Keeping up-to-date with the literature

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WISER Science

• Keeping up-to-date with the literature
• Ljilja Ristic Linda Atkinson
• November 2008

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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
• Demonstrate how to set up updates and alerts

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Oxlip

• Oxlip - Oxford University e-resources
• http//oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
• The search engine provides the following tools
• Find resource by title or subject
• Crossearch multiple sources
• My Resources space

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E- resources at Oxford

• Oxlip platform
• Bibliographic databases
• Electronic journals
• Conference Proceedings
• General and reference material
• Information Gateways
• Internet resources (quality assessed)
• Standards

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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

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Accessing e-resources

• Direct access from University network
• For remote access use your SSO login

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Creating search alerts

• Register on the database
• Conduct a search
• Save your final search strategy
• Create an alert
• Updates will be e-mailed

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Medical and life sciences database

• Ovid SP platform
• AMED
• BIOSIS
• CAB Abstracts
• CINAHL
• EconLit
• Embase
• GeoRef
• Global Health
• HMIC
• Medline
• The Philosophers Index
• PsycInfo
• Zoological Record

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Science and Technology

• Cambridge Scientific
• Abstracts - CSA Illumina

• CSA Cambridge Scientific
• Abstracts databases
• ASFA
• Biological Sciences
• Biotechnology and
• Bioengineering
• Computer Technology
• Materials Research with METADEX
• Technology Research Database

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Science and Technology

• Engineering Village
• Compendex EI
• Engineering Index
• INSPEC Information System for Physics,
• Engineering and Computing

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Science and Technology

• SciFinder on the Web
• CSA databases
• Chemical Abstracts
• Chemical Reactions database
• Chemical Substances
• Medline

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Multidisciplinary databases

• Web of Science
• with Conference Proceedings
• Science Citation Index
• Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index

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Multidisciplinary databases

• SCOPUS searches
• Geobase
• Compendex
• Embase
• Medline

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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.

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Database search alerts vs journal content alerts

• Database search alerts
• update on a topic
• based on saved search
• articles from wide range of
• journals covered
• bibliographic references
• and abstracts

• Journal content alerts
• individually selected
• journal titles
• table of content
• from a journal issue

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RSS feeds

• Really Simple Syndication-RSS feeds can keep you
  up date
• with your favourite website, blogs, news events,
  journal issue
• releases etc. and can be used as an alternative
  to email for
• database alerts.
• For more information- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki
  /Rss
• RSS feeds can be read using software called an
  "RSS
• reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator such as
• Google Reader.

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Contacts

• Ljilja Ristic
• Physical Sciences Librarian Subject Consultant
• Radcliffe Science Library
• Tel.[phone] Ljilja.Ristic_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk
• Linda Atkinson
• Reader Services Librarian
• Healthcare Library John Radcliffe Hospital
• Tel.[phone] Linda.Atkinson_at_hcl.ox.ac.uk
• RSL enquiries.rsl_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk Tel. 272800
• HCL enquiries_at_hcl.ox.ac.uk Tel. 221936

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