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Research bytes and the Open Access Forum

Research Bytes Research Bytes are part of the Research Festival and are 30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researcher. Monday 31 st March - Make your research open access the Green way Why and how to make your research open access for free. Quickly and easily increase your readership by broadcasting your research with Leicester Research Archive (LRA) Book your place to attend in person or watch the recording Tuesday 1 st April, 1pm - Publishing in an open access journal This session explains how to publish your paper in an open access journal and the sources of funding available through the University Library. Book your place to attend in person or watch the recording Wednesday 2 nd April, 1pm - Journal Impact Factors – use and misuse The journal impact factor is an iconic symbol.   But what is it, how is it constructed, and how should it be interpreted? Book your place to attend in person or watch the recording 

Search alerts for arts, humanities and social science databases

Following on from our 'Making research information come to you' session we're rounding up some more guides and videos on how to set-up search alerts from various resources. You can find guides for Web of Science (Arts & Humanities/Social Sciences Citation Index) and Scopus in our previous blogpost . Business Source Premier/Historical Abstracts/Art Full Text Written instructions for creating RSS search and journal alerts Written instructions for creating an email alert   Sociological Abstracts/ASSIA/ERIC/British Education Index/MLA Written instructions for creating search alerts Written instructions for setting up RSS feeds JSTOR Written instructions on setting up search alerts in MyJSTOR

Journal Table of Content Alerts

Some journal homepages will have an option to set-up an email alert or have a RSS feed as a way of letting you know when a new issue is published, and what's listed in the table of contents. However, not all journal offer this, so there are a couple of services that specialise in providing table of content alerts and RSS feeds: Zetoc To use the alerting service form Zetoc you will need to login using the institutional login procedure. Creating Zetoc Alerts: Zetoc RSS Feeds: JournalTOCS Setting up alerts: More help on using JournalsTOCS .