Share and Share Alike:
Learn how to keep up with and discover new literature in your field by using RSS feeds, social bookmarking, & other social networking tools.
13. Types of Information
RSS Can Bring to You
• News Headlines • Web 2.0
–
• News Search Results Blogs
– Blog Search Results
• Organizational News &
– Del.icio.us
Updates
– Flickr Groups
• Clinical Guidelines
– Wikis
• Grant Opportunities – Youtube
• Journal Table of Contents – more …
• Web Searches
20. RSS Feed: Subscribing
• 1. Find a feed.
• 2. Find the RSS link .
• 3. Copy the URL or link.
• 4. Go to Google Reader.
• 5. Click on Add Subscription.
• 6. Paste in the link.
• 7. Organize the new feed into your folders or
subject structure.
21. Subscribing
• Some pages offer
buttons you can just
click on to add a feed.
• This allows you to skip
steps 2-6!
26. Step 5 (Add Feed)
• Click on Add
subscription
• This expands to give
you space to paste
the URL.
27. Step 6 (Paste Link)
• Paste the URL in the box, then click ADD.
28. Step 7 (Sort Feed)
The feed
might look
like this
Manage
subscriptions
allow you to
group feeds
29. Step 7 (Sort Feed)
• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.
• TIP: When you view a folder, you see the newest
items for the topic all integrated together.
31. Other Neat Things to Do
With RSS
• Environmental scanning and market research
• Get weather reports, daily cartoons, sports scores …
• Feed from social bookmarking sites like
http://del.icio.us
• Helvetireader - http://helvetireader.com/
– Firefox greasemonkey userscript
• ticTOCS - http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
• RefWorks – RSS
• TWU Libraries’ journal alerting service page:
http://www.twu.edu/library/alerting-service.asp