NB. Content from most major newspapers is available via our ProQuest Central database.
Free services like JournalTOCs, Google Scholar Alerts and the Researcher app are great for setting up journal alerts.
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The main publishers for subjects taught at BGU are:
| Bloomsbury | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Cambridge University Press | Pearson |
| Critical Publishing | Polity Press |
| Jessica Kingsley | Routledge |
| McGraw-Hill (incorporating Open UP) | SAGE |
| Oxford University Press | Wiley |
Other more subject-specific publishers are listed in each individual subject LibGuide under the Current awareness tab.
Publishers primarily promote their publications via the web, including social media, although some (like Oxford University Press and Jessica Kingsley) also continue to produce printed catalogues. Almost all provide opportunities for you to sign up to receive electronic alerts and updates about new titles.
RSS stands for rich site summary or really simple syndication. It's a format for funnelling constantly updated information, like news, from different web sources into a single point of access, meaning you only have to visit one site instead of several. You may have noticed the RSS icon on webpages before but not realised what it was; it's a small orange box containing what looks like a wi-fi symbol (put 'rss icon' into a Google image search to see what one looks like).
To use RSS you will need to sign up to a feed reader or news aggregator like for example Digg, Feedly or AOL Reader and, when you're ready, go to the sites you are interested in and subscribe to the RSS feeds. You can then view the aggregated feeds via your chosen reader.
Apps like News360 and Flipboard do a similar job but in a slightly different way.
The Document Summary Service is a really useful current awareness tool published by the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, who each month release a series of documents summarising key changes to UK educational policy.
BGU students and staff are permitted to use the summaries for educational purposes but are not permitted to share them with third parties. To view the current month's summaries click here. An access code is required and is available from the Library's Blackboard site under Password Protected Resources. Previous summaries can be viewed via the Archive button.
Amazon's Frequently Bought Together and Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought features, as well as their customer reviews, are are really useful way of identifying new and popular texts. Their Look Inside feature is also handy as it allows you to view a book's contents pages, as well as the first few pages, to assess content and relevancy.
Performing a Libraries Worldwide search in WorldCat can open up a host of possibilities. A huge number of libraries around the world have made their collection data accessible via WorldCat, meaning that that a large proportion of books in print are visible. The Libraries Worldwide search can be particularly effective in identifying new editions of texts (via an item's View All Editions link).