Keeping Current: Subscribing to Emerging Research & Evidence Online
Do you find it challenging to keep up to date with the latest info in your field? Reduce information overload and automate the task of keeping current with tools such as RSS feeds, search alerts and journal tables of contents. These tools can bring newly released or published info together in one place, making it easier to stay current.
Learning outcomes:
- Differentiate between RSS feeds, search alerts and journal tables of contents
- Set up an RSS feed in Feedly
- Create a search alert in a database
- Subscribe to journals in JournalTOCs
- Date:
- Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Atlantic Time (change)
- Zone:
- All Zones
- Categories:
- 30 Minutes or Less Library Services
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
*** BEFORE YOU REGISTER ***
To participate in an online session, you will need to meet the following requirements:
- You must have access to a computer with Skype for Business installed. If you do not have the software, you will be required to install a web app plugin that will allow you to attend as a guest
- You must have an audio output device connected (headphones or speakers) to be able to hear the instructor
- You must have an audio input device (webcam or microphone) connected whether you wish to participate verbally or not. If you do not wish to speak, you may type in the chat window
- Experience using chat
- Experience copying/pasting text and URLs
If you do not meet the above requirements, please consider requesting a one-on-one consult.
Prior to the start of an online session, test your sound settings to ensure you are ready. See Testing Skype Sound Settings* for step-by-step instructions.
To learn more about Skype for Business, see https://intra.nshealth.ca/UCS/BPS/SitePages/SkypeforBusiness.aspx*
*Internal link, you must be on the Nova Scotia Health network and use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Edge to access
