BEING UP-TO-DATE
Carlos A. Almenara, PhD
Online and Offline Resources In Psychological Assessment
PSY494P122 (May 14th, 2014)
Being up-to-date
 SOME REASONS:
 New research emerge everyday.
 Shortening the lag between: information release
and knowledge acquisition.
 Build expertise.
 Challenges of competitiveness.
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NEW
ARTICLES
(E-mail Alerts)
New Articles (Email Alerts)
 Sign Up for E-mail Alerts in a Journal Home Page
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http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/psp/index.aspx
New Articles (Email Alerts)
 Sign Up for E-mail Alerts in a Journal Home Page
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http://link.springer.com/journal/11199
New Articles (Email Alerts)
 Sign Up for E-mail Alerts in a Website/Database
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http://plus.mcmaster.ca/EvidenceUpdates/
New Articles (Email Alerts)
 EXERCISE:
 Select a journal and sign-up for its email alerts.
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(MATCHING)
SEARCH
RESULTS
(E-mail Alerts)
ScienceDirect
 Create an alert of results matching your search query
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http://www.sciencedirect.com
Scopus
 Create an alert of results matching your search query
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http://www.scopus.com/
Google Scholar
 Create an alert of results matching your search query
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http://scholar.google.com
New Articles Matching your Search Query
(Email Alerts)
 EXERCISE:
 Create 2 email alerts:
 1 for a search on Scopus
 1 for a search on Google Scholar
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CITATIONS
(E-mail Alerts)
ISI Web of Knowledge
 Citation Alert
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http://isiknowledge.com/
Google Scholar – Step 1
 Citation alert
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http://scholar.google.com
Google Scholar – Step 2
 Citation alert
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http://scholar.google.com
Google Scholar
 Citation alert
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http://scholar.google.com
New Citations (Email Alerts)
 EXERCISE:
 Create 2 citation alerts:
 1 from ISI Web of Knowledge
 1 from Google Scholar
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RSS
RSS
 RSS (Rich Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple
Syndication)
 RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data
automatically.
 If you subscribe to a website RSS, then you don't need to
manually check for new information.
 Instead, your RSS reader or web browser will provides you
any updates.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
RSS
(Web Browser)
RSS
 EXAMPLE: BBC News – Using FIREFOX
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494
RSS
(RSS Feed)
RSS
 RSS Reader: Microsoft Outlook
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RSS
 RSS Reader: NetVibes
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http://www.netvibes.com/
RSS
 RSS Reader: Feedly
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http://www.feedly.com/
RSS
 RSS Reader: NewsBlur
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http://www.newsblur.com/
RSS
 RSS Reader: FeedReader
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http://www.feedreader.com/
RSS
(News)
RSS
 EXAMPLE: Psychology Today
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.rss
RSS
 EXAMPLE: Nature Publishing Group
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http://www.nature.com/webfeeds/index.html
RSS
 EXAMPLE: The Economist – Social & Behavioral
Science
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http://www.economist.com/topics/social-and-behavioral-science
RSS
 EXAMPLE: BBC News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494
RSS
 And many more:
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RSS
 EXAMPLE: PsycINFO search
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http://search.ebscohost.com/
RSS
 EXAMPLE: PubMed search
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
RSS
 EXAMPLE: ScienceDirect search
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http://www.sciencedirect.com
RSS
 EXAMPLE: Scopus search
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http://www.scopus.com
RSS Feed
 EXERCISE:
 Sign up in a RSS feed reader (e.g. netvibes) and
subscribe to at least 2 RSS
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LISTSERV
LISTSERV
 The term refers to electronic mailing list
software.
 People subscribed to these mailing lists may
participate in the discussion of different
topics.
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See: Willis, J., Inman, D., & Valenti, R. (2010). Sources of knowledge and perspectives. In J. Willis, D. Inman, & R. Valenti (Eds.),
Completing a professional practice dissertation: A guide for doctoral students and faculty (pp. 123–175). Charlotte, NC: IAP.
LISTSERV: Search lists with CataList
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http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
TRACKING
AUTHORS’
PUBLICATIONS
Authors’ new publications
 Author’s academic web page
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Authors’ new publications
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https://www.researchgate.net/
Authors’ new publications
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http://www.researcherid.com/ViewProfileSearch.action
Authors’ new publications
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https://www.academia.edu/
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