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.

Have you discovered Zetoc yet?

The Zetoc database gives access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC): over 28,000 journals, 45 million article citations and conference papers covering subjects in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance, the arts and humanities, covering the years from 1993 to date and updated daily. The database has recently been re-engineered: corrections have been applied, duplicates deleted and additional Abstracts added. In addition, the service has been re-branded, including improvements to the records display.

Some of the most useful aspects of the Zetoc database are the functionalities for Search Alerts and Journal Table-of-contents RSS feeds, offering a convenient way to stay up-to-date in your subject area.  This is an important way for researchers to save time without compromising knowledge of their subject area.  If you would like further advice on making use of these excellent tools, please ask at the Help Desk or contact your Information Specialist.

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