1. Keeping up to date with the Literature
Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources
Keeping up to date with the Literature
Linda Atkinson - Health Care Libraries
Gill Cooper - Radcliffe Science Library
Katherine Melling - Taylor Institution Library

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Demonstrations
British Library Zetoc: Electronic table of contents: Database covers the British Library ‘s Document Supply Centre’s intake of journals. (LA)
CSA Illumina (LA)

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Demonstrations
TdNet: Covers the electronic full text journals available in Oxford. (GC)
Electronic Reference Library: A group of databases in Science and Social Science (GC)
Scopus (GC)

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Demonstrations
Web of Knowledge (KM)
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (KM)

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OxLip
All services demonstrated can be found on OxLip

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ZETOC
ZETOC: British Library: Electronic Table of Contents
+ + + Broad coverage.
Easy to set up.
Easy to modify and extend
- - - Not so timely as some as it depends on BL input
Does not give full text access

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CSA Illumina
+++ Good range of databases, arts to sciences
Easy to use and set up across databases
Active Links with full text
Not to be used for journal contents pages
Timeliness dependent on chosen database

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TDNet
Automatically sends weekly updates
Only covers journals taken in electronic form in Oxford
It works on the LOCAL tables of contents (TOCs) and does not cover quite all the titles in TDNet
Keyword profiling is a bit limited

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Electronic Reference Library
The Electronic Reference Library (ERL) includes a number of databases in the Sciences and Social Sciences
It can be accessed in various ways, but to run the updating option the WebSpirs option must be used
Once a month you will be sent an from OVID containing your results.

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Scopus
New service from Elsevier
Based on Embase and Geobase
Fairly standard procedures for updates
Can use ATHENS usernames and passwords (but probably better not to

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Web of Knowledge
Broad coverage of all subject areas
Three ways to keep up to date:
alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and the results ed to you at chosen intervals
saving and rerunning searches – you can save a search and run it again in the future
Citation Alert – you will receive an every time a particular article is cited in another WoK-indexed article

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International Bibliography of the
Social Sciences
Available through OVID
Impressive coverage in the fields of economics, anthropology, politics and sociology (2,500 journals and 7,000 books a year indexed)
You can rerun saved searches or set up an AutoAlert
No ability to link straight to electronic full text