Tired of spending time surfing the web for current research?
This section introduces you to ways of keeping up to date with developments in your subject area.
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If you have added your own feeds to the 'My News & Updates' widget that originally sat on the homepage then login and your selection of feeds will be displayed in the widget below. Your 'My News & updates' widget is also available to add to the personalisation section on the homepage.
If you would like to find out about RSS Feeds then please click on the 'Feeds Help' link below
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After performing a search on the Knowledge Network or on certain databases, you can save the search to run again at a later date. Most services will also have an alerting option to remind you of the saved search or to alert you to new information added to your saved search.
After completing a search on the Knowledge Network you have the choice to save your search query to your My Resources Space, so you can easily rerun the search query at a later date. Learn more about saving your search.
OvidSP lets you store search sets created during any search session, log off and return at a later time. You can then set up an autoalert to remind you when new content is available for your search. Browse the OVID Help to find out more about saving searches and setting up alerts.
You can save searches in EBSCO and set up alerts to remind you when new info is available. To start saving searches you need to set up a My EBSCOhost account.
To find about saving searches in other databases, please contact us.
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Keep up to date with publications in your field!
By subscribing to any of the services below, you will receive table of contents alerts as new journal issues are published.
Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. Choose to be alerted by email alerts or RSS Feeds.
Journal Table of contents services. Create a MyTOC account and add your favourite journals or you can export an individual TOC RSS Feed to a feed reader.
The Feeds library provides access to over 800 table of contents feeds. Search by type 'Table of Contents' to view what is available.
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Current Awarness Bulletins help you keep up to date with a specific subject area. Click on the links below to view a bulletin, browse a list of bulletins and/or subscribe to a bulletin.
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Communities and Networks are a great way of keeping up to date with a subject area. They provide a platform for members to share ideas.
Keep up to date with community websites via feeds and email alerts.
Keep up to date with Shared Space communities with email alerts.
Start a Group or find a Group
The National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail', is a service designed specifically for the further and higher education and research communities
To find out more about finding or setting up a community or network, please contact the KSG Communities team.
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Find health and social care information to use on your smartphone or tablet. Search for apps and mobile websites from suppliers including Ebsco, SIGN, Oxford University Press and BNF in our new Mobile Knowledge area.
Mobile apps are downloaded on to your device and can then usually work offline (without being connected to the internet). Apps can also take advantage of features on your device like cameras or sound recorders. These tools are developed for specific devices so you may find that one has been created for the iPhone but not the Blackberry or vice-versa.
A mobile website is accessed via your mobile device’s web browser so needs an internet connection. These can normally be accessed by any type of smartphone or tablet. Some websites will have a different URL or web address for their mobile site, on others the site will detect your device and display a special optmised version.
To browse the library of health and social care apps and mobile websites, visit:
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Refworks is a tool to manage references and citations. References can be added from The Knowledge Network, from the databases or manually. It is available to all with an NHS Scotland Athens username.
RefShare allows a RefWorks user to easily share a folder of references or their entire database with colleagues to share references while collaborating on a shared project or piece of research.
The Refworks webinars page at http://www.refworks-cos.com/training/ provides a full listing of all online training provided by Refworks, including pre-recorded sessions which you can access at any time.
