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RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP

RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP. All info on Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS http://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/services/rss.html. What is RSS?. Rich Site Summary Each time the website, journal, blog is updated, updates appear in the feed

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RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP

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  1. RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP All info on Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS http://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/services/rss.html

  2. What is RSS? • Rich Site Summary • Each time the website, journal, blog is updated, updates appear in the feed • Receive all info from scholarly journals, blogs & news in one place • do not have to continually look at web site

  3. Types of Feeds • Law Journals – Contents or Full Text • SSRN Author Feeds • Court Cases • Blogs • Tags from Social Bookmarking Sites

  4. How to Find Feeds • See Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS • The url is http://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/services/rss.html#finding

  5. RSS vs. Other Current Awareness • Use in addition to, not instead of others • Others=Lexis & Westlaw Saved Searches, SSRN emails, Washington & Lee CLJC emails, SmartCILP • Feed reader format may be easier to go through fast • Many items in one place – SSRN authors feeds, journal feeds, news, blogs (Lexis and WL have blogs and news, but not all)

  6. RSS vs. Other Current Awareness • Filtering (term searching) is more precise and easier on Westlaw and Lexis, but available with RSS Readers. (Also with Washington &Lee) • RSS feed of journal may be faster than WL/Lexis. Washington & Lee CLJC & SmartCILP are fast. • RSS Readers and many feeds are Free

  7. Thunderbird RSS Reader • Does not give first paragraph of text • Has filtering options • Conveniently with Email

  8. Filtering on Bloglines • Easy way is via Feed Sifter

  9. Futher topics • Send an RSS feed to Email • Creating an RSS feed

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