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- 1. Keeping Up to Date Allison Bell Gerstein Science Library April 7, 2011
- 6. Think of some current awareness goals for yourself. What are they?
- 11. Intro to RSS http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
- 15. Add RSS Feeds
- 17. CDC Emergency Updates http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca/registry.asp
- 18. Feeds for Blogs
- 22. Automated Searches Using Clinical Queries
- 23. Create RSS feed or Save Search
- 24. Saved Pubmed Search Name it something meaningful
- 26. Why set up RSS readers? Maintain anonymity They have your email address! 1-click “mark as read” = never see them again Have to delete unwanted emails Leave your email for real people Clogs your inbox Unsubscribe in one click Unsubscribe requests may be ignored/delayed RSS Email
- 28. RSS: PubGet
- 31. Email Alerts: Evidence Updates http:// plus.mcmaster.ca/EvidenceUpdates /
- 33. Email Alerts: Evidence Updates
- 36. TOCs through RSS
- 37. New Articles through Email
- 45. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- LLL= life long learning
- -gaps “ you don’t know what you don’t know ”, but could come across questions or read in the lit something you are unfamiliar with. ‘managing IP team’ PUSH yourself, don’t just gravitate to what you are comfortable with -Goal ‘maintain current awareness in my field’ is WAY too broad, needs some parameters. -Could be something concrete like “read everything by my supervisor” or something like “stay current with three top journals in the field”
- Write them down! Couple of minutes
- Activities to match your goals. Pull vs. Push You go to them vs. them coming to you. Favourites = find out while at U of T, talk to colleagues/professors Familiarize yourself with key journals/sources Podcasts – WHO and Harvard School of Public Health
- Turn Goals into activity Another Example: Stay current with the American Journal of Public Health, set up TOC email alerts
- Can be once per day, once per week, in the morning when you get to work, or Sunday evening with a glass of wine. Don’t just skim and delete Daily emails is temporary, you will fall behind ID your knowledge gaps and focus on them when time is short
- At any time or After 1 month critically evaluate success of goals and activities. Are you actively checking your feed reader or do you need email to come to you? Are your emails being deleted without being red due to volume?
- Back to the activity part of your Current Awareness plan. One method is by capturing RSS feeds in a feed reader. How many are familiar with RSS? 3 min video. Watch video only if people are not sure about RSS
- All you need is a google account Organize into Folders based on your goals
- Sign up separately
- Easy to use or you won’t use it!
- Look for Symbol or text Will give you a feed URL or a link to click on Can also search from within Google Reader or Bloglines
- Add feeds for grey lit as well as professional journals CCDR (Canada Communicable Disease Report) also has a feed available
- You can also add feeds for blogs. You may wish to create folders in your feed reader separating out the blog from the journals, from the personal interest content.
- In databases like Pubmed or Pubget. Or U of T subscribed databases. No RSS feeds in Google Scholar, Bing, or Scirus
- Many other ways for keeping current using Pubmed
- Use Clinical Queries for Evidence-based searching. Use reg. Pubmed for everything.
- Demo RSS feed: add to your feed reader, Saved Search, sign up for my NCBI. Email alerts. Pros and cons of both.
- NOT Patient Smith, unless that case is a particularly meaningful one. Not by date either.
- NCBI email alerts feature for saved searches…
- New tool, links you up with PDFs or at the very least article summaries. Demo
- Any PDF capable device
- Another automated option is BMJ Updates - a product of the Health Information Research Unit at McMaster. Here you can search for articles on a topic, or register for e-mail pushes on your specialty.
- Set alerts by General specialty areas, not a search like Pubmed. You can change the frequency so you get them daily, every few days, or weekly. The contents are systematically screened for both relevance and newsworthiness and you can specify what level of each you’re interested in.
- Newsworthiness– can be less ‘newsworthy’ as you are starting out, need to be more newsworthy as you become an expert in your field. -Start at 4 and evaluate
- Sample email alert
- If we do not subscribe to the journal you can read the abstracts and order through ILL, or search Google Scholar to see if the article is freely available online.
- Example of what it looks like
- You’re not going to get the full article, but an abstract and a link to the full text. Keep in mind that you will need to log with your UTORid to access the articles before clicking on the links in your email. Or go into the catalogue and look up the journal there
- Use each journal’s site or TicTOCs: Add your favourite journals to one site, check for all TOCs. Just another option.
- Big FIVE medicine journals as well
- If it’s a top journal, this does not apply. If it is a website, it does. Relevance: one goal might be management of an IP team, may not be covered by a PH journal. Find a management journal instead.
- Scam ads– if a source you perceive as reliable has shady advertising or pop-ups, don’t hesitate to contact them. May be willing to remove offending ads.
- Patients also face problems around critical evaluation of sources My favorite site: medline plus. From the states BUT there isn’t a great canadian alternative, unfortunately -Check with your local public library for recommendations. Upon starting in a community, one of the first things you should do. -Can use ILL for articles from Public Libraries.