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Keeping up to Date

This Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Keeping up to Date. Using database alerts and RSS feeds to keep up to date in your research Networking tools to keep in touch Academic Support Librarian, LSE Library Learning Technologist, CLT. Review of last week.

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Keeping up to Date

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  1. ThisCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Keeping up to Date Using database alerts and RSS feeds to keep up to date in your research Networking tools to keep in touch Academic Support Librarian, LSE Library Learning Technologist, CLT

  2. Review of last week • How did you get on? • Has everyone got an Endnote library? • Have you imported records from databases? • Can you create records from scratch? • Do you know how to produce a bibliography? • Tips with citing (handout) • This weeks session looks at further time saving techniques

  3. Session Overview • Alerts • e-mail alerting and RSS going to a feed reader • Exercise to set up a feed reader and add news alerts • Exercise to use EBSCO to set up RSS feeds • Networking & keeping in touch • email lists, blogs & social software Feedback questionnaire in Moodle

  4. Format of alerts • Alerts via e-mail • RSS feeds being pushed into a feed reader

  5. Why are email alerts useful for on-going research • Useful if have a complicated search string • Can set up to alert other researchers • Don’t have to re-enter details each time • Don’t have to remember when a database is updated • May include direct links to articles • Don’t have to look up lots of individual pages/resources

  6. Types of alerts: from databases & journals • Saved Searches-not sent to you but saved within database • Search Alerts • Table of Contents Alerts • Citation Alerts • E-mail alerts can be sent to groups of researchers • May require you to register with the database • Email updates from organisations etc e.g. Social Care online

  7. What is RSS? • Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary • Recommend BBC Guide to find out more • Useful for fast changing information (news) but also for research • Useful for site updates • Set up a Reader and information comes to you – don’t have to trawl through lots of sites individually • Look out for the symbol (in browser)

  8. Class Activity 2 and 3 • Using Google Reader (as an example) • Adding a news feed from the BBC

  9. Class Activity 4 • Setting a feed from the CLT blog or LSE Library on Twitter • http://clt.lse.ac.uk/ • http://twitter.com/LSELibrary • Look for the RSS symbol

  10. Class Activity 5 - RSS feeds from EBSCO • Set up RSS feed of literature search from EBSCO databases • Every time a new article is added which matches your search term, you will be sent an update to your Google reader • Access database via the Library Catalogue or Subject pages

  11. E-Journals troubleshooting • Seeing an error when adding a feed from a journal? • LSE logon details need to be removed • Remove gate2.library.lse.ac.uk from your feed URL

  12. Further tools to network & keep up to date • Email lists e.g. JISCMail • Google Groups & Yahoo GroupsGoogle Alerts (covered in class 2) • LSE PhDnet via Moodle

  13. Blogs, Twitter Use their RSS feeds Useful for following conferences Use # to search Twitter for topics Can search & read without joining Networking Linked In Pronetos Academia.edu Vitae: Researchers portal LSE PhDNet Social Software CLT run Digital Literacy classes on using these tools: also on Moodle

  14. Research in Progress • Useful links from LSE http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/ • ESRC Society Today for current ESRC research awards • http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx • Social Science Research Network – may need to register. Material can be available via other LSE routes http://www.ssrn.com/

  15. Apply alerts/RSS to what we’ve learned in MI512 Set alerts or RSS feeds for databases and resources used including: • IBSS / ISI / SCOPUS • Google (alerts) • Organisational websites • News, conferences & research papers Scan your alerts for useful items and then store and cite them correctly

  16. MI512 Overview • How to find useful materials from the Library’s databases and from the internet • How to assess, store and cite these • How to build this in as part of your ongoing research

  17. What Next/Further Help • Students, Researchers & Data Companions in Moodle & access to MI512 will continue for the current academic year • Subject Guides • Your Academic Support Librarian • Please complete the Moodle feedback questionnaire Good Luck!

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