Keeping Your Research Current

Keeping up with new research and publishing in your field is a critical task that can also be quite time consuming. You need to know about new books and articles being published, about conferences, about the activities of organisations, about informal communication taking place within your discipline community and and even about what is being said in the media. You can use some of these methods to keep up with flow of knowledge and information

• New book alerts
• Contents page alerts from your favourite journals
• Database search alerts (journal articles and other documents)
• Citation alerts
• RSS feeds
  
• Discussion lists
• Scholarly societies