Try some which offer alerts and others which offer RSS feeds Is there a researcher blogging in your field?
RSS filters See only relevant information from your feed Define keywords Filter services – Feed sifter Feed sifter – Pipes Pipes
Hands-on Set up a filter using either FeedSifter or Pipes (instructions at the back of your handout) Subscribe to your filtered feed
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