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

Film and Sound Online

Film & Sound Online is a set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. The collection includes film from organisations such as The Biochemical Society, St George's Hospital Medical School and the Wellcome.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/databases/arts/fso

Plagiarism tutorial

This tutorial, developed by the University of Leicester, gives some good examples of what does and does not constitute plagiarism and some very good advice for anyone producing a piece of academic writing, from undergraduate essays to dissertations and theses.
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/ld/resources/study/plagiarism-tutorial
There are subject specific tutorials for Biological Sciences, Geology and more

ChemSpider

ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/ is a free chemical structure search engine covering millions of chemical structures with physical and chemical properties, spectra, links to Internet resources and more. You can search by name, structure or substructure, properties, etc

ARKive

ARKive http://www.arkive.org/ is a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species. Watch David Attenborough's short introduction to ARKive to get a feel for what this web site provides http://www.arkive.org/about/promo.html. The site has been recently updated with lots of Darwin related material.

Internet Resources for Genetics and Evolution

Intute's latest booklet is "Internet Resources for Genetics and Evolution" which brings together web sites, databases and learing materials in this area. Details are at http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/booklets/evolution.html where there are links to all the web sites and a pdf booklet to download

Chemistry textbook sites and a new fungal image site

New Internet resources from Intute:

Textbook sites
Chemistry : a molecular approach, first edition
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090520-09054642
Chemistry, fifth edition
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090520-08351274
Fundamentals of chemistry 4E
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090520-08585115
General chemistry, fourth edition
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090520-08463873
Introductory chemistry
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090520-07540183

Image site
Fungal planet
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090519-10255644