Essential Tools for Graduate Students

Most bibliographic databases have alert services in which you can save search strings online. Whenever the database is updated, any new content that matches your search criteria will be emailed to you.  I call this doing research in your sleep.

There are two kinds of alert:

Saved searches--either very basic or very detailed.

Current Awareness Alerts: Receive the table of contents when new issues of journals appear. Browzine is an easy-to-use tool for current awareness of your favorite journals.

With the BrowZine app you can add your favorite journals to your personal bookshelf and save articles to read later. Sync with Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox or other services to help keep all of your reading together in one place. With BrowZine, you can:

●     Browse and read journals by subject, review tables of contents, download articles

●     Create your own bookshelf and be notified when new articles are published

●     Save articles for off-line reading or export to services such as Dropbox, Papers, or Zotero