Monitoring publications and keeping up to date in Genetics Lab Meeting – 7/3/13 Updated with comments from the session
Why do you need to monitor publications and keep up to date? Literature review for thesis Writing a paper Conference presentation Current awareness Hot topics Collaboration Grant opportunities New advances in methodology Career progression Funding body / UoM progress / management reports
Databases e.g OVID Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Save search strategies as either or RSS alerts PubMed, HubMed*, PubGet* Usually need to register to save searches and set up alerts e.g. OVID My Account, PubMed – My NCBI *e.g.s of derivatives of PubMed which have an improved search interface and retrieval Journals Individual titles e.g. Nature, Am J Human Genetics Table of Contents services e.g. ZETOC, JournalTOCs,ZETOCJournalTOCs Can search for specific journals or words / phrases
RSS feeds in browser e.g. Internet Explorer
Feed Aggregator e.g. Google Reader Update: Google Reader is being withdrawn from service 1/7/13; Other suggestions are: Pipes ( ; Netvibes ( For tablets: Zite () ( ) ; Pulse ( ) (I haven’t used any of these so please let me know if you have, or any other tools that you’ve found useful)
Blogs, Twitter, Google Alerts e.g.s Blogs - Getting Genetics done Twitter - News, comment, all that stuff from the Guardian's science, health and environment team - A place for Genetics and DNA Bloggers Google Alerts Useful for very broad searches
Impact Journal Impact Factors – Journal Citation Reports (ISI Web of Knowledge)Journal Citation Reports Article level metrics – e.g. citation counts Author level metric – e.g. H-Index A 27B 30C 91 D 13 E 9 F 9
Impact
Referencing Software Reference Manager EndNote EndNote Web Mendeley – groups, collaborations, private and public groups Zotero