Staying Current: With Google Reader & RSS
- 1. Staying Current: alerts and feeds and more, oh my! Mimi Smith-DeCoster & Beth Filar-Williams
- 2. A check-in poll • Which of these have you used? A Google Reader or other RSS feed options B Alerts from databases and/or journals C Both of the above D Neither, tell me more!
- 3. RSS Feeds: what’s up with them? • RSS=Really Simple Syndication • Most blogs, news sites, etc. have an RSS feed • You can “subscribe” to that feed through a “reader” like Google Reader • Google reader aggregates all of those feeds into one place—you read that instead of going and checking each place
- 4. Getting set up with RSS • If you’re at UNCG, you already have Google Reader available (more > even more > under social) • Sending RSS to email is also an option
- 5. Video intro to RSS feeds “RSS in Plain English” From 2004(!!) but still a great basic explanation http://youtu.be/0klgLsSxGsU
- 7. Adding things to your • Click orange Subscribe button • 2 options: – 1) Search from Google Reader – 2) From the blog or other source, click the RSS Icon, copy the URL and paste it into that box that the Subscribe button gives you • Read what you want without hunting for it! • Organize: star, keep unread, tags
- 8. Demo of Google Reader
- 9. Staying Current: Alerts • Table of Contents • Keyword • Citation • Other alerts Current Awareness Guide: http://uncg.libguides.com/currentawareness
- 10. Table of Contents Alerts Receive an alert of a new journal’s TOC – Search Journal Finder to see if we subscribe to it at UNCG through a database vendor – Use journalseek.net to find publisher or try your favorite subject database – Use www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk – grab a journal RSS feed …. or login to create a list of favorite journal TOCs RSS feeds DEMO!
- 11. Keyword Alerts Get notified when articles are published that match your subject criteria. • Search in a database, save the search, set an alert • Might have set up am account/log in for that database • Available in most databases DEMO!
- 12. Citation Alerts Select an article & create an alert for every time it is cited in another publication. • Citation alerts are not available in all databases: Web of Science, JSTOR, and Science Direct DEMO!
- 13. Staying alert • Beside RSS in a Google Reader… – Email alerts – Follow using Twitter • Also, Google alerts, blogs, newspaper alerts, new books alerts, and more!
- 14. Visit the Current Awareness Libguide http://uncg.libguides.com/currentawareness
- 15. Q&A
Editor's Notes
- #11: Journal of Library Administration - Alert me – email or rssOne we do not subscribe to: Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance LearningTry in journal seek and drill down to RSSTry in Journaltocs and show the RSS
- #12: Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)“assessing distance education students”