1. Keeping up to date with new research Nicola Conway Liaison Librarian

2. Format of the session How? Part 1 – email vs RSS What? – Books – Journal articles – Journal Table of Contents (ToCs) – Mailing lists, Blogs, Research news & funding opportunities How? Part 2 – Filtering your feeds

3. How? Automated alerts either: Email RSS (Really Simple Syndication) – Feeds – Feed readers Browser Online

4. Feeds 1.Durham University News: http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/ – http://www.dur.ac.uk/feeds/news/?section=1 http://www.dur.ac.uk/feeds/news/?section=1 2.BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ – http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml

5. Feeds

6. Feed Readers Feed readers: – Google Reader Google Reader – NetVibes NetVibes – Bloglines Bloglines

7. Task One Set up a RSS feed reader. Use Internet Explorer or register for an online reader such as Google Reader Subscribe to a generic feed e.g.. – Durham University central news – Durham University Library news – BBC news

8. What? Books: Library Catalogue New items purchased by the library Other catalogues Publisher sites Keeping up to date for researchers web page

9. Task Two Create a RSS feed or an email alert for a book from one or more of the following: – Library Catalogue (email) – New items purchased by the library (RSS) – Copac (RSS) – A publisher site (email/RSS)

10. What? Journal Articles: Web of Science Google Scholar Keeping up to date for researchers web page

11. Task Three Create a RSS feed or an email alert for a journal from one or more of the following: – Web of Science (RSS and email) – Google Scholar (email)

12. What? Journal Table of Contents: Zetoc JournalTOCs Keeping up to date for researchers web page

13. Task Four Create a RSS feed or an email alert for a journal table of contents from one or more of the following: – Zetoc (RSS and email) – JournalTOCs (RSS)

14. What? Mailing Lists: – JISC Mail Blogs: – Google Blogs Web Page Alerts Research news & funding opportunities Keeping up to date for researchers web page

15. Task Five Spend some time having a look at some of the resources: – JISC Mail – Blogs – Web Page Alerts – Research news & funding opportunities

16. RSS filters See only relevant information from your feed Define keywords Filter services – Feed sifter Feed sifter – Pipes Pipes

17. Task Six Set up a filter using Feedsifter Subscribe to your filtered feed

18. More information – Nicola Conway – e-mail: nicola.conway@durham.ac.uknicola.conway@durham.ac.uk – telephone: 0191 334 2975 Liaison Librarian – www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ Web page – www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/ www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/

19. Questions