Specialised resources:standards, conference, theses…
Keeping up to date & social media
Moira BentFaculty Liaison Librarian
Programme
Specialist resources Standards Conferences Theses Business information Digimap
Keeping up to date Email alerts RSS feeds
Blogs, wikis, microblogging
Finding Engineering Standards
Essential for design projects
British Standar
ds
IEEE Standards
ASTM Standards
Other standards
available via ILL
Finding Conference papers
In LibrarySearch – but not comprehensive
In databases such as Compendex and Web of Knowledge
Lots of full text in IEEEXplore
Conference Papers Index in Proquest
We do not have all conference papers – you may need to use ILL
Theses
Newcastle University PhD Theses
• Library Search – limit to Theses
UK Theses• ETHOS - http://ethos.bl.uk/• Some available online (free), many require payment• Index to Theses http://www.theses.com/ (abs – not full-text)
International Theses
• Various databases available to help you find out about other research degrees
• Usually difficult to obtain• http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/resin/finding_information/theses/internatio
nal.php
Business information
Company Information Business Source Premier – articles plus
company reports FAME – UK company data and reports Amadeus – European company reports
Market Research Mintel Euromonitor GMID
Marine Digimap
Charted Raster Scanned and geocoded images of the Admiralty Chart series, ideal for general
reference and backdrop mapping but are NOT for navigational use. Variety of scales
Hydrospatial Bathymetry and Elevation - The nature and shape of the Earth's surface on
land (elevation) and under the sea (bathymetry). Natural and Physical Features - The natural topography of the coastal and
marine environment including the biological, physical and chemical features within it.
Structures and Obstructions - Man-made physical structures and obstructions.
Socio Economic and Marine Use - Specified areas where one or more activities have been designated, are known to occur or are restricted.
Conservation and Environmental Protection - Designated boundaries for the purposes of conservation and environmental protection of natural and cultural heritage.
Climate and Oceanography - Climate and weather information, tides and currents or locations where measurement and monitoring is or has been know to occur.
Keeping up with the crowd
Keeping up to date with what’s new
The web is full of information – news sites, publications, blogs,
How do you know what’s new? Databases, EJs and websites are updated every day YOU have to go back and check Overwhelming, time-consuming, inefficient, relies on you
remembering
Instead... Save your search strategy as an email alert (available in
many e-resources) Use RSS feeds to make new information come to you
instead
What do you do now? How do you keep up to date in your academic work?
1. Looking at a journal regularly2. Scanning a website regularly3. Email alerts from my favourite journals4. Email alerts on topics I’m interested in5. RSS feeds6. Reading a blog7. Twitter8. Facebook9. Something else
Email alerts
Save your search strategy as an email alert
Get alerts for your favourite journals too Receive an email every time a new article
is added to the resource which matches your search
Receive an email every time a new issue of the journal is published
You can usually determine the frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, etc...)
Email alerts
Individual databases – for topics• Compendex, Scopus, Science Direct
Zetoc – for journal TOCs• http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/• British Library's TOC for journal articles &
conference proceedings. • search 1993 =• 28,000 journals & 45m articles &
conference proceedings• email alerts by subject / journal TOC• set up RSS feeds for journals
Keeping up to date: RSS feeds
For web based content – web pages, EJs
Information sent to a “reader” – your personal web page
Relies on you checking your reader regularly – you may need to change your work practices
Easy links to original information
Getting started
Reader
• Find an RSS reader/viewer e.g. Google Reader, Netvibes
Feed
• Find a site with an RSS feed
Link
• Click on and paste the link into your chosen RSS reader
Read
• Go back to your RSS viewer at regular intervals for your ‘news’ – it’ll be there waiting for you
Now you’ve definitely found it all – relax!But….
Blogs as an academic source
Published for many reasons
(e.g. academic / research / entertainment / personal, etc)
Anyone can now easily publish on the web
Therefore, important to evaluate the information found
Blogs at Newcastle http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/ EndNote Blog http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/Endnote_Users Moira Bent’s Information Literacy Blog
http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/moira.bent The Monitor http://dieselduck.blogspot.com/
Finding Blogs
Google BlogSearch http://blogsearch.google.com/
ResearchBlogging http://www.researchblogging.org/
Technorati http://technorati.com/
Many Blogs have RSS feeds so you can subscribe using your RSS reader
Micro-blogging (Twitter)
Currently a popular method of relaying small amounts of information
Increase in number of Library / Information twitter feeds
http://twitter.com/nulibsage
Regular news items from the Library, new resources, update on services, news and current awareness items from beyond Newcastle
If you don’t use Twitter, you can still follow the news via the RSS feed
Keeping up to date with the Library
Library Web Pages News
Library Events
http://twitter.com/nulibsage
http://www.netvibes.com/nulibsage
Sail off into the sun!
Next session s
Practicals – Resources & Social mediaMon 15/10 10.00-11.30 or 5.00-6.30 ArmB 1.64
Lecture: EndNote & referencingFri 19/10 10.00-11.00
Practical -Endnote:Mon 22/10 10.00-11.30 ArmB 1.64
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