1. Keeping up-to-date with the literature
WISER Focus on
Keeping up-to-date with the literature
Ljilja Ristic & Linda Atkinson

2. Overview of the session
Introduce different ways of keeping up to
date with latest research
Present a range of e-resources of interest
Show different types of Alerts
Demonstrate how to set up updates and alerts

3. Oxlip electronic resources
Bibliographic databases
Electronic journals
Information Gateways
Internet resources (quality assessed)
General and reference material

5. ALERTS Saved search alerts SDI, My Profile, Saved searches,
updates…
Table of Contents Alerts
Current issue alerts, Journal alerts,
journal contents page…

6. Accessing Alerts Password registration is required
For remote access - ATHENS password
VPN service registration

7. Saved search alerts From subject specific databases WebSPIRS
INSPEC, Biological Abstracts, GeoRef…
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts – CSA
Materials research, Environmental Sciences
Engineering Village
Compendex
Ovid
Medline, Embase, CINAHL…

8. WebSPIRS Science and Engineering databases
This platform covers the main science databases:
INSPEC database of physics, engineering,
and computing research
GeoRef the main geology database
Biological Abstracts of biology research
Zoological Record – index to zoology literature
Other

10. CSA Science and Technology
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts portal includes
the following science and technology databases:
Materials Research database with METADEX
Computer Technology for computer science
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
Environmental Sciences
Aquatic Science
Other

12. EEVL – Engineering Village
This platform provides access to the most
comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering
database - Compendex Ei.
To create search alerts you need:
To register on the web site
Conduct a search on a topic
Create alert
You can Edit or delete alerts
Weekly updates will be ed

14. OVID Medical databases
Most of the big Medical databases are
provided through the OVID platform.
To set up an alert remotely you must go into
OVID using your Personal Athens user-id
and password.
Within the OU network you will need to
register to set up an alert
A useful feature is the ability to suspend
alerts.

16. Multidisciplinary databases
Web of Knowledge
This platform has the Citation databases
that fully index journals from Science,
Social Science, Humanities
SCOPUS
This platform provides access to medical,
engineering, and environmental databases.
It also includes around full-text journals

19. Alerts from e-journals
Table of Contents (ToC) for journals include:
ZETOC – British Library electronic Table of Contents
TDNet – Oxford electronic journals
PrePRINT Network scientific or technical documents circulated electronically

20. ZETOC e-journals British Library electronic Table of Contents
Around current journals
16000 conference proceedings published per year
Covers 1993 to date/Updated daily
Alerts to keep up-to-date
with new articles

22. E-journals at Oxford -TDNet
TDNet platform provides access to all e-journals
at Oxford:
Around e-journal titles currently available
All subjects covered
Alerts can be set up for selected journal titles
Alerts limited to journal titles held at Oxford only
For comprehensive update on a topic you
need to search subject specific database.

24. Database search Alerts vs e-journal Alerts
Provide an update on a topic of interest
Are based on previously conducted search
Search strategy defines the content
Search strategy needs to be reviewed if topic of interest changes
E-journal alerts:
Alert you to new issues of journals
Limited to selected journal titles
Provide alerts from specific journal collections

25. Contacts Ljilja Ristic Physical Sciences Librarian Subject Consultant
Radcliffe Science Library
Tel.(01865)
Linda Atkinson
Reader Services Librarian
Healthcare Library – John Radcliffe Hospital
Tel.(01865)
NEXT WISER Science: Finding quality information on the Internet.
Monday 20 November