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Keeping up to Date
Using database alerts and RSS feeds to keep
up to date in your research
Networking tools to keep in touch
Academic Support Librarian, LSE Library
Learning Technologist, CLT
Review of last week
• How did you get on?
• Has everyone got an Endnote library?
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Have you imported records from databases?
Can you create records from scratch?
Do you know how to produce a bibliography?
Tips with citing (handout)
• This weeks session looks at further time
saving techniques
Session Overview
1. Alerts
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e-mail alerting and RSS going to a feed
reader
Exercise to set up a feed reader and
add news alerts
Exercise to use EBSCO to set up RSS
feeds
2. Networking & keeping in touch
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email lists, blogs & social software
Feedback questionnaire in Moodle
Format of alerts
• Alerts via e-mail
• RSS feeds being pushed into a feed
reader
Why are email alerts useful for ongoing research
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Useful if have a complicated search string
Can set up to alert other researchers
Don’t have to re-enter details each time
Don’t have to remember when a database is
updated
• May include direct links to articles
• Don’t have to look up lots of individual
pages/resources
Types of alerts: from databases
& journals
• Saved Searches-not sent to you but saved within
database
• Search Alerts
• Table of Contents Alerts
• Citation Alerts
• E-mail alerts can be sent to groups of
researchers
• May require you to register with the database
• Email updates from organisations etc
e.g. Social Care online
What is RSS?
• Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site
Summary
• Recommend BBC Guide to find out more
• Useful for fast changing information (news)
but also for research
• Useful for site updates
• Set up a Reader and information comes to
you – don’t have to trawl through lots of sites
individually
• Look out for the symbol (in browser)
Class Activity 2 and 3
1. Using Google Reader (as an
example)
2. Adding a news feed from the BBC
Class Activity 4
• Setting a feed from
the CLT blog or LSE
Library on Twitter
• http://clt.lse.ac.uk/
• http://twitter.com/LSE
Library
• Look for the RSS
symbol
Class Activity 5 - RSS feeds
from EBSCO
• Set up RSS feed of literature search
from EBSCO databases
• Every time a new article is added which
matches your search term, you will be
sent an update to your Google reader
• Access database via the Library
Catalogue or Subject pages
E-Journals troubleshooting
• Seeing an error when adding a feed
from a journal?
• LSE logon details need to be removed
• Remove gate2.library.lse.ac.uk from
your feed URL
Further tools to network & keep up to
date
• Email lists e.g. JISCMail
• Google Groups & Yahoo Groups
Google Alerts (covered in class 2)
• LSE PhDnet via Moodle
Social Software
• Blogs, Twitter
• Use their RSS
feeds
• Useful for following
conferences
• Use # to search
Twitter for topics
• Can search & read
without joining
• Networking
• Linked In
• Pronetos
• Academia.edu
• Vitae:
Researchers
portal
• LSE PhDNet
CLT run Digital Literacy classes on
using these tools: also on Moodle
Research in Progress
• Useful links from LSE
http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/
• ESRC Society Today for current ESRC
research awards
• http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInf
oCentre/index.aspx
• Social Science Research Network – may
need to register. Material can be available
via other LSE routes
http://www.ssrn.com/
Apply alerts/RSS to what we’ve
learned in MI512
Set alerts or RSS feeds for databases
and resources used including:
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IBSS / ISI / SCOPUS
Google (alerts)
Organisational websites
News, conferences & research papers
Scan your alerts for useful items and then
store and cite them correctly
MI512 Overview
• How to find useful materials from the
Library’s databases and from the
internet
• How to assess, store and cite these
• How to build this in as part of your
ongoing research
What Next/Further Help
• Students, Researchers & Data
Companions in Moodle & access to MI512
will continue for the current academic year
• Subject Guides
• Your Academic Support Librarian
• Please complete the Moodle feedback
questionnaire
Good Luck!