Alerts: Keeping Current in Your Discipline: Using Blogs
Alerts refer to notifications when something of interest to you has been published in a new journal issue or added to a database or website. Covers basic techniques for setting up alerts (a.k.a. current awareness services).
What are Blogs?
According to Wikipedia, a blog is "a contraction of the term 'web log' and is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order."
There are many different types of blogs, including: personal blogs, corporate/organization blogs, or subject blogs.
Blogs can be monitored individually, using web browser bookmarks, or aggregated via an RSS news reader service.
Useful Blog Sites
- Academic Blogs Portal
A quick way to identify blogs on specific academic research areas. - Technorati.com
This is a search engine for blogs. It allows users to search by keyword, the URL of any web page or the tag assigned by the blogger.
Using Blogs in Plain English
