YouTube Presentation: http://bit.ly/GradTrackKeepUpLiterature2018 Dr. Holly Miller, Dean of Libraries, Florida Institute of Technology Evans Library GradTrack Workshop

1. KEEPING UP WITH
SCIENTIFIC
LITERATURE
Evans Library

2. Staying up to date with the
literature is perhaps the single
most important skill that remains
crucial throughout a researcher’s
career.
Denis Bauer, team leader in transformational bioinformatics at the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in
Sydney, Australia

4. Source: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=789

5. Where do you get info related to your research?
 Articles
 Conferences
 Seminars
 Theses/Dissertation
 News – Policies – Commercial use

6. Part of comic by Randall Munroe in the article "The Rise of Open Access" Science 342,:6154, pp. 58-59 DOI:

7. How
To Keep up?

8. General Strategies for Articles
 Keyword & Author alerts – saved search alerts
 Scopus, Google Scholar etc
 Citation alerts
 Scopus, Google Scholar etc
 Table of Contents (TOCs) from favorite journals

9. Keyword/Author alerts
 Identify optimal search terms
 Register for account at database
 Sign up for search alert

10. Citation alerts
 Create alerts for citation of key papers in your field
 Create alerts for citation of your paper!

11. TOCs
 Key journals in your field
 High impact interdisciplinary journals – Nature; Science

13. Let’s try this!

14. Other ways to receive alerts
 RSS feed
 Twitter – TOC, news

15. The 10 Best RSS Reader Apps
 Feedly (Web, iOS, Android) for providing every feature you might ever need
 NewsBlur (Web, Self-Hosted Web, iOS, Android) for filtering out content you're less interested in
 Inoreader (Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone) for free searching and saving your content long-term
 The Old Reader (Web) for sharing content with friends and getting recommendations
 Bloglovin' (Web, iOS, Android) for discovering popular lifestyle content
 Netvibes (Web) for marketers who want to monitor their brands and industry
 FlowReader (Web) for combining your RSS and social feeds
 Feedreader (Web) for no-frills feed reading
 Feeder (Web, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Yandex, iOS, Android) for viewing your RSS feeds on any device
 Selfoss (Self-Hosted Web, Third-Party iOS and Android) for customizing your RSS reader
 How to Build Your Own RSS Reader
Source: zapier - https://zapier.com/blog/best-rss-feed-reader-apps/

16. Other ways to receive alerts
 Twitter – TOC, news
https://twitter.com/nature

17. General Strategies for Conferences
 Sign up for alerts at society websites
 https://cacm.acm.org/alerts-and-feeds
 Follow conferences and professional societies on social
media
 https://twitter.com/theofficialacm

18. Social Media
 Twitter - https://twitter.com/noaaocean
 Facebook
 Podcasts – Nature, Science, Grinding Gears
 YouTube
 Blogs

19. Academic Networks
 List servs – Mailing lists for scientific societies
 Research Gate
 Academia.edu
 LinkedIN
 Funding opportunities alerts (NSF, NIH)
 Blogs (tools – Scoop.it, rss reader)
 Industry News

20. Reference Manager
 RefWorks
 Mendeley
 Endnote
 Other?

21. Make a ‘favorite journal’ list
 Journals that you see often during your topic searches
 Journals specific to your specialization
 Journals you would like to publish in

22. Make a ‘conference’ list
 Browse and search conference proceedings
 Conferences you would like to attend

23. More Strategies
 Keep a list of key words and search strategies that have
worked for you
 Make time for reading
 Start an Interdisciplinary journal club

24. Resources
 Scientific literature: Information overload - Landhuis, E.
Nature 535, 457–458 (2016)
 How to tame the flood of literature – Gibney, E. Nature 513,
129–130 (2014)
 How to keep up with the scientific literature – Pain, E.
Science
 Ten Simple Rules for Searching and Organizing the Scientific
Literature – Bauer, D. Nature Precedings
doi:10.1038/npre.2009.3867.1

25. Digital tools for researchers (http://connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-researchers/ )
Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)
Sends alerts about recommended papers on the basis of a user’s publication history.
ReadCube (readcube.com)
Mendeley (mendeley.com)
Reference managers with recommendation engines (ReadCube is backed by Digital Science, a sister firm to
Nature Publishing Group).
PubChase (pubchase.com)
Recommends papers based on the libraries of users with similar interests.
Sparrho (sparrho.com)
Asks the user to train its recommendations engine by approving or rejecting suggestions.
Faculty of 1000 Prime (f1000.com/prime)
Sends alerts about biomedical articles, using the ratings of 5,000 senior scientists.
Twitter (twitter.com)
Automated twitterbots can track keywords (see go.nature.com/bppzew for instructions), or users can follow
colleagues, as they can on other social networks such as ResearchGate.
Nowomics (nowomics.com)
Users ‘follow’ biological keywords such as specific genes, proteins or processes.
Scizzle (myscizzle.com)
Automates the process of making multiple PubMed searches with keywords and filters, and allows users to
bookmark relevant papers.
More resources