Keeping up with Research Publications
Here are notes and links from the November 9th MIME Seminar.
RSS Readers
Bloglines
Google Reader
NewsGator
Rojo
Netvibes
PageFlakes
For more information on RSS
Subscribing to Table of Contents Services and Alerts (via feeds or e-mail)
For Individual Journals
These are examples; you can search for individual journals either from the publisher’s website or from the E-Journals list on the OSU Libraries home page to see if and how TOC or Search Alerts are available.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
RSS Feed for Latest Issue
IIE Transactions
Alerts for Institute of Industrial Engineers journals
Nature
Table of Contents and other alerts
RSS Feeds
Science
E-mail alerts
RSS Feeds
For E-Journal Packages
American Chemical Society’s ASAP
Sign up for Tables of Contents alerts for particular journals or ASAP alerts for newly published articles.
American Physical Society
Receive e-mailed Tables of Contents or abstracts or set up RSS feedsfor APS journals including Physical Review.
American Society of Civil Engineers
Tables of Contents alerts available by e-mail
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Tables of Contents alerts available by e-mail
BioMed Central
Alerts on articles in your area of interest.
IEEE
Set up an account to create email table of contents alerts
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Tables of Contents alerts as well as alerts on articles in your area of interest.
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Tables of Contents alerts for journals and proceedings.
Springer Journals
Tables of Contents alerts available for journals in science and technology, plus. other topics
Science Direct Alerts
Select “Alerts” and register for tables of contents alerts and well as alerts on articles in journals in sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Setting up Search Alerts in Databases
Compendex [ EI Village ]
How to create Search Alerts
Run your search and refine it until it is retrieving what you want. Click on “Create Alert.” You will be prompted to log-in to your personal account; if you don’t have one yet, you can register for a free account. These are e-mail alerts. If you want to subscribe to an RSS alert, you can click on the RSS button and subscribe.
Inspec [EbscoHost]
and Business Source Premier
How to create Search Alerts
► Perform a search
► Save your search
► Click Search History/Alerts link
► If you have not already signed in to your personal account you will be prompted to do so.
How to create Table of Contents Alerts
Use the E-journals list linked from OSU Libraries home page or use the Publications tab in the Business Source Premier database to find the publication page for the journal you want, then click “Journal Alert.” You will need to sign in to an existing (free) Ebsco personal account (or create a new one via the “I’m a new user” link), then fill in the form as requested to create the contents alert.
Science Citation Index [ ISI’s Web of Science ]
How to create a Search Alert
► Define and run a Search.
► Save the search as a Search Alert.
How to create a Citation Alert
► Search for an article
► Go into the full record
► Click on Create Citation Alert on the right side of the page.
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