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Drinking from a Fire Hose: Keeping up with the Professional Literature

Drinking from a Fire Hose: Keeping up with the Professional Literature. Angela Murrell Kresge Library, TSRI amurrell@scripps.edu 858-784-8705. Keeping up or drowning. How do you stay current with the professional literature?. This presentation. Will discuss some alerting features

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Drinking from a Fire Hose: Keeping up with the Professional Literature

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  1. Drinking from a Fire Hose:Keeping up with the Professional Literature Angela Murrell Kresge Library, TSRI amurrell@scripps.edu 858-784-8705

  2. Keeping up or drowning • How do you stay current with the professional literature?

  3. This presentation • Will discuss some alerting features • Will not discuss search techniques • Different for each database • ‘tricky’ or complex • For searching assistance: • Can arrange 1-on-1 training • Attend workshops coming soon. Look for announcements.

  4. Alerts • Library Current Awareness page http://www.scripps.edu/library/currentawareness.html • Author/Subject alerts • Ovid (Medline, PsycINFO, etc) • PubMed (with TSRI holdings) • ISI Web of Science (Science Citation Index) • Faculty of 1000 • Table of Contents alerts • TDNet (table of contents alerts) • Individual publishers

  5. PubMed (MyNCBI) • Register for free • Must Verify email • Save Searches • Set up as Alerts • Daily, Weekly, Monthly • Citations, Abstracts, links • Edit Email address – can take it with you! • To get TSRI holdings • Use PubMed link from Library database page • Or sign in and set “outside tool” to Scripps Research Institute

  6. Register

  7. Register • Select username • Select password • Answer security Q NOTE: Library does not track or have access • Enter email • Can be done later, but must be verified before alerts will send

  8. Verify Email • Respond to email sent by NCBI

  9. TSRI holdings • To get TSRI holdings • Sign into MyNCBI • Click “MyNCBI” • Click “Outside Tool” on left

  10. Save Searches /Alerts • Run your search while signed in • Click “Save Search”

  11. Set up as Alert • The Save search window will open • You may save the search, or set up an alert • (select “yes” and additional options will appear) • Select frequency and format of alert

  12. Alert Email

  13. Take your alerts with you • Sign in to MyNCBI • Click on “MyNCBI” • Click User Preferences • Change email • Confirmation email will be sent, you must respond to verify account

  14. OVID(Medline, PsycINFO, etc) • Set up a “Personal Account” for free • Save Searches • Set up Alerts • Weekly, biweekly, monthly • Choose fields to send in email • Can have links to TSRI full-text or ILLiad through SFX

  15. Register

  16. Register • Create a username • Create a password NOTE: Library does not track or have access

  17. Save Search

  18. Set up as Alert

  19. View/Edit Alerts

  20. ISI Web of Science • Register on entry page • Save Searches • Set up as Alerts • Weekly, monthly • Citation, abstract or full record • Citation Alerts • Notified when paper is cited within Science Citation Index

  21. Register

  22. Save Search/Alert

  23. Save Search/Alert

  24. Set up as Alert

  25. View/Edit Alerts

  26. Citation Alerts

  27. Faculty of 1000 • Register for free • Same as BioMedCentral login • Entire email address • Save Searches • Set up as Alert • Weekly, biweekly, monthly • Citation as HTML or plain text

  28. Register Note areas of interest

  29. Save Search/Alert

  30. Set up as Alert

  31. Alert Email

  32. TDNet • Register to receive Table of Contents alerts in email • Links to full-text articles in journals licensed by TSRI

  33. Register • Click on “My TDNet” • Click “To create profile please click here”

  34. Register • Enter your name and email • Create user name • Create password • Mark the box next to “By Journal Title” to receive Table of Content alerts • Click “Submit”

  35. First time, click “Proceed” to select Journals Future visits will see journals in your alerts To add journals, click “Add Titles” Add Journals

  36. Add Titles • Mark box next to journal • Click here to update before going to another page

  37. Search • Search in My TDNet • Searches within YOUR selected journal titles • Search TDNet • Searches within the TDNet list • To add these titles will need to go to A-Z list

  38. TDNet Email Alert

  39. ToC from publishers • Use for titles not in TDNet • Register for free at publisher site • Select Titles to get ToC • Email example from Science Direct

  40. Locate Full-Text • Click on link in database (or some alert emails) • Look for full-text link • Or search catalog for print • ILLiad – to request articles we do not have

  41. SFX • Full text • Search for print • ILL through ILLiad

  42. Feedback/Questions Kresge Library 858-784-8705 http://www.scripps.edu/library scripps.iii.com (catalog - ELLeN) Or just stop in and see us!

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