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Keeping up to date with new research

Keeping up to date with new research. Laura Jeffrey Researcher Training Librarian. Stay up to date and organised. How? Part 1 email vs RSS What? Books Journal Table of Contents ( ToCs ) Journal articles News, funding, blogs, web pages How? Part 2 Filtering your feeds. How?.

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Keeping up to date with new research

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  1. Keeping up to date with new research Laura Jeffrey Researcher Training Librarian

  2. Stay up to date and organised • How? Part 1 • email vs RSS • What? • Books • Journal Table of Contents (ToCs) • Journal articles • News, funding, blogs, web pages • How? Part 2 • Filtering your feeds

  3. How? Automated alerts either: • Email • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) • Feeds • Feed readers • Browser • Online • Desktop

  4. Feed readers

  5. Hands-on • Set up a RSS feed reader. Use Internet Explorer or an register for an online reader such as Google Reader • Subscribe to a generic feed e.g. • Durham University central news • Durham University Library news • BBC news

  6. What? • Books • Journal Articles • Journal ToCs • News, funding, blogs, web pages Keeping up to date for researchers web page

  7. What? • Books • Journal ToCs • Journal Articles • News, funding, blogs, web pages Keeping up to date for researchers web page

  8. RSS filters • See only relevant information from your feed • Define keywords • Filter services • Feed sifter • Pipes

  9. Hands-on • Set up a filter using either FeedSifter or Pipes (instructions at the back of your handout) • Subscribe to your filtered feed

  10. More information • Laura Jeffrey • e-mail: l.k.s.jeffrey@durham .ac.uk • telephone: 0191 334 1586 • Liaison Librarian • www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ • Web page • www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/

  11. Evaluation Please let me know what you thought of today’s session www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/keep261010

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