2009 Rss
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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
Bookmar
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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