1. Keeping up to date with new research Nicola Conway Liaison Librarian

2. Stay up to date and organised How? Part 1 – email vs RSS What? – Books – Journal Table of Contents (ToCs) – Journal articles – News, funding, blogs, web pages How? Part 2 – Filtering your feeds

3. How? Automated alerts either: Email RSS (Really Simple Syndication) – Feeds – Feed readers Browser Online Desktop

4. Feed readers

5. 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

6. What? Books Journal Articles Journal ToCs News, funding, blogs, web pages Keeping up to date for researchers web page

8. What? Books Journal ToCs Journal Articles News, funding, blogs, web pages Keeping up to date for researchers web page

9. RSS filters See only relevant information from your feed Define keywords Filter services – Feed sifter Feed sifter – Pipes Pipes

10. Hands-on Set up a filter using either FeedSifter or Pipes (instructions at the back of your handout) Subscribe to your filtered feed

11. More information Nicola Conway – e-mail: nicola.conway@durham.ac.uknicola.conway@durham.ac.uk – telephone: 0191 334 2975 Liaison Librarian – www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ Web page – www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/ www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/