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WISER. Keeping up-to-date with the literature Ljilja Ristic & Angela Carritt February 2010. Session Overview. Introduce different ways of keeping up to date with latest research Present a range of e-resources of interest Show different types of Alerts - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Keeping up-to-date with the literature
Ljilja Ristic & Angela Carritt
February 2010
WISER
Introduce different ways of keeping up to
date with latest researchPresent a range of e-resources of interest Show different types of Alerts Demonstrate how to set up updates and alerts
Session Overview
Oxlip+
Oxlip+ - Oxford University
Library Information Platform
http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
The search engine provides the following tools:Find databases by title or subjectFind e-journal by journal titleCrossearch multiple sourcesMy Resources space
E- resources at Oxford
Oxlip+ platform:Bibliographic databasesElectronic journalsConference Proceedings General and reference materialInformation GatewaysInternet resources (quality assessed)Standards
Alerts
Database search alerts Alerts, My Profile, Saved searches, E-mail updates, RSS feeds …
Journal contents alerts Current issue alerts, Journal alerts, journal contents page…
Accessing e-resources
Direct access from University networkFor remote access use your SSO login
Creating search alerts
Register on the database Conduct a search Save your final search strategyCreate an alert Updates will be e-mailed
Medical and life sciences database
Ovid SP platformAMEDBIOSISCAB AbstractsCINAHLEconLitEmbase GeoRefGlobal HealthHMICMedlineThe Philosophers IndexPsycInfoZoological Record
Science and Technology
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - CSA Illumina
CSA – Cambridge ScientificAbstracts databases:ASFABiological SciencesBiotechnology and Bioengineering Computer TechnologyMaterials Research with
METADEXTechnology Research
Database
Science and Technology
Engineering Village
Compendex EI –
Engineering IndexINSPEC – Information
System for Physics,
Engineering and Computing
Science and TechnologySciFinder on the Web
CSA databases:
Chemical Abstracts Chemical Reactions databaseChemical Substances Medline
Social SciencesCSA - CambridgeScientific Abstracts:ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences
Index and AbstractsERIC (Education)PAIS International (public
affairs/policy, international relations)
Social Services AbstractsSociology AbstractsWorldwide Political Science
Abstracts
Social SciencesEBSCO Host:International Bibliography of
the Social SciencesBusiness Source CompleteFamily & Society Studies
Worldwide
Social SciencesOvidEconLitPsycINFOIndex to Foreign Legal
Periodicals
Social SciencesProquest• ABI/INFORM – Business,
Finance and Economics• EthnicNewsWatch
Social Sciences: other databases providing alerting servicesEducation
• Australian Education index
• British Education Index
Law
• Index to Legal Periodicals
• Lexis
Arts & HumanitiesEBSCO HostAmerica History and LifeATLA Religion database and
ATLASerialsHistorical AbstractsNew Testament Abstracts Old Testament Abstracts Philosophers indexRILM Abstracts of Music
Arts & HumanitiesFirst SearchMLA Intl Bibliography (Modern Languages Association)Bibliography of the History of Art FRANCIS (international, multilingual, multidisciplinary humanities and social sciences)
Arts & HumanitiesCSA: Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts
• British Humanities Index
• CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Arts & Humanities: other databases offering alerting servicesEnglish
• ABES: Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
Philosophy
• International Philosophical Bibliography(allows you to save searches)
Theology
• RAMBI - Index of ARticles on Jewish Studies
Multidisciplinary databases
Web of Knowledge Web of Science/Science
Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Multidisciplinary databasesSCOPUS searches:
Geobase
Compendex
Embase
Medline
Journal Content Alerts
ZETOC - Electronic Table of Contents
Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.
Database search alerts vs journal content alerts
Database search alerts
update on a topic based on saved search bibliographic references
and abstracts
Journal content alerts
latest issue of a journal include pre-selected
journal titlestable of contents only
RSS feedsReally Simple Syndication-RSS feeds can keep you up datewith your favourite website, blogs, news events, journal issuereleases etc. and can be used as an alternative to email fordatabase alerts.
For more information- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss
RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSSreader", "feed reader", or "aggregator“ such asGoogle Reader, Bloglines, MyYahoo, Newsgator, etc.
MyYahoo example
Contacts
Ljilja Ristic
Physical Sciences Librarian Subject Consultant
Radcliffe Science Library
Angela Carritt
OULS user Education Coordinator