Engage with Industry
News and curation tools
In a media-saturated age it is easy to be consumed by the most popular stories and information promoted by your closest contacts. To break out of your bubble and find out what is going on in your industry, try out some news curation tools.
RSS Feeds and Social Media Curation
RSS enables you to subscribe to a number of different sites and get those sites to display new information in one place, so that you don't have to visit each site separately. You could set up feeds from the blogs of industry experts, trade magazines and news outlets. All the latest stories and information will be published for you in one place. Many apps bring together website content and social medial content in one place.
Popular feeds for websites and social media include feedly.com and inoreader.com.
To curate content and stories shared via social media, try flipboard.com or paper.li
Alternatively, search your app store for RSS or curation tools.
Explore Trade Magazines at Solent
Professionals often subscribe to trade magazines to keep up to date with new industry trends. At Solent you have free access to the latest editions of a number of trade magazines.
Trade magazines in Mountbatten Library include:
Psychologist
Tradewinds
SFX
Screen International
Future Music
Marketing Weekly
This is just a selection of available magazines. Talk to a librarian to find out about other available material.
Useful trade-specific magazines and journals may be available online. Visit your subject guide to see how to access collections related to your subject.