RSS FEEDSMaureen Couacaud

What we will covered What is RSS?

What is it used for?

Exercises- Subscribe to an RSS feed in IE or Firefox

- Subscribe to Google Scholar & subscribe to multiple RSS feeds

Video (1.6min)

What is RSS? Talking about information drawn from the internet/web

Blogs & websites (feedscan include pictures & links to audio or video)

LIBRARY Catalogue

LIBRARY Databases~! (with a little tweeking!)

Really Simple SyndicationORFeeds or Web feeds

Latest information added to the site is pushed out to you (Web 2.0 version of email alerts - push technology)

the website has to offer RSS (or use http://page2rss.com )

you have to subscribe to it

its free

stored in in someone else's web space

More …

Does your favourite website offer RSS?

Use the website search box & ask

Lookout for these icons & words

Exercise 1: Subscribe to an RSS feed & have it delivered to your IE window

Open IE go to http://abc.net.au search for “rss feeds”  click on RSS Feeds

Browse & pick an RSS feed from the list on the left

Copy & past the RSS URL to the address bar

Exercise 2: Subscribe to an RSS feed & have it delivered to your Firefox window

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Google Reader

Why use Google Reader? Receives feeds Consolidates feeds Organises feeds Shares feeds Grabs web pages

Demo Video (13.3min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

Features of Google Reader? Useful when you subscribe to many RSS feeds

Easy to use

View subscriptions (ALL or singly)

Personalise feeds Star Share (can add a note) Email Notes (can also grab info from a webpage)

Organising your feeds “Manage subscriptions”

rename your feed bin it add it to a folder

Trends (how do you use Google Reader?)

View your feeds in iGoogle

Google Reader

Exercises: Use Google Reader to browse for feeds

Site offers RSS link to Google Reader

Copy an RSS URL into Google Reader

Copy Library database RSS URL into Google Reader (after removing WAM authentication)

Google Reader login into your gmail account

gmail.google.com or go directly to http://google.com/reader

click on Reader (top left)

Google Reader

Exercise 3: add an RSS feed Use Google Reader to browse for feeds

Go to Google Reader

Click on (top left)

Browse through their lists of feeds, select one then click on ADD

Google Reader

Exercise 4: add an RSS feed from ???RSS site offers link to Google Reader

Try: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/http://dornob.com http://zenhabits.net/

click on the RSS or Subscribe to this feed button

Select Google Reader & press enter

Google Reader

Exercise 5: add an RSS feedCopy an RSS URL into Google Reader

try: http://abc.net.au (search for a feed) http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/

click on & paste the URL into the text box & click on ADD

Google Reader Exercise 6: For students & staff, researchers Subscribe to an ECU library database RSS feed

First, manually remove ECU authentication from0- AND .library.ecu.edu.au:80/ (delete up to the /)

Copy RSS URL & paste into Google Reader http://0-search.informit.com.au

.library.ecu.edu.au/rss;res=IELBUS;issn=1031-8968http://search.informit.com.au/rss;res=IELBUS;issn=1031-8968

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.ecu.edu.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&bquery=(ACADEMIC+LIBRARIES)&type=1&site=ehost-live&scope=site

RSS services in Library databases

Topic RSS feeds Academic OneFile (Gale) shows results list+FT , doesn’t prompt for authentication

ProQuest shows results list, prompts for authentication for FT

EBSCO shows results list, prompts for authentication for FT

WilsonWeb shows results list+FT , doesn’t prompt for authentication

ISI (individual database – not WOK) shows results list, does not link to FT (doesn’t prompt for authentication)

Journal contents pages feeds Informit shows results list, does not link to FT (doesn’t prompt for authentication)

Emerald shows results list, does not link to FT (doesn’t prompt for authentication)

Database RSS demos Proquest

Sport Discus (EBSCO)

What we have covered What is RSS?

What is it used for?

Exercises- Subscribe to an RSS feed in IE or Firefox

- Subscribe to Google Scholar & subscribe to multiple RSS feeds