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Graduate Research Portal: Staying Current

Library-based support for University of Lethbridge graduate students

Keeping Current on New Research

Given the volume of new publications, keeping up with the most current research in your field can be intimating and challenging. However, as a graduate student, the research of others forms the basis for your own research, so keeping abreast of new developments in your areas of research interests is an important part of preparing yourself to eventually publish your own research and contribute new knowledge to your field. The purpose of this section of the guide is to suggest potentially useful resources designed to make keeping current easier.  Among other things, it looks at how to set up table of contents (TOC) alerts, citation alerts, and saved searches.

Useful Networks

Just as Facebook and Twitter can help you keep up with the latest events in your friends and family's lives, these scholarly networking sites allow you to keep track of what other researchers are publishing and working on (as well as permit others to see what you are researching and working on).

Tools for Staying Current

This section of the guide contains information about tools you can use to stay current on the most recent articles and content published in the area(s) or discipline(s) you are interested in; use the drop-down menu above or click the links below:

Table of Content (ToC) Alerts

Citation Alerts

Saved Search Alerts

See also the Quick Tips tutorials on Alerts in this guide.

Library Resources

The University of Lethbridge Library has a variety of titles on develop and honing effective research skills that touch on ways to keep tabs on and evaluate what's new in your research field: