Keeping up to date with research
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Keeping up to date with research
Helen Bond and Helen Worrell
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Aims
• Understand how email alerts can help you
• How to utilise the following key platforms:
• SOLO
• Bibliographic databases
• Newspapers
• Table of Contents services
• JiscMail
• Managing alerts
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How do email alerts work?
Removes distracting and superfluous information.
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Email alerts: advantages
A lot of services offer email alerts
The email joins all your other emails
You can keep your work all in one place
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Email alerts: disadvantages
You will need to go back to the original source and remove yourself from email alerts
If you like to keep your work separate, having your emails all together may not suit you
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Catalogues
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SOLOJISC Library
Hub Discover
WorldCatLibrary of Congress
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Demonstration
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SOLO: sign in 1. Go to SOLO (https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/) and sign into SOLO by clicking the ‘sign in button’ in the top right
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SOLO: enter search • 2. Enter search query and click the magnifying button or return key on keyboard
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SOLO: save query • 3. Click the ‘Save query’ button at the top of the results page
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SOLO: favourites • 4. Click the pin icon at the top of the webpage to go to your Favourites
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SOLO: saved search • 5. In your Favourites, click ‘Saved Searches’ to see the search you just saved
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SOLO: alert • 6. Click the bell icon next to your saved search in order to turn on email alerts
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SOLO: alert on • 7. The bell icon will change colour and become filled in to show email alerts have been turned on
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Bibliographic Databases
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Scopus, Proquest, Web of Knowledge, EBSCO databases (Historical Abstracts, Philosophers
Index, ATLA etc) and more
Save searches and set up email alerts
Cross-search 1000s of scholarly journal articles
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Demonstration: bibliographic databases
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Demonstration: ProQuest
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ProQuest: select database
1. Go to
https://search.proquest.com/index.
You can select a database if wanted
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ProQuest: search
2. Type your search in the search bar
And click the search icon.
Using ‘advanced search’ will give you
more options
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ProQuest: save search
3. Click ‘Save search/alert’
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ProQuest: create alert
3. Click ‘Save search/alert’ and click ‘create alert’. If
you want to save or modify your search you will need
to create a free account
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Demonstration: Web of Science
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Web of Science: access
1. Search SOLO for ‘Web of Science’ and click
‘online access’
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Web of Science: sign in
2. You will need to sign in to Web of Science with
your personal Web of Science username and password.
If you have not got one, click Register to set one up.
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Web of Science: search
3. Enter your search. You can limit to a particular
subject database by clicking on ‘editions’
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Web of Science: create alert
4. Click ‘create alert’
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Web of Science: alert settings
5. Fill in the alert name and choose whether to
receive emails. Click ‘create alert’
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Web of Science: citation alert
6. To set up an alert for a specific article on the
results page click on the article title
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Web of Science: create citation alert
7. Click ‘create citation alert’
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Web of Science: save citation alert
7. Click ‘create’
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Web of Science: manage alerts
8. To manage your alerts click on ‘alerts’
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Have a goHave a go at one of the exercises that interests you and take a break if
needed.
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Newspapers
Use Nexis UK to save searches and set up email alerts.
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Demonstration: Nexis UK
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Nexis UK: access
1. Search SOLO for ‘nexis uk’. Click
‘online access’. Click on an online access
option depending on where you are.
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Nexis UK: home page
2. The Nexis UK homepage will show you any
previous activity.
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Nexis UK: search
3. Click ‘news’ to search news articles
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Nexis UK: limit search
4. You may want to limit by type or by
region. You can enter your search here.
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Nexis UK: results
5. Results are automatically sorted by relevance.
You can click on the article title to read more.
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Nexis UK: view article
6. You can read, download or email the article
to yourself.
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Nexis UK: create alert
7. You can create an alert by clicking the bell
icon or save the search by clicking on ‘actions’
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Nexis UK: view and modify alerts
8. You can view, modify or delete previous
alerts by clicking on ‘alerts’ in the top menu.
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Nexis UK: modifying alerts
8. Click in the box next to the search you want to modify. You
will be able to edit, restart, stop or delete the search.
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Journal alerts
Receive alerts when new new issues of your favourite journals are published.
• Publisher websites
• JournalTOCs
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Publisher website
Advantage
• Usually faster than other alert services.
Disadvantages
• Cover a small number of journals.
• More difficult to manage your alerts.
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JournalTOCs
Advantages
• Alerts available for thousands of journals.
• Manage alerts in one place.
Disadvantage
• It takes slightly longer for alerts to be sent.
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Demonstration: publisher website
Nature journal
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Nature sign upClick ‘Sign up for alerts’.
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Nature: sign up optionsIf you already have an account, sign in. Otherwise register with an email address and password.
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Nature: verify email address
• Click the link in the automated email you receive prompting you to verify your account.
• You will be taken to a web page where you need to fill in details about your subscription preferences.
• Upon completion, you will be subscribed to Nature.
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Nature: manage and add to journal email alerts
Go to your account area (https://www.nature.com/my-account/alerts) to manage and add to the journals you will receive email alerts for.
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Demonstration: JournalTOCs
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JournalTOCs website
Go to the JournalTOCs website (http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/).
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JournalTOCs: sign up
1. Sign up by clicking the ‘sign up’ button in the
middle of the webpage
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JournalTOCs: search
2. After signing up and signing in, either search for
a specific journal in the search bar or browse by
subjects or publisher.
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JournalTOCs: follow journal
3. Once you have found a journal, tick the ‘Follow’ box. This
will mean you are following the journal and it has been
logged as a journal of interest.
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JournalTOCs: settings
4. To receive email alerts for that journal, hover over your
name in the top right of the webpage and click ‘Followed
Journals’ from the dropdown.
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JournalTOCs: alerts
5. In the ‘Followed Journals’ area of your account, make
sure the box at the bottom of the screen is ticked so that it
reads ‘Email alerts is on’
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JiscMail
8,000 mailing lists
Over 13 million subscribers
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
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JiscMail: navigate home page
1. Click ‘Mailing Lists’ in the ribbon menu and click
‘Find and join a mailing list’, ‘A-Z lists’ or ‘Recently
Created’.
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JiscMail: find mailing list
2. Personally, I like to click ‘Find and join a mailing
list’, then browse mailing lists by subject.
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JiscMail: view mailing list
3. Once you have found a mailing list you would
like to join, click ‘Subscribe or Unsubscribe’.
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JiscMail: subscribe to mailing list
4. Enter your name and email address, then click
the ‘Subscribe’ button.
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Managing your inbox:Create filtersMark unread or flag
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Managing your inbox: new folder
Create a folder in Outlook desktop app
1. right click in left hand pane
2. click ‘new folder’
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Managing your inbox: filters
Create filters (called ‘rules’ in Outlook)
Right click on the email you would like to filter and
hover over ‘rules’. Click ‘create rule’.
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Managing your inbox: rules
You will be given various options to create a ‘rule’
with. Click ‘move the item to folder’ and select an
existing folder.
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What have you learnt?
How to set up email alerts:
• on library catalogues
• on databases
• for newspapers
• for journals
• on JiscMail
How to manage your email
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Further help
Contact:
Copies of handouts will be available on
the iSkills guide: https://bit.ly/3bk8eyf
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Questions
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