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Zetoc
Electronic Table of Contents from the British Library
Suzanne Williams
Zetoc Support Officer
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What is Zetoc?
• The British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)
• Citations for articles and papers (abstracts available for journals which have an agreement between the BL and journal publisher)
• Covers over 20,000 journals
• Around 20 million articles
• Over 5 million conference proceedings
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Coverage
• Wide-ranging– Science and Technology, Medicine, Law,
Engineering, Business, Finance, Arts, Humanities
• Journals selected are most requested research journals
• 1993-present
• Updated daily
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Access
• Free to JISC-sponsored UK further and higher education institutions and research councils
• NHS England, Scotland and Northern Ireland subscribe to Zetoc.
• Zetoc search: – on campus: no login– off campus: login required
• Zetoc alert: – on campus: login required– off campus: login required
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Searching
• Search by keyword(s)
• Search terms can be entered in one field/any number of fields
• Phrase searching
• Truncation by wildcard
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Search Example
Reduction of nitrogen emissions
• keywords– e.g. nitrogen emissions
• “phrase search”– e.g. “nitrogen emissions”
• “phrase search” and a keyword– e.g. “nitrogen emissions” reduction
• “phrase search” and truncation– e.g. “nitrogen emissions” reduc* – (Searches for reduced, reducing, reduction etc.)
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Additional Facilities
• Download Zetoc records and save as text file
• View search history
• Email results of search
• Links to:– Electronic resources– Inter-library loan page– British Library Direct document ordering
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Links to Full Text
• ‘More information…’ (or customised) link from full Zetoc record
• OpenURL Resolver – electronic resources
• Institution must set up own Resolver
• Access to full text depends on rights
• Default link to Copac, Scirus and Google Scholar
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Inter-Library Loan
• A request page provides details of the item.
• Two options can be set up by institutions:
1. link to the ILL service provided by the users’ institution
2. fill in a form and print it out to facilitate making an ILL request
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ILL customised page
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Ordering Articles from British Library
• Integrated document ordering facility
• Order any article online from British Library Direct
• Pay by credit card, including copyright fee
• Various options for delivery
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Z39.50
• Protocol that allows searches across a range of databases
• Search and import records from Zetoc using bibliographic databases, such as EndNote
• Import a text file of saved Zetoc records
• Need correct filter for importing and to configure correctly
• More detailed information can be found at: http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/z3950.html
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Endnote/Reference Manager
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Zetoc Alert
• Email alerting service
• Emails tables of contents of selected journals
• Emails results of pre-defined search criteria on author(s) and keywords
• Email alerts sent: – the day information is loaded into Zetoc
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Creating an Alert
• Specify an email address and can include a list name
• Can include hypertext links to full records
• Add journals
• Add searches
• Alert lists expire after 12 months but can be renewed at any time
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Modify / Delete an Alert
• Change email options
• Renew list
• Rename list
• Transfer list to new Athens username
• Add/remove journals and searches
• Delete
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Transfer an Alert
• Transfer a list to a new username if a username has expired
• Follow the URL in expiry email and log in with your new username
• You may need to navigate to own login screen
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RSS
• Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication
• Provides syndication or summaries of web content
• Links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata
• Supply link to feed ‘reader’ which checks for updated feeds
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RSS feeds
Click on RSS button of journal of your choice
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Any Questions?
• Any further assistance needed, please contact us at:
zetoc@mimas.ac.uk
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