Drawing up bibliographic watch specifications

You're wondering whether it's worthwhile drawing up bibliography specifications: For yourself? For alerts set up for others?

When you set up a bibliographic watch, you think that, when the time comes, you'll remember what it's for, when it was set up, for whom, for what... But that's not always the case.

Drawing up specifications allows you to :

• to make a catalog,

  • bibliographic alerts,

  • means of reception,

  • of the multiple databases used,

  • of the previous day's goals,

• and ensure traceability and validation of research strategies.

The concrete examples given in this fact sheet will help you to understand the importance of bibliographic specifications in your day-to-day bibliographic monitoring practice.