1. Research While You Sleep NCSU Libraries

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

3. Two Types of Alerts  RSS  Email

4. YouTube Break http://youtu.be/0klgLsSxGsU

5. GOOG Spiel and Practice ◦ http://www.google.com/alerts http://www.google.com/alerts ◦ Peruse Alerts Help ◦ Let’s set up a Google Alert

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

7. 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.

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

9. Alerts from ISI’s Web of Science ◦ I know you won’t forget anything I say, but if you do: ◦ http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/Web_of_Science ◦ Let’s try it!

10. 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