Keeping up with the literature

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With millions of new articles published every year, keeping current with the literature presents an enormous challenge.

The resources listed on this page include tools to help you not only keep current with the literature, but also assist you in monitoring and managing information.

Alert Services

Alert services help keep you up-to-date with the literature by providing regular email "alerts." Two types of alerts are Table of Contents (TOC) alerts that send you the TOCs of specific journals as soon as they are published. Topical alerts allow you to set up searches on specific topics. The alert service performs the search at regular intervals and sends you the results. If NCSU Libraries has a subscription to the online version of a journal, the alerts will provide links to the full-text articles.

Many databases and publishers provide alert services. Ask A Librarian if you need help setting one up.

Managing References

NCSU Libraries supports the use of RefWorks and EndNote software for bibliographic management. With these tools, you can download search results directly into your own database of citations. The database can include information such as title, author, publication information, keywords, and abstracts. This allows you to build your own collection of references and assemble these references into a correctly formatted bibliography for papers and articles.