Covers setting up RSS feeds, Citation alerts and Zetoc alerts service.

1. Cutting Edge?
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Staying up to date in your area

2. RSS feeds
 In the databases we’ve looked at you can set up an
account and then set up alerts or RSS feeds for
searches you’ve done
PsycInfo
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3. Staying up to date – citation alerts
• In Web of Science databases (SSCI and SCI)
• For articles particularly significant to your work/dissertation
get an alert every time it is cited in new research

4. Zetoc alerts service – get info as it’s published
• Access as you would any of the other databases (MyUnihub)
4 • Updated weekly - journals are indexed here by BL quicker than other databases

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• Create an alert and name it

6. • Now add searches or journals to the alert
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7. • You can build a list of searches – by keywords or author
• You can also add searches by journals and be emailed every
7 time a journal is released

8. Excercise - Zetoc
 Set up some alerts and add searches relevant to your
log books for this module
 Remember you can AND SHOULD add multiple
searches for each of the synonyms for your search
term to your alert
 Make sure you have done some searched and know
common terms for your interest area
 Grab me if you need a hand or help picking search
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terms.