Keeping up-to-date with the literature

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WISER Focus on

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

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Overview of the session

• 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 electronic resources

• Oxford Libraries Information Platform
• http//www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/
• Bibliographic databases
• Electronic journals
• Information Gateways
• Internet resources (quality assessed)
• General and reference material

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ALERTS

• Database search alerts
• Alerts, SDI, My Profile, Saved searches,
• E-mail updates
• Journal contents alerts
• Current issue alerts, Journal alerts,
• journal contents page

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Accessing databases

• Direct access from University network
• For remote access - ATHENS password
• http//www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
• VPN service registration
• http//www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/

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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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Biomedical databases

• Ovid platform

• AMED
• BIOSIS
• CAB Abstracts
• CINAHL
• Embase
• Global Health
• HMIC
• Medline
• PsycInfo
• Zoological Record

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Science and Technology

• Cambridge Scientific
• Abstracts - CSA Illumina

• ASFA
• Biological Sciences
• Biotechnology and
• Bioengineering
• Computer Technology
• Environmental Sciences
• Materials Research with METADEX

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Science and Technology

• ERL WebSPIRS

• GeoRef geosciences
• INSPEC Physics,
• Engineering, Computing

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Engineering

• Engineering Village

• Compendex EI
• Engineering Index

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Multidisciplinary databases

• Web of Knowledge
• Web of Science
• SCOPUS

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Multidisciplinary databases

• Web of Knowledge

• Arts Humanities Citation Index
• Social Science Citation Index
• Science Citation Index
• Scientific and Technical Proceedings
• Journal Citation Reports

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Multidisciplinary database

• SCOPUS

• Compendex
• Geobase
• EMBASE
• Medline
• Journal articles

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Journal Content Alerts

• ZETOC British Library electronic Table of
  Contents http//zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/
• Alerts from Publisher websites
• (e.g. Science Direct)

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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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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