Pgrptss keeping up_to_date_v1_handout
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
2 likes•378 views
Durham PGR Part-time Summer School 2015 Session: Keeping up to date with emerging research See also: - Handout (1) Session walkthrough - Handout (2) RSS overview - Handout (3) Email folders & rules with outlook
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (17)
Viewers also liked
Viewers also liked (10)
Similar to Pgrptss keeping up_to_date_v1_handout
Similar to Pgrptss keeping up_to_date_v1_handout (20)
More from Jamie Bisset
More from Jamie Bisset (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Pgrptss keeping up_to_date_v1_handout
- 1. Keeping up to date with emerging research James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.uk Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)
- 2. Saved Search Alerts Journal TOCs Citation Alerts News feeds (RSS) Academic Networks & Social Media
- 3. Session outline - How (part 1) - email alerts, RSS feeds and RSS readers - What - Books - Journal articles - Journal Table of Contents (ToCs) - Academic Networks - Coping Strategies - How (part 2) - Filtering your feeds
- 6. Using Email Alerts Think about: - weekly / monthly / bi-monthly - separate folders in your mail account - how many can you realistically read / manage
- 7. Using RSS Feeds: Browser or Online Reader
- 8. Using RSS Feeds: Browser or Online Reader
- 9. RSS Feeds
- 10. Feed Readers • Feed readers: – Google Reader – NetVibes – Bloglines – Feedreader – Feedly – RSSOwl
- 12. Task 1 • Set up a RSS feed reader. Use Internet Explorer or register for an online reader such as Feedly • Subscribe to a generic feed e.g: - Durham University central news - A research funder in your field
- 14. What? • Books: – Library Catalogue – New items purchased by the library – Other catalogues – Publisher sites
- 15. Task 2 • Create a RSS feed or an email alert from one or more of the following: • Library Catalogue (email) • Discover (email/RSS) • New items purchased by the library (RSS) • Copac (RSS) • A publisher site (email/RSS)
- 17. What? • Journal articles: – Web of Science (email or rss) – Google Scholar (email)
- 19. Task 3 • 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) • Another database in your subject
- 21. What? • Journal Table of Contents (TOCs): – Zetoc – Journal TOCs
- 26. Task 4 • 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) • Journal TOCs (RSS)
- 28. What? • Mailing Lists: – JISCMail (National Academic mailing list platform)
- 29. What? • Funding Opportunites – ResearchProfessional http://bit.ly/1wGTESZ – Funding Councils etc.
- 30. What? • Academic Networks – Piirus; identify collaboration opportunities / find researchers with particular interests / skills / knowledge areas – ResearchGate; network, make connections and showcase your publications, ask or answer questions, organise conferences and workshops – Academia.edu; Online CV profile aimed at academic sector – LinkedIN; Online CV profile aimed beyond academic sector – Blogs; Academics, Research projects, Technology Groups,
- 31. What? • Twitter – http://twitter.com/search/
- 32. What? Journal article covering related research and discussion Newspaper coverage on related topic Video clip from presentation
- 33. Task 5 • Spend some time having a look at some of the resources: • JISC Mail • Piirus • ResearchGate • Academic Blogs / Scoop.it • Twitter
- 34. What? • Twitter – via Tweetdeck or Hootsuite List of Tweets Saved Searches Interactions Scheduled Tweets Saved Tweets Private Messages
- 36. YES NO Tip – time management Can you read it in less than 5 minutes? Read it!
- 37. Tip - Pocket
- 38. Tip - Pocket
- 43. How? – RSS Filters • See only the relevant information from a feed (or multiple feeds. • Define Key words • Filter services - Feed sifter - Pipes – see handout
- 44. How? – RSS Filters • 8th June, Yahoo announced would be discontinuing Pipes in September 2015. • As of 22nd June, Feed sifter remains inaccessible Alternatives • rssmix.com and feedcombine.com allow you to combine multiple feeds into one. • feedrinse.com allows you modify and filter feeds for certain content.
- 45. Task 6 • Set up a filter using Feedsifter • Subscribe to your filtered feed
- 46. Image Credits [Slide 4] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Stylianos Mystakidis. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/90309235@N00/3989939286 [Slides 25] Via Flickr Creative Commons by Jacinta Iluch Valero. Original at http://www.flickr.com/photos/70626035@N00/8265808436 [Slide 28] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Adelle & Justin. Original at http://www.flickr.com/photos/10278395@N08/3687392107 [Slides 33] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Ian Scott. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/38000818@N06/7007574429 [Slide 41] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Rromir Imami. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/73515668@N08/7749708352 [Slide 49] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by yang zhao. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124411666@N01/24063969 [Slides 61-69] Vitae®, © 2010 Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited‘ Available at www.vitae.ac.uk/rdf
- 47. Measuring Researcher Development Vitae Researcher Development Framework [see image credits]
Editor's Notes
- Approx 1hr 50 minutes into session. Filtering a feed. RSS feeds are great but quite addictive and you’ll soon find that you have lots of unread feeds unless you are very selective about what you subscribe to. Filters are one way to make sure that you just get the information you need. Feedsifter basic as you can easily filter a feed work by creating a new feed that you can subscribe to – means you can still receive the original but also have a cut down version. Have to use Firefox to filter Zetoc RSS feeds as it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer for Zetoc (e.g. Zetoc Journal feeds can come as RSS feeds) Make sure it’s the FEED URL you type in Multiple keywords per one search are comma separated (AND operator) on the same line – no space after the comma Can expand a search by using words on different lines (OR operator) DEMO one of the news feeds searched earlier – i.e. Durham library or BBC filter using a couple of keywords on each line – will bring back more results – use one word on each line filter using two words on the same line(s) - to bring back less results - use a comma to separate words (no space after the comma) Mention Pipes (Yahoo) but don’t demo - more info on the handout: looks more daunting but ok to use and very flexible. Can be more sophisticated with your filter than with Feedsifter. you can bring together lots of feeds, sort them, filter them by author or descriptor and then create a new RSS feed from that to read in your usual reader.