Keeping Current:

•My NCBI

•Ovid AutoAlerts

•InfoPoems

•BMJ Updates

•RSS Feeds

•Connotea

From your library liaison,

Marilyn Rosen

May 2007

My NCBI-Email Table of Contents of Journals

Science Direct – Email Table of

Contents

HighWire Press – Email Table of

Contents

Daily POEMS

http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.asp

BMJ UpDates

What is RSS?

• Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary• Content can be delivered without cluttering your

email inbox• Avoid conventional searching or browsing

websites• Written in internet coding language XML

(Extensible Markup Language)• Makes anything on the web “subscribable”.• Need an RSS reader to read an RSS feed

What is an RSS Reader?

Small software program that collects and displays RSS feeds.

We recommend:

• Onfolio

• Google Reader

• Refworks

Recommended RSS Readers

• Onfolio (www.onfolio.com)– Free– Browser based– Must be downloaded & installed in Internet

Explorer– Feeds delivered to single computer– Many bells & whistles (reading lists, folders,

etc.)

Recommended RSS Readers

• Google Reader (www.google.com/reader)– Free– No installation required– Not browser-based; must login to web site to

view feeds– Web-based; can access your account from

any computer

Create RSS Feed for Journal through Pubmed

Recommended RSS Readers

– RefWorks– Useful if you use RefWorks already– Web-based– You can import data into your RefWorks

database

What is Social Bookmarking?

– Web based bookmarks, instead of computer-based

– Can help you manage and organize information

– Easy to share with others

Recommended Tool - Connotea

– Geared towards the scientist– Created and operated by Nature Publishing– Easy to share your library with others

I hope you all know how to reach me by now:

Marilyn_Rosen@urmc.rochester.edu

275-6940

Thank you!