Inria : Documentary watch on the web (by Isabelle Rey)

DOCUMENTARY WATCH ON THE NET

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Why doing documentary watch on the net?

To be apprised in real time of your research interests – Stay informed

Call information to you instead of looking for it

And …. save time!

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Steps to documentary watch on the net

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1. identify watching themes, specify information types, identify keywords

2. select of sources/silos (do a selection more extended than the identified themes)

3. watch the survey on sources and collect results

4. analyse results

5. and may be… diffuse results?

How to do watch on the net?

Using creation of profiles on publisher websites or databases:

Create boolean equation on a database, saved searches, manage bibliography…

Examples :

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How to do watch on the net?

Using automatic alerts creation by mail or RSS

Receive Table Of Contents from journals, latest publications,…

Example n°1 : TicTOCs - view the latest TOC for journals (16 000)

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Example n°2 : Springer journal

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RSS feed: latest articles from a journal

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1618-2642/?export=rss

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How to do watch on the net?

Using monitoring tools which automatically check web pages for updates and changesMonitor web, password protected pages, forums for new postings, RSS feeds and highlight changes in a page, with filter system to ignore unwanted content, …

Examples :-Softwares (to download): Web Site Watcher (Windows), Specto (Linux)

-Online tools: AlertBox (plugin Firefox), WatchThatPage

See more tools on Fabrica (<Researcher’s information toolkit)

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Monitoring the web

… and to be notified as soon as possible

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References

REPERE 2011. Ressources électroniques pour les étudiants, la recherche, l’Enseignement [en ligne] http://repere.enssib.fr/REPERE2011.pdf

http://www.netvibes.com/ist_inria#English_version

STI Intranet : https://intranet.inrialpes.fr/ follow the link « Scientific life » > « Scientific documentation »

Contact : [email protected]

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