For the latest published academic research check Indexto Theses and other dissertation services.

For assistance look at the powerpoint on dissertations

• Much academic research is published in journals. The Library subscribes to print and electronic journals.

• Many of the databases subscribed to by the Library index thousands of these journals, and in addition provide an alerting service to let you know the very latest information relevant to your research.

• There are for example…

A search for animation in the ASSIA database returns 71 hits. This and others CSA databases have an alert service where the database will email you the latest addedinformation which matchesyour search

ASSIA database

Other databases which provide alertservices are:

• You can navigate to all of these databases from the Area Index, (left hand column) at the Library Home Page

British Library’s Zetoc Alert is a major alerting database

There is also Construction Information Service

Click here for document alert

There are databases which do not index journal articles,but some of them provide an emailing list service to keep the user up to date on new content. For example:

There is also Computing Reviews, a secondary reference database ofreviews in computing literature

Another way of keeping up to date with developments in your area of interestis to join academic email discussion lists.

JISC mail is an important one. To getstarted look at the Quick User Guide