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Managing Online Resources: “RSS” is the key

Learn how to set up and use an online aggregator like Google Reader to subscribe to and manage your favorite online content sources through RSS feeds.

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Managing Online Resources: “RSS” is the key

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  1. Managing Online Resources: “RSS” is the key • Real Simple Syndication? • Rich Site Summary? • Ready for Some Stories? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU From “Common Craft”

  2. Find stuff  Subscribe  Enjoy Find Good Content:News, scholarly databases, reviews, essays, new books, blogs, latest research… Content updates are automatically sent to your Aggregator (e.g. “Google Reader”) Subscribe to interesting and useful content

  3. Two Things To Learn to Gain Control • Set up a free account with an online “aggregator” to harvest information you want • Learn how to “subscribe” to your favorite info sources

  4. 1. Set up a “Google Reader” account • Go to reader.google.com • Click “Create an Account” • Fill in the account form • Be sure to give an accessible e-mail address • Check your e-mail for confirmation message • Once your account is verified, you will be returned to ‘reader.google.com’

  5. Once your account is verified, return to Google Reader

  6. 2. Add Subscriptions to Google Reader • Avoid Google’s pre-bundled “subscriptions” • Scholars will want to identify good subscriptions for themselves, through peer-reviewed sources, or from their Circle of the Wise! • How? Read on!

  7. Adding subscriptions via Customized News Feeds • Go to a news site, (News.google.com, news.yahoo.com…) • Create a search that yields results that are useful to you • Sample search: “University of Massachusetts Boston” • “Subscribe” to the results by clicking on the RSS link • New items for that search will appear in your aggregator after you subscribe

  8. Clicking on “RSS” brings you here Click on “Add to Google Reader” to complete the subscription

  9. Subscription Success!Google Reader displays your news feed in List View Current results for “University of Massachusetts Boston” search in List View

  10. Here, Google Reader displays the same news feed in Expanded View Same resultsin Expanded View

  11. Another feed source: Scholarly Journals • Try Academic Search Premiere at www.lib.umb.edu/databases/ • Form a search that returns useful results

  12. Academic Search Premiere Results • “Subscribe” to the results via the “RSS” button • New items for this search will appear in your aggregator once you’ve subscribed

  13. Every RSS subscription has its own peculiarities… Click the RSS link for the next step in subscribing to the Academic Search Premiere results set

  14. Academic Search Premiere – next step: Clicking on “Add to Google Reader” will finish the process of subscribing to the ASP search results

  15. Subscription Success!ASP Results in Google Reader: Expanded View Current results for “renaissance + ferrara + madrigal, fulltext, academic journals only” in Expanded View These results will be updated automatically if anything new is added to Academic Search Premiere that matches the search terms

  16. Feeds can be renamed Unfriendly Feed Name? Click on “Feed Settings” and choose “Rename subscription”

  17. Friendlier Title

  18. Finding Trustworthy Feeds Use your usual, tried-and-true strategies for locating trustworthy content. Let those sources lead you to others. Keep your eye out for “RSS” symbols and buttons Once you’ve found a useful, trustworthy source, SUBSCRIBE to stay up-to-date

  19. Whenever you locate a trusted source – look around for the RSS subscription symbol in one of its many guises: Then SUBSCRIBE!

  20. AH, Had I BUT Google Reader..! “He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth anxiety.” Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, 1605

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