Heads Up! Are you tired of surfing the web and getting lost in a sea of useless information? If you want signals on how to sign up for direct notification (free e-mail alerts) of relevant transportation articles and publications, this LibGuide will light the way. Your favorite zookeepers Bobbi and Cara want to take you from drowsy to wide awake in minutes.
How about a “triple-caff”? That will wake you up.
Featured Guide: Publication Alerts for Transportation
This LibGuide comes to you from the attentive and observant MnDOT Library staff:
The platform for this guide is provided through the National Transportation Library
To keep you on your toes, there are only four tabs. The first tab is a bright way to start off your day to keep you perky while scanning alerts from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) E-Newsletter and Transportation Research Record. Don’t forget to sign up! Next to the TRB box are links where you can sign up for updates from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) to deliver their news right to your inbox.
Owl sign up for all of these alerts!
The second and third tabs are for subscription databases that MNDOT Library users should be aware of - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and EBSCO. Contact your own lucid librarian to see if these are also offered at your institution. Even if they’re not, your institution may offer other databases that can alert you to the articles you need to read. ASCE members can also sign up for ASCE alerts.
Now I’m really a snake . . . I mean really awake!
The best things in life are free, and the fourth tab is all about setting up alerts to free journals and publications. Open your eyes to the wide world of transportation knowledge that can be yours through such gems as InTransit (newsletter for Minnesota Public Transit), ACCESS Magazine (research at the University of California Transportation Center), and Data DIGest (a weekly summary of economic news from the Associated General Contractors of America). Hey - we didn't even know there was a free University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Journal of Transport and Land Use. Can't wait to sign up!
And after you’ve signed up for all these alerts, take a well-deserved rest.
Great alert, time to be inert.
About the Authors:
Cara Marcus is the resource center manager of National RTAP
Bobbi deMontigny is the librarian at the Montana Department of Transportation
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