Example 11: Workbook (pp. 23, 34)
5. Current awareness services Current awareness services are designed to keep you up to date with what is being published in your area of study. Some of these services are integrated into databases and so offer automated searching on a specified subject, forwarded to you as an email or set up as an RSS feed* within the MWE. Other current awareness services provide contents pages of the latest issue of your favourite journals. These services can prove vital in maintaining an awareness of developments in the study of architecture.
Return to the Internet Explorer window displaying Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.
Click on Search History in the top right corner. Select Save OR Alert underneath one of the searches you did in exercise 2.
Click on New Users Register Here and create a personal account. When presented with the Save Your Search Alert page, change the Delivery Method option to RSS and click on Save.
Click on the orange RSS
button. This button is used throughout the Internet to indicate an RSS feed is available.
Copy the URL, or web address, from the address box in Internet Explorer. Return to the Internet Explorer window displaying the MWE Portal Information Resources tab. Click on the small triangle on the right of the My RSS portlet and select Personalise.
Paste the URL from your RSS feed into the empty URL box underneath URL list of additional RSS feeds to display: and click on +Add followed by Save.
Now whenever you look at the MWE Portal Information Resources tab any new results matching your Avery search will be displayed underneath the CSA Illumina Alert heading.
You may prefer to receive new Avery content on subjects that interest you via email, in which case select Email as your Delivery Method.
Return to the Internet Explorer window displaying Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and leave Avery by clicking on Logout. Look out for the orange RSS feeds.
button on a website to identify those with
* RSS feeds provide regular updates of newly added content to web sites including online journals, news sites and blogs.
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