Monitoring publications and keeping up to date in Genetics

Lab Meeting – 7/3/13Updated with comments from the session

Why do you need to monitor publications and keep up to date?

•Literature review for thesis•Writing a paper•Conference presentation•Current awareness•Hot topics•Collaboration•Grant opportunities•New advances in methodology•Career progression•Funding body / UoM progress / management reports

•Databases e.g OVID Medline, Embase, Web of Science, • Save search strategies as either email or RSS alerts• PubMed, HubMed*, PubGet*

• Usually need to register to save searches and set up alerts e.g. OVID My Account, PubMed – My NCBI

*e.g.s of derivatives of PubMed which have an improved search interface and retrieval

•Journals• Individual titles e.g. Nature, Am J Human Genetics• Table of Contents services e.g. ZETOC, JournalTOCs,

• Can search for specific journals or words / phrases

RSS feeds in browser e.g. Internet Explorer

Feed Aggregator e.g. Google Reader

Update: Google Reader is being withdrawn from service 1/7/13; Other suggestions are: Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) ; Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/en)For tablets: Zite () (http://www.zite.com/ ) ; Pulse (https://www.pulse.me/ )

(I haven’t used any of these so please let me know if you have, or any other tools that you’ve found useful)

Blogs, Twitter, Google Alertse.g.sBlogshttp://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.co.uk/ - Getting Genetics done

http://sciencesblog.org/biology/genetic-link-for-rheumatoid-arthritis/

http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/tag/genetic-therapy/

http://www.broadinstitute.org/blog/new-wind-sails-rheumatoid-arthritis-research

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/guardianscience - News, comment, all that stuff from the Guardian's science, health and environment team

https://twitter.com/DNABloggers - A place for Genetics and DNA Bloggers

https://twitter.com/CalRheum

https://twitter.com/NatureNews

https://twitter.com/NEJM

https://twitter.com/JAMA_current

Google AlertsUseful for very broad searches

Impact

•Journal Impact Factors – Journal Citation Reports (ISI Web of Knowledge)•Article level metrics – e.g. citation counts

•Author level metric – e.g. H-Index A 27 B 30 C 91 D 13 E 9 F 9

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Referencing Software

•Reference Manager•EndNote•EndNote Web

•Mendeley – groups, collaborations, private and public groups•Zotero