staying up to date with academic information in your area
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Covers setting up RSS feeds, Citation alerts and Zetoc alerts service.TRANSCRIPT
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Cutting Edge?Staying up to date in your area
RSS feeds
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In the databases we’ve looked at you can set up an account and then set up alerts or RSS feeds for searches you’ve done
PsycInfo
Staying up to date – citation alerts
• In Web of Science databases (SSCI and SCI) • For articles particularly significant to your work/dissertation get an alert every time it is cited in new research
Zetoc alerts service – get info as it’s published
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• Access as you would any of the other databases (MyUnihub)• Updated weekly - journals are indexed here by BL quicker than other databases
5 • Create an alert and name it
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• Now add searches or journals to the alert
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• You can build a list of searches – by keywords or author • You can also add searches by journals and be emailed every time a journal is released
Excercise - Zetoc
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Set up some alerts and add searches relevant to your log books for this module
Remember you can AND SHOULD add multiple searches for each of the synonyms for your search term to your alert
Make sure you have done some searched and know common terms for your interest area
Grab me if you need a hand or help picking search terms.