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Technologies for keeping up to date: a personal viewpoint ARLG – ISG

Technologies for keeping up to date: a personal viewpoint ARLG – ISG Wednesday, 9 th July 2014, CILIP, London Karen Blakeman karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk , www.rba.co.uk Slides available at http://www.rba.co.uk/as/ Also on authorSTREAM and Slideshare.

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Technologies for keeping up to date: a personal viewpoint ARLG – ISG

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  1. Technologies for keeping up to date: a personal viewpoint ARLG – ISG Wednesday, 9th July 2014, CILIP, London Karen Blakeman karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk, www.rba.co.uk Slides available at http://www.rba.co.uk/as/ Also on authorSTREAM and Slideshare www.rba.co.uk This presentation is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

  2. What follows are some of the tools and services that I use for alerts and keeping up to date www.rba.co.uk

  3. Journals and professional society magazines www.rba.co.uk

  4. RSS (RSS Owl desktop client http://www.rssowl.org/) www.rba.co.uk

  5. RSS Owl - feeds organised into folders www.rba.co.uk

  6. inoreader.com – web based RSS reader www.rba.co.uk

  7. Tweetdeck for Twitter (also use HootSuite – I have multiple Twitter accounts) www.rba.co.uk

  8. Twitter search alerts www.rba.co.uk

  9. Use advanced Twitter search commands See also the free guide on Searching Twitter at http://www.rba.co.uk/search/TwitterSearch.shtml www.rba.co.uk

  10. Paper.lihttp://paper.li/karenblakeman www.rba.co.uk

  11. Paper.li – email alert www.rba.co.uk

  12. Paper.lihttps://paper.li/karenblakeman/1321447614 www.rba.co.uk

  13. Facebook (Permaculture Reading Group) www.rba.co.uk

  14. Facebook (MicrobiologyBytes page) www.rba.co.uk

  15. Facebook – for local events www.rba.co.uk

  16. JournalTOCs • http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ • Librarians! How to empower your researchers to find, and be alerted to, the latest articles – YouTube • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKVQvL3NuQI www.rba.co.uk

  17. Google’s free alerting services • Google email and RSS alerts are seriously broken • do not alert you to everything that is new • alerts sometimes ‘die’ • often bring up old material that you’ve already seen • duplicate information • but sometimes highlight a story not picked up elsewhere • Sometimes more reliable to bookmark searches, run them manually and apply date search option • Customise Google News and add topics to news.google.co.uk www.rba.co.uk

  18. Google alerts • http://www.google.com/alerts • Option for Scholar alerts not included – have to be set up from within Scholar www.rba.co.uk

  19. Managing Google alerts www.rba.co.uk

  20. Share, flag and edit your Google alert www.rba.co.uk

  21. Google Scholar alerts www.rba.co.uk

  22. Google Scholar alerts Google alerts can go bizarrely wrong www.rba.co.uk

  23. Add a “topic” to news.google.co.uk (must be signed in) www.rba.co.uk

  24. Talkwalker http://www.talkwalker.com/ www.rba.co.uk

  25. Page monitoring services • Personal favourite is Website-Watcher http://www.aignes.com/ • List of tools at http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/monitor.htm www.rba.co.uk

  26. Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/ Curated news www.rba.co.uk

  27. Scoop.it www.rba.co.uk

  28. Scoop.it – suggestions and sources www.rba.co.uk

  29. Storify – for catching up on conferences & meetings http://storify.com/Emily_Heath/netikx65-when-space-matters-for-collaboration-inn www.rba.co.uk

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