there are lots of gaps in information organization-related research, with topics just waiting to be tackled. how do i know? i read like crazy. here’s how i stay current with what is being published.
i subscribe to several blogs through my bloglines account:
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog gathers up publications on digital scholarship
- Open Access News points to and comments on publications in the realm of open access
- Informed Librarian Online is a table of contents service in the field of librarianship. I get their “picks of the month” in my RSS feed
i also put a recurring (every two weeks) appointment (30 min.) with myself in my calendar to check out what’s been published in the last two weeks, indexed at the Web of Knowledge’s Current Contents Connect. i choose the Social & Behavioral Sciences edition, and then choose the Library & Information Sciences discipline. if i have time left over i check out other disciplines. there’s often good, relevant stuff that informs me there too.
so now you know my secrets to staying current. how do you stay on top of the literature? would you suggest i add something to my list?
I wanted to thank you for turning me onto Informed Librarian. I checked it out and really liked it, and since I’m a new MSLIS student, I signed up at the student rate so I can get the RSS feed. This looks like it will be a great resource (in all my spare time from schoolwork – haha).
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