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SOIL SCI 728 Graduate Seminar (Fall 2024; Spring 2025) : Keeping Current

Introduction

How do you keep current with the research literature of your discipline, a topic of interest, or the work of your colleagues and professional community? Now, more than ever, we have access to more information than we could ever possibly read and process. We recognize, too, that sometimes "keeping up" can feel more like "catching up", but it is never too late to get started with some tools and strategies to streamline and to manage this process.

Do you want to….

  • Browse the current issue of your favorite journals or magazines?
  • Receive email alerts and links to newly-published research on a topic of interest?
  • Be notified when your published article is cited by other researchers?
  • Be notified of funding opportunities?

Research Topic Alerts

Many of the library-licensed databases and Google Scholar enable you to create a personal login to access the product's value-added features.

Once you have generated a productive search, you can create an alert that will automatically run that search at an interval of your choosing and return new results by email. 

The advantage to a topic alert is that it will pull research literature from multiple journals when new content matching your search criteria is indexed by the database.

Citation Alerts

Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar enable you to create citation alerts that notify you when a specific article has been cited by a new article. Each product will require that you create an account or, as with Google Scholar, a profile.

  • Instructions to set up a author or document citation alert using Scopus. 
  • Instructions to set up a citation alert in Web of Science. 
  • Instructions to save a citation alert, "My Citations" using Google Scholar.

Browse Soil Science Journals

BrowZine is available for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. BrowZine lets you browse, read, save, and monitor scholarly journals in your subject areas on your mobile device or desktop/laptop.

BrowZine screenshot, Soil Science journals

If browsing from the Web version, select "Earth and Environmental Sciences" then "Geosciences" in order to select "Sedimentology and Soil Science".

Funding Opportunities, Grants

Pivot-RP
Platform for researchers and administrators to identify new funding opportunities and potential collaborators. Access note: While anyone on campus can use this resource, only faculty, staff, and students with a valid wisc.edu address can save data from it.

  • Create an account to track and share opportunities, save searches, and receive alerts.

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