Catch up on Research Bites 2013

Research Bites 2013 was a success!  The short, informal seminars held on Wednesdays throughout July and August featured topics relevant to researchers at all levels. Every seminar was captured by Aston Replay and they are all now available to watch online. 

Topics for this year's seminars included:

• Fine-tune your literature searches
• Measuring Research Impact: yours and others’
• Using Endnote to organise your references
• What can Open Access publishing do for you? 
• Managing your Research Data 

You can find more details about the topics and a link to the Aston Replay recording for each in the full programme on the Research Bites 2013 webpage.
If you would like to download the PowerPoint slides for any of the topics, you can also access the Aston Replay recordings, PowerPoint slides and further information via Library Matters on Blackboard > Info for Research > Research Bites 2013.

If you missed your opportunity to recieve a copy of vitae's publication, The informed researcher: Because interacting with information is at the very heart of your research, which features a self-assessment tool for information literacy and maps these skills against the Researcher Development Framework, you can download a copy instead.

Research Bites 2013 announced!

The programme for the Research Bites 2013 seminars has now been announced. These short, informal seminars will be held in MB146 on Wednesdays at 1pm throughout July and August, and feature topics relevant to researchers at all levels. Whether you want a quick refresher on a single topic or a comprehensive updating of your information and research skills, you will find something for you.

Topics for this year's seminars include:

• Fine-tune your literature searches
• Measuring Research Impact: yours and others’
• Using Endnote to organise your references
• What can Open Access publishing do for you? 
• Managing your Research Data 

You will also receive a copy of vitae's publication, The informed researcher: Because interacting with information is at the very heart of your research, which features a self-assessment tool for information literacy and maps these skills against the Researcher Development Framework.

You can find the full programme and more details about each topic on the Research Bites 2013 webpage.

New videos to help you keep up-to-date

Have you discovered Zetoc alerts? If not, Zetoc have recently produced a number of useful videos to introduce you to Zetoc and to show you how to make best use of the services available.

"Zetoc alerts are a very powerful and useful tool. It means that Zetoc tells you when new records that you might wish to review have arrived and takes you to them" 

See the full video here:

Zetoc have this to say about their Screencast Series:

"The Zetoc Screencast Series is intended to provide an introduction to the Zetoc service, and to assist Zetoc users to make full use of the service" 

You can view all the videos at the Zetoc website.

For more information about keeping up-to-date in your subject area, see the relevant tab in your LibGuide.

Be Alert to Zetoc Alerts!

Did you know that in 2012, Zetoc sent out 2,081,058 Alerts?

Zetoc Alerts offer a convenient way to stay up-to-date in your subject area and can save you time without compromising your knowledge of your subject area. 

There are two main ways that Zetoc Alerts can help you:

• Receive e-mails listing the tables of contents of new issues of key journals you have identified in your subject area
• Receive e-mails when new journal articles are published which satisfy your author or title keyword search criteria

If you would like further advice on using Zetoc Alerts, or any of our other alerting services, please ask at the Help Desk or contact your Information Specialist.