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What feeds are there and how to find them

Patti Biggs & Anne Welsh

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Introduction

Brief introduction to sources of feeds and tools for locating them

Most of this session will be practical: sharing experience and populating Bloglines.

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Ready Made Feeds

Come from News Organisations – about them and their

products Journals – alternative to eTOCs, also Zetoc

database will send feed of journal contents Mail – like JISCmail Blogs – most blogging sites will supply feed

of new articles and comments

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On the fly feeds

Often of search results from databases PubMed – see handout Other Bibliographic databases eg Web of

Science, Scopus Journal publishers eg ScienceDirect can

deliver subject alert results as feed

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Finding feeds

There is no single comprehensive feed list or single search engine

Need to use variety of sources to locate ready made feeds

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Published lists/Directories

Internet Resources Newsletter – produced by Herriot Watt University. Blogorama section lists interesting blogs and RSS feeds

RSSfeeds.com – searchable directory of feeds. The best I’ve found so far

RSSmicro – search for feeds &/or items in feeds

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Gateways

RSS Compendium: RSS Feeds – lists collections of feeds rather than individual feeds

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Search engines

None of the major search engines eg Google, MSN have ability to search for feeds specifically at present

Feed search sites Feedster- can search items in feeds or for the feeds

Blog search sites Bloglines Search - tab in the Bloglines reader finds

individual entries in blogs that it has indexed Technorati - Real-time search for user-generated media

(including blogs) by tag or keyword. Blogpulse – searches items in blogs for keywords. From

these you can go to the blog profile for more info; this includes other blogs which have cited this blog.