1. Specialised resources:
standards, conference,
theses…
Keeping up to date & social
media
Moira Bent
Faculty Liaison
Librarian
2. Programme
Specialist resources
Standards
Conferences
Theses
Business information
Digimap
Keeping up to date
Emailalerts
RSS feeds
Blogs, wikis, microblogging
3. Finding Engineering Standards
Essential
for design
projects
British
ASTM Other standards
Standard IEEE Standards
Standards available via ILL
s
4. 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
5. 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/international.php
6. 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
7. 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.
9. 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
10. What do you do now? How do you keep up to
date in your academic work?
1. Looking at a journal regularly
2. Scanning a website regularly
3. Email alerts from my favourite journals
4. Email alerts on topics I‟m interested in
5. RSS feeds
6. Reading a blog
7. Twitter
8. Facebook
9. Something else
11. 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...)
12. 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
13. 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
14. Getting started
• Find an RSS reader/viewer e.g. Google
Reader Reader, Netvibes
• Find a site with an RSS feed
Feed
• Click on and paste the link into your
Link chosen RSS reader
• Go back to your RSS viewer at regular
intervals for your „news‟ – it‟ll be there waiting
Read for you
16. 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/
17. 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
18. 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
19. Keeping up to date with the
Library
Library Web Pages News
Library Events
http://twitter.com/nulibsage
http://www.netvibes.com/nulibsage
21. Next session s
Practicals – Resources & Social media
Mon 15/10 10.00-11.30 or 5.00-6.30 ArmB 1.64
Lecture: EndNote & referencing
Fri 19/10 10.00-11.00
Practical -Endnote:
Mon 22/10 10.00-11.30 ArmB 1.64
Sign up for workshops using the Library Guide tab
Editor's Notes
A key digital geographic information product depicting the UK marine and coastal zone environment. This rich vector dataset is provided in six individual Topic Layers, each of which contains a number of Themes: