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Keeping Current on STEM Research

Part of being a STEM researcher is keeping up with the research in your field. Strategies include:

  1. Run a search in one of our databases and save it as a search alert to receive weekly updates when new articles are added. This is a feature in all of our databases, as well as Google Scholar. You will need to create an account in each database.
  2. If there is a journal that read or skim regularly:
    • Go to the journal's website and set up email alerts just for that journal.
    • If you want to browse on your mobile device, you can create an account in BrowZine and set up a personal "bookshelf" of the journals you browse, skim the latest article titles (as published or the TOCs), and file articles for later reading. 
      • You must be on campus or on VPN to create your account, and then to read most of the articles you find via the BrowZine app.

STEM News Resources

News sources are another way to stay current, from sites that cover all news like Google News, New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR, to more science magazines and specialized trade publications. Often, the STEM news item focuses on one or more recent studies published in the journal literature or presented at a professional conference. For example, The Guardian's Biochar from human waste could solve global fertiliser shortages, study finds reports on a recently published PNAS article, while this C&EN Global Enterprise feature on cut-and-paste chemistry cites multiple articles published in the last few years.