Share and Share Alike: Learn how to keep up with and discover new literature in your field by using RSS feeds, social bookmarking, & other social networking tools.

1. Using RSS to Keep
Up in Research:
The Google Reader

2. Introductions
• Do you use
RSS now?
• In your
Research?

3. Who Here
Reads
Newspapers?

4. News Story Syndication
Story appears here
Story is written

5. Syndication

6. Syndication
Appears in
many papers

7. Reading
Newspapers

8. RSS is like reading
newspapers
Lots of newspapers
s!

9. What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple
Syndication

10. From “Push” to “Pull”

11. RSS in Plain English
http://snipurl.com/1w8wi

12. “My”
Google
Reader

13. Types of Information
RSS Can Bring to You
• News Headlines • Web 2.0
–
• News Search Results Blogs
– Blog Search Results
• Organizational News &
– Del.icio.us
Updates
– Flickr Groups
• Clinical Guidelines
– Wikis
• Grant Opportunities – Youtube
• Journal Table of Contents – more …
• Web Searches

14. Examples of RSS Feeds:
NIH Grants

15. Examples of RSS Feeds:
Blogs

16. Examples of RSS Feeds:
Pubmed Search

17. Examples of RSS Feeds:
Table of Contents

18. Google Reader
• http://www.google.com/reader

19. Google Reader
• Sign in with free
account

20. RSS Feed: Subscribing
• 1. Find a feed.
• 2. Find the RSS link .
• 3. Copy the URL or link.
• 4. Go to Google Reader.
• 5. Click on Add Subscription.
• 6. Paste in the link.
• 7. Organize the new feed into your folders or
subject structure.

21. Subscribing
• Some pages offer
buttons you can just
click on to add a feed.
• This allows you to skip
steps 2-6!

22. Step 1 (Find Webpage)
• Google News Search

23. Step 2 (Find RSS Link)

24. Step 3 (Copy Link)
or
This skips steps 4-6

25. Step 4 (Go to Reader)

26. Step 5 (Add Feed)
• Click on Add
subscription
• This expands to give
you space to paste
the URL.

27. Step 6 (Paste Link)
• Paste the URL in the box, then click ADD.

28. Step 7 (Sort Feed)
The feed
might look
like this
Manage
subscriptions
allow you to
group feeds

29. Step 7 (Sort Feed)
• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.
• TIP: When you view a folder, you see the newest
items for the topic all integrated together.

30. “My”
Google
Reader

31. Other Neat Things to Do
With RSS
• Environmental scanning and market research
• Get weather reports, daily cartoons, sports scores …
• Feed from social bookmarking sites like
http://del.icio.us
• Helvetireader - http://helvetireader.com/
– Firefox greasemonkey userscript
• ticTOCS - http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
• RefWorks – RSS
• TWU Libraries’ journal alerting service page:
http://www.twu.edu/library/alerting-service.asp

32. Helvetireader

33. ticTOCs

34. Thank You!
GREG HARDIN, M.L.S.
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
P.O. BOX 425528 :: DENTON , TEXAS :: 76204
940-898-3712 (w) | 940-898-3808 (fax)
ghardin@mail.twu.edu
http://myweb.twu.edu/~ghardin/RSS.pdf