RSSFOR SCHOLARS

Shana Gass, Carissa TomlinsonReference Librarians

Introductions

Who are we? Reference and Instruction Librarians

Shana Gass Carissa Tomlinson

Agenda

Focus on RSS What is RSS?

RSS Readers Hands on Practice

RSS for scholarship Scholarly journal/article feeds Websites/ Blogs Organizing research Sharing

What the heck is RSS?

What does RSS have to do with Scholarship? RSS helps keep you current!

Latest scholarly articles on particular topics Journal table of contents as soon as they

are available Follow other scholars’ blogs, websites or

RSS feeds Share article citations, web pages,

comments Feed RSS into Blackboard for students

RSS Readers

RSS Reader/ Feed Reader/ Aggregator = technology to read and organize your various RSS feeds

3 Types of RSS Readers Desktop Reader – Lives on your hard drive

Only available on one computer Can sometimes be read off-line BlogBridge

Plug-in Reader – Lives on your browser or email client Generally only available on one computer Does not require visiting an additional software or

website Outlook, Firefox

Web based Reader – Lives on the web Requires you to visit a website Available on any computer Bloglines, Google Reader

Google Reader

Go to: www.google.com/reader