Efficient Ways to Stay Updated: Alerts & Journal TOCs
Learn how to set up search alerts for evidence/literature searches, subscribe to journal table of contents alerts, and utilize internet alert feeds to receive new published material relevant to your research or expertise. Explore various resources such as Cochrane Library, NHS Evidence, Dynamed, Google Scholar, and more to enhance your knowledge acquisition capabilities.
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Current Awareness Setting up Search Alerts Subscribing to Journal Table of Contents Website Alerts (RSS Feeds)
Aim of session Provide you with information on how to create alerts for your evidence/literature search Advise on setting up journal table of contents Offer an introductory session to internet alert feeds Ultimately... To ensure you receive new, published material relevant to your research or field of expertise
1. Search Alerts You can set up alerts to previous information/ literature searches These are relevant to resources held at WAHT and nationally across the NHS and general internet Cochrane Library NHS Evidence TRIP HDAS Databases Dynamed Google Scholar
Search Alerts HDAS NHS Evidence Dynamed Cochrane Library Google Scholar TRIP CKS no specific alert service available these would be included in the wider NHS Evidence pages. UptoDate no current means to create an alert within an institution subscription only possible when subscribe as an individual. What s New can be browsed to area of interest.
2. Journal Table of Contents Journal TOCs are alerts to inform you when a new issue of a journal is available either paper or electronic 3 ways demonstrated Single sign on collection Direct to publishers Specific journal websites
Single Sign on JournalTOCs Heriot-Watt University Free collection of 24,827 scholarly journals
Once you have made your selection, click on Home, or Followed Journals under your registration name. Ensure Email Alerts is an.other@worcsacute.nhs.uk
Direct to Publishers Set up direct TOCs with publishers Individual registration will be required Science Direct Wiley Oxford University Press Sage Taylor and Francis
Specific Websites Established leaders in their field Registration again The Lancet BMJ NEW England Journal of Medicine NHS Evidence Bulletins Harvard Business Review
3. Website Alerts (RSS Feeds) Internet is vast Therefore keeping up to date with new information is extremely difficult RSS feeds are easy means to keep up to date
RSS Feeds Sometimes called RSS Aggregators Desk top or Web Based Look for or on the website you are visiting RSS
Desk Top Based - To set up a feed Explorer Firefox Bookmarks icon RSS icon on tool bar
Desk Top Based - To view a feed Explorer Firefox
Web Based - Example The Lancet The Lancet The BMJ
Summary Search alerts Journal TOCs RSS feeds
