RSS Feed Collection, Selection, & Creation for Health Liaison Librarians
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This document provides guidance on collecting, selecting, and creating RSS feeds for health librarians. It discusses existing RSS feeds from sources like journals, grant agencies, and professional organizations. It also provides tips on creating RSS feeds from sources that don't already have one, such as blogs, Twitter, and custom searches. The document recommends criteria for selecting feeds, like quality, authority, currency, and time-sensitivity. It also discusses strategies for collecting feeds, such as limiting the number of feeds per page and organizing them by topic.
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RSS Feed Collection, Selection, & Creation for Health Liaison Librarians
- 1. RSS Feed Collection, Selection, & Creation for Health Liaison Librarians PF Anderson, [email_address]
- 2. Disclaimer This is only one of several possible approaches. It represents my personal thoughts and strategies. There are lots of other people who might have lots better ideas. This was developed as a training tool and way to get started.
- 3. Overview Existing RSS Feeds Types of feeds to expect to find and collect Strategies to search and find Creating RSS feeds where none exist Creating RSS content Selecting your RSS feeds Collecting your RSS feeds (splicing)
- 4. Existing RSS feeds Top journals Journals of general interest Grant agencies News searches Saved search updates Clinical guidelines Professional organizations Systematic reviews (Cochrane) Institutional news / updates Local publications from faculty/clinicians Library hours New books Community photos or images Videos
- 5. Existing RSS feeds: Discovery Google search example http://tinyurl.com/577nas RSS topic portals MedWorm: http://www.medworm.com/ RSS4Medics: http://www.rss4medics.com/directory.html Syndic8: http://www.syndic8.com
- 6. Existing RSS feeds: Other Libraries Ebling Library: Journal Feeds (RSS) By Subject
- 7. Existing RSS feeds: Other Libraries Blogs or articles
- 8. Existing RSS feeds: Other Are there leading bloggers in that topic? Are there leading researchers, and is there a feed or webpage that tracks their news? Is there a news source that already collates news for this topic?
- 9. No feed? No problem! Page2RSS: http://page2rss.com/ Feed43: http://feed43.com/ Feedity: http://www.feedity.com/
- 10. Creating new content to feed your feed Blogs What’s-the-buzz highlighted articles Most cited authors Faculty publications Twitter (or other microblogging tool) Class lists, New books Web searches Custom news search (Google) Keyword searches (FyberSearch) Pubmed searches on hot topics
- 11. Selection criteria The usual: Quality of content Authority / Credibility Currency Additional: Time-dependence (how critical is it?) Accessibility IE. You might include a lesser known journal if it is good and has a readily available feed when the higher quality journal does not have a feed.
- 12. Questions to ask How active is that feed? How active do you want your stream to be? Is the feed uniformly high quality? Does the feed or stream need filtering? FeedRinse: http://www.feedrinse.com/ Do the feeds already feed into each other? Circular feeds can create … problems. Feedback loops can cause your stream to crash.
- 13. Collecting your feeds How many streams fit nicely on a page? Your target population How often are they likely to check? How much would be overwhelming? What are their top priorities? Cluster / organize Group feeds by theme or topic Splice your feeds Yahoo Pipes, FeedRinse More: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6_ways_to_filter_your_rss_feeds.php
- 14. Have fun! More info: http://www.lib.umich.edu/help/rss