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Drinking from a Fire Hose:
Keeping up with the Professional Literature
Angela Murrell
Kresge Library, TSRI
[email protected]
858-784-8705
Keeping up or drowning
How do you stay current with the
professional literature?
This presentation
Will discuss some alerting features
Will not discuss search techniques
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Different for each database
‘tricky’ or complex
For searching assistance:
 Can arrange 1-on-1 training
 Attend workshops coming soon. Look for
announcements.
Alerts
Library Current Awareness page
http://www.scripps.edu/library/currentawareness.html
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Author/Subject alerts
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Ovid (Medline, PsycINFO, etc)
PubMed (with TSRI holdings)
ISI Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
Faculty of 1000
Table of Contents alerts
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TDNet (table of contents alerts)
Individual publishers
PubMed (MyNCBI)
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Register for free
Must Verify email
Save Searches
Set up as Alerts
 Daily, Weekly, Monthly
 Citations, Abstracts, links
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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
Register
Register
Select username
Select password
Answer security Q
NOTE: Library does not track
or have access
Enter email
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Can be done later,
but must be verified
before alerts will
send
Verify Email
Respond to email sent by NCBI
TSRI holdings
To get TSRI holdings
 Sign into MyNCBI
 Click “MyNCBI”
 Click “Outside Tool”
on left
Save Searches /Alerts
Run your search while signed in
Click “Save Search”
Set up as Alert
The Save search
window will open
You may save the
search, or set up an
alert
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(select “yes” and
additional options will
appear)
Select frequency and
format of alert
Alert Email
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
OVID(Medline, PsycINFO, etc)
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Set up a “Personal Account” for free
Save Searches
Set up Alerts
 Weekly, biweekly, monthly
 Choose fields to send in email
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Can have links to TSRI full-text or ILLiad
through SFX
Register
Register
Create a username
Create a password
NOTE: Library does not track or have access
Save Search
Set up as Alert
View/Edit Alerts
ISI Web of Science
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Register on entry page
Save Searches
Set up as Alerts
 Weekly, monthly
 Citation, abstract or full record
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Citation Alerts
 Notified when paper is cited within Science
Citation Index
Register
Save Search/Alert
Save Search/Alert
Set up as Alert
View/Edit Alerts
Citation Alerts
Faculty of 1000
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Register for free
 Same as BioMedCentral login
 Entire email address
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Save Searches
Set up as Alert
 Weekly, biweekly, monthly
 Citation as HTML or plain text
Register
Note areas of interest
Save Search/Alert
Set up as Alert
Alert Email
TDNet
Register to receive Table of Contents
alerts in email
Links to full-text articles in journals
licensed by TSRI
Register
Click on “My
TDNet”
Click “To
create profile
please click
here”
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”
Add Journals
First time, click “Proceed” to select Journals
Future visits will
see journals in
your alerts
To add journals,
click “Add Titles”
Add Titles
Mark box next to
journal
Click here to
update before
going to another
page
Search
Search in My TDNet
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Searches within YOUR selected journal titles
Search TDNet
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Searches within the TDNet list
To add these titles will need to go to A-Z list
TDNet Email Alert
(Will insert example of email alert as
soon as I get one!)
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
Locate Full-Text
Click on
link in
database (or some alert emails)
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Look for full-text link
Or search catalog for print
ILLiad – to request articles we do not
have
SFX
Full text
Search for
print
ILL
through
ILLiad
Feedback/Questions
Kresge Library
858-784-8705
http://www.scripps.edu/library
scripps.iii.com (catalog - ELLeN)
Or just stop in and see us!