2. 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)
3. 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 Syndication
OR
Feeds or Web feeds
Latest information added to the site is pushed out to you (Web 2.0
version of email alerts - push technology)
4. 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
5. Use the website search box & ask
Lookout for these icons & words
6. Open IE
go to http://abc.net.au
search for “rss feeds”
click on RSS Feeds
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10. 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
11. 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)
12. “Manage subscriptions”
rename your feed
bin it
add it to a folder
Trends (how do you use Google Reader?)
View your feeds in iGoogle
13.
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)
14. login into your gmail account gmail.google.com
or go directly to http://google.com/reader
click on Reader (top left)
15. 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
16. 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
17. Exercise 5: add an RSS feed
Copy 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
18. Exercise 6: For students & staff, researchers
Subscribe to an ECU library database RSS feed
First, manually remove ECU authentication from
0- 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=1031-8968
http://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&bqu
ery=(ACADEMIC+LIBRARIES)&type=1&site=ehost-live&scope=site
19. 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)
21. 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