Keeping Current With Scholarly Literature

This will explore the options you have to stay up to date with scholarly literature. It will also cover how to set up alerts so that you are automatically notified about new developments in your area.

By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to:

• Compare various alerting services
• Choose appropriate databases for the alerts
• Set up alerts as needed

Examples will be given in a variety of subject areas to illustrate the principles and ideas presented.

The tutorial is divided into seven sections:

• Options for Keeping Current
• Benefits and Cautions of Alerting Service Options
• E-mail Alerts versus RSS Feeds
• Selecting Databases for Alerts
• Creating a Great Topic Search Alert
• Creating a Great Author Search Alert
• Signing up for Alerts

Before going through the material in these sections, you should be familiar with the content in Basic Searching Skills.

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