Research Guides: Bite-Sized Library Workshop Materials: Current Awareness Tools: Keep Up in Your Field

Introduction

Current Awareness Tools: Keep Up in Your Field

Do you want to keep up-to-date in your area of study – without having to do loads of work? Learn strategies and apps to connect with new research, journal table of contents, and current news on social media.

This workshop was designed by Aaron Tay, Head, Data Services. If you have any questions, please contact Aaron at aarontay@smu.edu.sg.

Workshop Materials

Current Awareness Tools Slides

Additionally, refer to our research guides:

Related Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an important cross-disciplinary abstract & citation database of research literature. Use Scopus to search for article level citation metrics like total cites or FWCI as well as a list of sources indexed in Scopus and their respective Journal level metrics like Citescore, SJR, and SNIP.

SMU Libraries has access to Scopus API that can be used for text and data mining. More info here.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Use this database to identify highly cited articles in a subject area and authors who cite a specific article. Use it to search for articles using keyword and even by institution name.
Web of Science includes Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900), Science Citation Index (from 1965), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 2008), and Book Citation Index (2005-2018)

SMU Libraries has access to Web of Science API Lite. More info here.

Workshop Recordings

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