Keeping Current with Scholarly Literature

Keeping Current with Scholarly Literature Robin Featherstone Clinical Medicine Librarian Taylor Library, University of Western Ontario [email_address] Slides available: www.slideshare.net/featherr

In 1980, reading 1 RCT per day would keep you up to date… http://trusttheevidence.net/carl-heneghan/how-many-randomized-trials-are-published-each-year ... In 2008, you would have to read 71 per day

Prediction: 500,000 RCTs per year published by 2018-9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp3m1vg06Q

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Which databases offer alerts? Biological Sciences Engineering Health Sciences Medicine Physical & Mathematical Sciences ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Demo - Scopus ,[object Object],[object Object]

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RSS = Really Simple Syndication http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/02/keeping_up.html http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

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Demo - PubMed ,[object Object]

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QUESTIONS Robin Featherstone [email_address] http://www.slideshare.net/featherr

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