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Zetoc

Electronic Table of Contents from the British Library

Zetoc Support

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What is Zetoc?

• The British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)

• Citations for articles and papers (abstracts available for journals which have an agreement between the BL and journal publisher)

• Covers over 28,000 journals

• Over 45 million articles journal articles and conference proceedings

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Coverage

• Wide-ranging– Science and Technology, Medicine, Law, Engineering,

Business, Finance, Arts, Humanities

• Journals selected are most requested research journals

• 1993-present

• Updated daily

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Access• Free to JISC-sponsored UK further and higher education institutions

and research councils

• NHS organisations in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland subscribe

• Logging into Zetoc: You will usually have to enter the username and password provided by your institution, but the precise procedure can differ so you may wish to check with your library.

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Searching

• Search by keyword(s)

• Search terms can be entered in one field/any number of fields

• Phrase searching

• Truncation by wildcard

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Search Example

Reduction of nitrogen emissions

• keywords– e.g. nitrogen emissions

• “phrase search”– e.g. “nitrogen emissions”

• “phrase search” and a keyword– e.g. “nitrogen emissions” reduction

• “phrase search” and truncation– e.g. “nitrogen emissions” reduc* – (Searches for reduced, reducing, reduction etc.)

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Additional Facilities

• Download Zetoc records and save as text file

• View search history

• Email results of search

• Links to:– Electronic resources– Inter-library loan page– British Library Direct document ordering

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Links to Full Text

• ‘More information…’ (or customised) link from full Zetoc record

• OpenURL Resolver – electronic resources

• Institution must set up own Resolver

• Access to full text depends on rights

• Default link to Copac, Scirus and Google Scholar

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Inter-Library Loan• A request page provides details of the item.

• Two options can be set up by institutions:

1. link to the ILL service provided by the users’ institution

2. fill in a form and print it out to facilitate making an ILL request

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ILL customised page

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Ordering Articles from British Library

• Integrated document ordering facility

• Order any article online from British Library Direct

• Pay by credit card, including copyright fee

• Various options for delivery

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Z39.50• Protocol that allows searches across a range of databases

• Search and import records from Zetoc using bibliographic databases, such as EndNote

• Import a text file of saved Zetoc records

• Need correct filter for importing and to configure correctly

• More detailed information can be found at: http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/z3950.html

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Endnote/Reference Manager

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Zetoc Alert

• Email alerting service

• Emails tables of contents of selected journals

• Emails results of pre-defined search criteria on author(s) and keywords

• Email alerts sent: – the day information is loaded into Zetoc

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Creating an Alert

• Specify an email address and can include a list name

• Can include hypertext links to full records

• Add journals

• Add searches

• Alert lists expire after 12 months but can be renewed at any time

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Modify / Delete an Alert

• Change email options

• Renew list

• Rename list

• Transfer list to new Athens username

• Add/remove journals and searches

• Delete

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Transfer an Alert

• Transfer a list to a new username if a username has expired

• Follow the URL in expiry email and log in with your new username

• You may need to navigate to own login screen

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RSS

• Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication

• Provides syndication or summaries of web content

• Links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata

• Supply link to feed ‘reader’ which checks for updated feeds

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Click on RSS button of journal of your choice

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Any Questions?

• Any further assistance needed, please contact us at:

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