1. Keeping up to date with the research literature
Angela Carritt, User Education Coordinator
Linda Atkinson, Bodleian Health Care Libraries

2. Session structure Information overload? Ways of keeping up to date
RSS feeds
alerts
Types of alerts
Tables of content
Keyword
News
Practical exercises

3. Information overload? Information sources are increasingly varied…
…and vast

4. CASE STUDIES: Problems
1. Ms Multi Disciplinary needs lots of different types of information from varied sources without having to continuously search different catalogues & databases.
2. Dr Ed Scientist wants to make sure he picks up all his favourite journals automatically so he doesn’t miss anything vital that his peers have published.

5. Ways of keeping up to date
RSS feeds
alerts

6. RSS feeds Really Simple Syndication:
RSS feeds can keep you up date with your favourite website, blogs, news events, journal issue releases etc. and can be used as an alternative to for database alerts.
For more information

7. RSS feed readers Organise feeds using folders and tags
Share single items, entire feeds or bundles of feeds

8. Case 1: Ms Multi Disciplinary
Solution: database alerting services
Includes RSS feeds, alerts and saved searches
NB Most databases require you to register for an account (FREE) to access these services

9. Case 1: Ms Multi Disciplinary
Create alerts to notify you of new material added to databases such as:
SCOPUS
CSA
Web of Science
Proquest
Business Source Complete ………
All available through OxLip+

10. SCOPUS

11. Setting Up Alert in SCOPUS

13. Case 1: Ms Multi Disciplinary
2. Create alerts to notify you when a specific article is cited
From abstracting and indexing databases such as Web of Science or Scopus
Ambulatory Care by Disaster Responders in the Tent Camps of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January Author(s): Broach J, McNamara M, Harrison K Source: DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS   Volume: 4   Issue: 2   Pages:   Published: JUN 2010

16. Case 2 - Dr Ed Scientist
I need to keep up to date with key journals in – but I haven’t got time to keep browsing in the library or on websites!

17. Solution: Table of Contents alerts
Listings of tables of contents in journals as they are published.
Alerts via or RSS
Two main sources:
ZETOC alerts
Journal publishers

18. ZETOC
Access to the British Library’s electronic table of contents of around 20,000 journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published each year.
Offers and RSS alerting service as well as search.
Can set up very simple search alerts for title keywords or authors (not RSS)

26. Publishers’ websites Access via OU E-journals/OxLIP+
Dependent on and different for each publisher platform – look for ‘my alerts’ or the RSS symbol
May need to sign up (even for RSS)

28. Have a go! Set up an RSS reader and find and add some feeds
Run some searches and subscribe to alerts by or RSS
Sign up for ZETOC
Any questions, just ask!