April 11, 2006
Keep Up to Date with AutoAlerts
Are you finding it difficult to keep up to date with the latest research in your field? Are you concerned about missing new research that may impact your work? Now you can automatically receive regular email notices of newly published articles customized to your interests!
What is an AutoAlert?
An AutoAlert, also known as SDI or Selective Dissemination of Information, is a saved search that runs automatically each time new data is added to a database of research literature. Your AutoAlert profile retrieves any new article citations on a topic of interest and emails them to you without any effort on your part.
Why would I want to set up an AutoAlert?
AutoAlert searches allow you to keep up to date on the latest published research on a topic or author of interest to you. Since search results are delivered to you automatically by email, it saves you time.
What kind of information will I receive?
You will receive citations and abstracts of newly published research papers on your topic or author. Web links allow you to go to the database record and to full text when available. Depending on the database, search results can be delivered to you on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
What kind of searches can I use to create AutoAlerts?
You can create AutoAlerts using keyword topics, journal names, or author names. In Web of Science you can create an alert to notify you when a newly published journal article has cited a paper of interest to you.
What databases are available?
AutoAlerts are available for research article databases in most subject areas. You can also create AutoAlerts in multidisciplinary databases like Scopus and ISI Web of Science (use the Current Contents interface for creating AutoAlerts with Web of Science data).
How do I get started?
Go to this web page: http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/auto.html, select a research article database to create your alert, and follow the step-by-step directions.
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March 10, 2005
links software allows sharing of URLs
links.med.yale.edu is a beta project of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and the Yale University Library.
links is a group linklog; you can post the links you are reading and look at what other people and groups of people are reading on the web here. Anyone at Yale (valid netid required) can get an account simply by signing in through the Yale Authentication Service (use the link at right). Once you have an account, use the bookmarklet to add your own links.
links lets anyone create and join groups here too. Groups are sets of people with some shared interest: a course project team, a research unit, or some friends, whatever you want. Both your own account and groups you join can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.
Once you're set up and saving your links here, you can syndicate your own recent links or your group links using RSS, or export your whole set of personal links to a number of formats for use in other systems. See the docs for more details about how to do this.
Our goal is to make links an extremely useful and easy way to share information or just keep notes for yourself. Over the next few months we will be working to improve how links can keep more detailed information about your links, such as bibliographic fields you for journal articles.
links is a beta project for the 2004-2005 academic year; we hope it will be helpful during this beta phase, and we would like to hear from you about what we might do to improve it. Use the contact page above to let us know what you think.
Access is at http://links.med.yale.edu/
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November 15, 2004
Classroom Instruction and Critical Thinking
Library Research Workshops
Do your students have the library research skills necessary to succeed at course-related projects?
We can help! Science librarians are available to come to the classroom and teach students about efficient library research techniques and demonstrate key databases and research tools. We will work with you to design a tutorial that focuses on course needs and project-based goals. Please contact one of the librarians listed below or send an email message to science.reference@yale.edu to discuss how we can assist you. See our
existing instruction modules.
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RefWorks bibliography citation manager
RefWorks Bibliography Manager Now Available
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography manager that allows you to create your own personal database of references. You can use these references in writing papers, and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in a variety of styles (i.e., Chicago, Science, Nature). Best of all, RefWorks is available for free to the Yale community!RefWorks allows you to:
- Organize and create a personal database online - no more index cards to write out and organize. Add value to references by including your notes and keywords.
- Import references from a variety of journal article databases using the available import filters.
- Search your database of references.
- Format bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds - this saves hours of typing time and decreases
the number of errors in creating tedious bibliographies. - Easily make changes to your paper and reformat in seconds.
- Share your RefWorks database with others if you are doing collaborative research.
- Export references to EndNote and other bibliographic management software.
RefWorks is similar to software-based products like EndNote. The benefits of online access include:
- Available from anywhere you have a Web connection - no downloading or installation.
- All upgrades are included - no charge for new features. The latest upgrades are loaded on the RefWorks server so all users automatically have access to the most recent version.
- Can be used across multiple platforms. As a Web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, and Unix.
First time users will need to register for an account.
For additional information about RefWorks and EndNote see http://www.library.yale.edu/cite/.
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