Specialised resources:standards, conference, theses…

Keeping up to date & social media

Moira BentFaculty Liaison Librarian

Programme

Specialist resources Standards Conferences Theses Business information Digimap

Keeping up to date Email alerts RSS feeds

Blogs, wikis, microblogging

Finding Engineering Standards

Essential for design projects

British Standar

ds

IEEE Standards

ASTM Standards

Other standards

available via ILL

Finding Conference papers

In LibrarySearch – but not comprehensive

In databases such as Compendex and Web of Knowledge

Lots of full text in IEEEXplore

Conference Papers Index in Proquest

We do not have all conference papers – you may need to use ILL

Theses

Newcastle University PhD Theses

• Library Search – limit to Theses

UK Theses• ETHOS - http://ethos.bl.uk/• Some available online (free), many require payment• Index to Theses http://www.theses.com/ (abs – not full-text)

International Theses

• Various databases available to help you find out about other research degrees

• Usually difficult to obtain• http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/resin/finding_information/theses/internatio

nal.php

Business information

Company Information Business Source Premier – articles plus

company reports FAME – UK company data and reports Amadeus – European company reports

Market Research Mintel Euromonitor GMID

Marine Digimap

Charted Raster Scanned and geocoded images of the Admiralty Chart series, ideal for general

reference and backdrop mapping but are NOT for navigational use. Variety of scales

Hydrospatial Bathymetry and Elevation - The nature and shape of the Earth's surface on

land (elevation) and under the sea (bathymetry). Natural and Physical Features - The natural topography of the coastal and

marine environment including the biological, physical and chemical features within it.

Structures and Obstructions - Man-made physical structures and obstructions.

Socio Economic and Marine Use - Specified areas where one or more activities have been designated, are known to occur or are restricted.

Conservation and Environmental Protection - Designated boundaries for the purposes of conservation and environmental protection of natural and cultural heritage.

Climate and Oceanography - Climate and weather information, tides and currents or locations where measurement and monitoring is or has been know to occur.

Keeping up with the crowd

Keeping up to date with what’s new

The web is full of information – news sites, publications, blogs,

How do you know what’s new? Databases, EJs and websites are updated every day YOU have to go back and check Overwhelming, time-consuming, inefficient, relies on you

remembering

Instead... Save your search strategy as an email alert (available in

many e-resources) Use RSS feeds to make new information come to you

instead

What do you do now? How do you keep up to date in your academic work?

1. Looking at a journal regularly2. Scanning a website regularly3. Email alerts from my favourite journals4. Email alerts on topics I’m interested in5. RSS feeds6. Reading a blog7. Twitter8. Facebook9. Something else

Email alerts

Save your search strategy as an email alert

Get alerts for your favourite journals too Receive an email every time a new article

is added to the resource which matches your search

Receive an email every time a new issue of the journal is published

You can usually determine the frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, etc...)

Email alerts

Individual databases – for topics• Compendex, Scopus, Science Direct

Zetoc – for journal TOCs• http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/• British Library's TOC for journal articles &

conference proceedings. • search 1993 =• 28,000 journals & 45m articles &

conference proceedings• email alerts by subject / journal TOC• set up RSS feeds for journals

Keeping up to date: RSS feeds

For web based content – web pages, EJs

Information sent to a “reader” – your personal web page

Relies on you checking your reader regularly – you may need to change your work practices

Easy links to original information

Getting started

Reader

• Find an RSS reader/viewer e.g. Google Reader, Netvibes

Feed

• Find a site with an RSS feed

Link

• Click on and paste the link into your chosen RSS reader

Read

• Go back to your RSS viewer at regular intervals for your ‘news’ – it’ll be there waiting for you

Now you’ve definitely found it all – relax!But….

Blogs as an academic source

Published for many reasons

(e.g. academic / research / entertainment / personal, etc)

Anyone can now easily publish on the web

Therefore, important to evaluate the information found

Blogs at Newcastle http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/ EndNote Blog http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/Endnote_Users Moira Bent’s Information Literacy Blog

http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/moira.bent The Monitor http://dieselduck.blogspot.com/

Finding Blogs

Google BlogSearch http://blogsearch.google.com/

ResearchBlogging http://www.researchblogging.org/

Technorati http://technorati.com/

Many Blogs have RSS feeds so you can subscribe using your RSS reader

Micro-blogging (Twitter)

Currently a popular method of relaying small amounts of information

Increase in number of Library / Information twitter feeds

http://twitter.com/nulibsage

Regular news items from the Library, new resources, update on services, news and current awareness items from beyond Newcastle

If you don’t use Twitter, you can still follow the news via the RSS feed

Keeping up to date with the Library

Library Web Pages News

Library Events

http://twitter.com/nulibsage

http://www.netvibes.com/nulibsage

Sail off into the sun!

Next session s

Practicals – Resources & Social mediaMon 15/10 10.00-11.30 or 5.00-6.30 ArmB 1.64

Lecture: EndNote & referencingFri 19/10 10.00-11.00

Practical -Endnote:Mon 22/10 10.00-11.30 ArmB 1.64

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