1. Zetoc: Electronic Table of Contents from the British Library
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2. What is Zetoc?
The British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)
Citations for articles and papers (abstracts available for journals which have an agreement between the BL and journal publisher)
Covers over 30,000 journals
Over 52 million articles journal articles and conference proceedings
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3. Coverage 1993-present Wide-ranging Updated daily
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Coverage
Wide-ranging
Science and Technology, Medicine, Law, Engineering, Business, Finance, Arts, Humanities
Journals selected are most requested research journals
1993-present
Updated daily
Some Open Access journals indexed
Including: Biomed Central & Europe Pub Med
journals
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4. Access
Free to JISC-sponsored UK further and higher education institutions and research councils
Some Institutions eligible for CHEST membership subscribe
Logging into Zetoc: You will usually have to enter the username and password provided by your institution, but the precise procedure can differ so you may wish to check with your library.
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5. Searching Search by keyword(s) Phrase searching
Search terms can be entered in one field/any number of fields
Phrase searching
Truncation by wildcard
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6. Search Examples keywords “phrase search” and a keyword “phrase search”
e.g. nitrogen emissions
“phrase search”
e.g. “nitrogen emissions”
“phrase search” and a keyword
e.g. “nitrogen emissions” reduction
“phrase search” and truncation
e.g. “nitrogen emissions” reduc*
(Searches for reduced, reducing, reduction etc.)
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7. Zetoc homepage: http://zetoc.jisc.ac.uk
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8. Zetoc ‘General Search’ Example
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9. Zetoc Brief Record 30/11/2018 zetoc_biblio_july2017
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10. Zetoc Full Record 30/11/2018 zetoc_biblio_july2017
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11. Additional Facilities
Download Zetoc records and save as text file
View search history
results of search
Links to:
Electronic resources
Inter-library loan page
British Library Direct document ordering
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12. Links to Full Text
‘More information…’ (or customised) link from full Zetoc record
OpenURL Resolver – electronic resources
Institution must set up own Resolver
Access to full text depends on rights
Default link to Copac and Google Scholar
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13. Manchester University Open URL Resolver
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14. Inter-Library Loan A request page provides details of the item.
Two options can be set up by institutions:
link to the ILL service provided by the users’ institution
fill in a form and print it out to facilitate making an ILL request
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15. Requesting an article from an Institution library
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16. Ordering Articles from British Library
Integrated document ordering facility
Order any article online from British Library Direct
Pay by credit card, including copyright fee
Various options for delivery
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17. Z39.50 Need correct filter for importing and to configure correctly
Protocol that allows searches across a range of databases
Search and import records from Zetoc using bibliographic databases, such as EndNote
Import a text file of saved Zetoc records
Need correct filter for importing and to configure correctly
More detailed information can be found at:
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18. EndNote and Reference Manager
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19. Zetoc Alert Email Alert service
(Current Awareness Service)
alerts sent:
the day information is loaded into Zetoc
s tables of contents of selected journals
s results of pre-defined search criteria on author(s) and keywords
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20. Creating an Alert Add searches
Specify an address and can include a list name
Can include hypertext links to full records
Add journals
Add searches
Alert lists expire after 12 months but can be amended or renewed at any time
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23. Creating a Zetoc Alert – Adding Searches
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24. Creating a Zetoc Alert List – Adding Journals
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25. Modify / Delete an Alert
Change options
Renew list
Rename list
Transfer list to new username
Add/remove journals and searches
Delete
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26. Transfer an Alert List
Transfer a list to a new username if a username has expired
Follow the URL in expiry and log in with your new username
You may need to navigate to own login screen
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27. RSS Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication
Provides syndication or summaries of web content
Links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata
Supply link to feed ‘reader’ which checks for updated feeds
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28. Click on RSS button of journal of your choice
Creating an RSS Feed
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29. Creating RSS feeds using bamboo
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30. Any further assistance needed, please contact us at: zetoc@jisc.ac.uk
ANY QUESTIONS?
Any further assistance needed, please contact us at:
Service address:
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