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.
Science week study tip 4 is just one way that you can make those databases work for you by creating search alerts. You're busy people with full lives, so anything that can save you a bit of time must be a good thing. Search alerts are a great way of keeping up to date with new articles in your research area. Once you've got a search that gives you the most relevant results, create a search alert and you'll be notified when new articles that match your search criteria are added to the database. The following screencasts show you how it's done in a selection of the databases you have access to through the Library and also through Google Scholar.
Welcome to Science week study tip number 3. It's short and sweet today; just to draw your attention to the amazing amount of quality resources on developing your learning skills while you're studying here at Birkbeck. The Birkbeck Learning Skills and the Library and Information Skills sections on Moodle bring together a great range of resources to help you with different aspects of studying; time management, planning your search for information, how to summarise, paraphrase, quote correctly, managing and using information and much more. This short screencast shows you how to get to them and gives and overview of what's in them.
