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

Ljilja.Ristic@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Angela Carritt

OULS user Education Coordinator

Angela.Carritt@ouls.ox.ac.uk