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Monitoring publications and keeping up to date in Genetics

Monitoring publications and keeping up to date in Genetics . Lab Meeting – 7/3/13 Updated with comments from the session. Why do you need to monitor publications and keep up to date? Literature review for thesis Writing a paper Conference presentation Current awareness Hot topics

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Monitoring publications and keeping up to date in Genetics

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  1. Monitoring publications and keeping up to date in Genetics Lab Meeting – 7/3/13 Updated with comments from the session

  2. Why do you need to monitor publications and keep up to date? • Literature review for thesis • Writing a paper • Conference presentation • Current awareness • Hot topics • Collaboration • Grant opportunities • New advances in methodology • Career progression • Funding body / UoM progress / management reports

  3. Databasese.g OVID Medline, Embase, Web of Science, • Save search strategies as either email or RSS alerts • PubMed, HubMed*, PubGet* • Usually need to register to save searches and set up alerts e.g. OVID My Account, PubMed – My NCBI • *e.g.s of derivatives of PubMed which have an improved search interface and retrieval • Journals • Individual titles e.g. Nature, Am J Human Genetics • Table of Contents services e.g. ZETOC, JournalTOCs, • Can search for specific journals or words / phrases

  4. RSS feeds in browser e.g. Internet Explorer

  5. Feed Aggregator e.g. Google Reader Update: Google Reader is being withdrawn from service 1/7/13; Other suggestions are: Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) ; Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/en) For tablets: Zite () (http://www.zite.com/ ) ; Pulse (https://www.pulse.me/ ) (I haven’t used any of these so please let me know if you have, or any other tools that you’ve found useful)

  6. Blogs, Twitter, Google Alerts e.g.s Blogs http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.co.uk/ - Getting Genetics done http://sciencesblog.org/biology/genetic-link-for-rheumatoid-arthritis/ http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/tag/genetic-therapy/ http://www.broadinstitute.org/blog/new-wind-sails-rheumatoid-arthritis-research Twitter https://twitter.com/guardianscience - News, comment, all that stuff from the Guardian's science, health and environment team https://twitter.com/DNABloggers - A place for Genetics and DNA Bloggers https://twitter.com/CalRheum https://twitter.com/NatureNews https://twitter.com/NEJM https://twitter.com/JAMA_current Google Alerts Useful for very broad searches

  7. Impact • Journal Impact Factors – Journal Citation Reports (ISI Web of Knowledge) • Article level metrics – e.g. citation counts • Author level metric – e.g. H-Index A 27 B 30 C 91 D 13 E 9 F9

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  10. Referencing Software • Reference Manager • EndNote • EndNote Web • Mendeley – groups, collaborations, private and public groups • Zotero

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