This blog is for students and staff in Biological Sciences and Earth & Planetary Sciences at Birkbeck and students studying science subjects at Birkbeck Stratford. Keep up to date with Library news, information about new resources and web sites, tips for making the most of existing resources, as well snippets on science from around the web.
Showing posts with label alerting services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alerting services. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
ScienceDirect's Top 25
Keep up with the latest research in your subject area with ScienceDirect's Top 25. Every quarter they list the 25 papers with the most downloads in a variety of subject areas. Check the latest list for your subject area at http://top25.sciencedirect.com. You can also sign up to receive the list as a quarterly email alert.
Monday, 18 January 2010
Keeping up to date with alerting services
There are a plethora of ways to keep up to date with the journal literature in your subject area - a few alerting sites you might want to investigate are listed below.
- TicTocs - a journal alerting service that covers hundreds of journals from different publishers http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
- Zetoc - a journal alerting service from the British Library. Go to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ and click on Alerts
- PubCrawler - an alerting service for PubMed and Genbank http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/
- ScienceDirect also gives you the opportunity to set up alerts to the journals it contains . Go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/ and click on the Alerts link
- Use the Web of Science to create journal and search alerts. Go to http://isiknowledge.com/wos Sign in to create a profile and you can then create your journal alerts and search alerts
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