1. Keeping up to date with new research Laura Jeffrey Researcher Training 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

15. 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

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

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

19. Hands-on Go to www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/ www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/ Set up alerts using for new books journal articles and tables of contents Try some which offer email alerts and others which offer RSS feeds Is there a researcher blogging in your field?

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

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

22. More information Laura Jeffrey – e-mail: l.k.s.jeffrey@durham.ac.uk – telephone: 0191 334 1586 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/

23. Evaluation Please let me know what you thought of today’s session www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/keep261010