Sunday, 5 May 2013

Saved Search Alert from a database - Ebsco's LISTA


     Saved Search Alert - Open a BPC database (for example Ebsco's LISTA)
  • Register (or sign in) for a personalised account (this sits within the BPC subscription)
  • Run a search on a topic of interest.
  • Refine your search (for example by country, author, publication or subject)
  • Create an alert
I need to achieve the above, which I've done using the word "blogs". 

The initial search gave 4236 results.  I refined the search by publication date, moving from a start date of 2001 to 2010.  This reduced the results to 1396 results.

By amazing coincidence the 2nd 'hit' that appeared was to the article that had attracted me to follow the Journal of Web Librarianship - "The Structure of the Biblioblogosphere: An Examination of the Linking Practices of Institutional and Personal Library Blogs" using Zetoc!

The alert appears as a link in this blog in the post below.

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