What is covered in this guide? This guide includes short introductory walkthroughs of some of the services covered or mentioned in the keeping up to date with emerging research session. Setting up a saved search alert from the Library Catalogue First log in to your patron account from http://library.dur.ac.uk/search or https://library.dur.ac.uk/patroninfo Select the Search catalogue button next to the text Search the catalogue in the table on this screen. You now need to perform a search and save it. A keyword search may be the best search if you wish to be notified every time we add an item on a particular subject to the catalogue. Alternatively if you are waiting for a specific title to arrive in the library you could do a title search. Type in the search that you want to be notified about in future and select Go. Keeping up to date with emerging (walkthrough)
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What is covered in this guide?
This guide includes short introductory walkthroughs of some of the services covered or
mentioned in the keeping up to date with emerging research session.
Setting up a saved search alert from the Library Catalogue
First log in to your patron account from http://library.dur.ac.uk/search or https://library.dur.ac.uk/patroninfo
Select the Search catalogue button next to the text Search the catalogue in the table on this screen. You now need to perform a search and save it.
A keyword search may be the best search if you wish to be notified every time we add an item on a particular subject to the catalogue. Alternatively if you are waiting for a specific title to arrive in the library you could do a title search.
Type in the search that you want to be notified about in future and select Go.
The results will be shown on the screen – make any adjustments that you wish to broaden or narrow the search using the Modify Search button,
When you are happy with the results select the Save this Search button next to your search terms towards the top of the screen.
Now select the Patron record button
From you record, scroll down and select Preferred searches.
The search you just saved should be listed there. Put a tick in the box next to your search in the column Mark for Email. Then click on Update List. You will receive an email every time the library acquires a new book that meets those keywords.
To receive emails when we add anything that matches, select the checkbox on the Mark for email column and select Update List.
To edit or clear your alerts: login in as above, select Preferred searches and mark and clear those you no longer want.
Setting up a saved search alert from the Library Discover Service
From Discover (http://discover.durham.ac.uk/), You can log in to your account to save searches
by clicking no the link for My Account in the top right of the screen.
Once you are logged in, you will have an option to save
your search by clicking on Save query, or to subscribe to
an RSS fee of that search result, on the left of the screen
of search results. When you save the query, you will be
prompted to name it and choose to just save it to your
account, or save it and set up an email alert.
Be aware that an alert can potentially send you a lot of
results by email for you to manage.
Setting up ZETOC alerts:
Zetoc is a service provided by MIMAS and the British Library which allows you to subscribe to
have a Journal Table of Contents list for each new issue of a journal you might be interested in.
Enter ZETOC into the library catalogue as a title search and connect to it by clicking the link on
the catalogue record. You will need to login using your university username and password, even
when on site.
Select ZETOC alert.
Note, if you wish to access rss feeds for each journal, click on the link marked Zetoc RSS and then search or browse to locate the journal you are interested in.
Enter your email address and a name for your alert. You can return to this and edit the terms within this alert at any time.
Select Create, and scroll down to the foot of the next screen. There are two options: Add journals and Add searches.
Adding journals:
Select Add journals to receive emails when a new issue of a journal is published. The email will list the table of contents.
You can search or browse for journal titles.
Then add them to your list. If you search for something that is already in your list it will tell you. If you have multiple lists, you can add the same journal title to more than one list.
Adding author/title searches:
Select Add searches when you register or Add Author/Title Searches when in the edit screen, as above. By using this option you will receive email notifications of relevant articles published in any journal indexed in ZETOC, not just those in your journals list. Add keywords that appear in an article title or an author's name. You can search for multiple terms/phrases and combine title keywords and an author.
To edit your list at any time, login to ZETOC Alert and choose your list from the drop down menu. If you only have one list, only one name will appear here. Then select Renew/Modify.
At the foot of the next screen you can delete searches or journal titles, or add new ones.
Filtering RSS Feeds
Sometimes, you may find a website or journal offers an RSS feed of content which gives you
some information you want, and a lot of extra you aren't interested in. In that instance, you might
want to modify the RSS feed by trying to filter out some of the unwanted information.
PLEASE NOTE: to filter a ZETOC journal alert you need to use a browser other than Internet
Explorer. Firefox is available on university computers or can be downloaded for free at
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
Feed sifter http://feedsifter.com/ this is a very straight forward filter with all instructions on
screen:
Use one search per line.
Multiple keywords per search are comma separated.
You can then subscribe:
To create a more refined filter you can use Yahoo! Pipes (see following pages)
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ . There is a full tutorial and additionial help available on the
website, but a quick guide is included below for reference.
You can log on with Google or Facebook or you can subscribe to the service. Then select Create
