Keeping yourself Updated
Here are some suggestions for keeping up to date in your field:Use alerting services
Setting up personal profiles within individual databases will allow you to save your search history and to receive alerts about new articles and pre-prints.
Save your search history and re-run searches in the Digital Library.
Use Table of Contents (TOC) Services to receive alerts by email or RSS feed:
- Zetoc – The British Library table of contents service: use the Database finder search via the Library web site.
- TicTOCs journal table of contents service
Theses
Search for UK theses using the Index to Theses: use the Database finder search via the Library web site.
- UK theses held at the British Library can in many cases be obtained via the EthOS service
- DART-Europe E theses Portal is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses
Conference Proceedings
The following can be accessed using the Database Finder search
- Conference Papers Index (CSA)
- ISI Proceedings (Web of Knowledge)
- Zetoc - Conference Search
Join Academic mailing lists
- JISC Mail : the national academic mailing list service
Use blogs and other social networking tools
Institutional repositories
- Institutional repositories are an important source of research output