URLs from the postconference workshop I did for the Medical Library Association on May 24, 2006. The PDF version of the Powerpoint slides is available at http://www.mls.lib.il.us/cats.cfm?catid=205&mID=1075.

Intro Sites

University of British Columbia's Google Scholar Blog - http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/
BBC News' "What Is RSS?" page - http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml
BBC News RSS Feeds page - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/rss/3223484.stm
Boston Globe - http://boston.com/
AllRSS' List of Aggregators - http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html
Medical News Feeds - http://medlogs.com/

Big Name Sites You Can Subscribe to

Associated Press - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/RSS_FEEDS?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME
BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/search/rssfeed.htm
Chicago Sun-Times - http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/82/2282.xml
The Chronicle - http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm
CNN - http://edition.cnn.com/services/rss/
Daily Newspapers offering RSS (U.S. only) - http://www.sidewalktheory.com/newspapers/
Economist - http://economist.com/rss/
Edgar Index - http://www.edgarindex.com/blog/
ESPN - http://dwlt.net/archives/2003/12/03/ESPNRSSFeeds
Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/fdc/rss.shtml
Gallup Polls - http://www.gallup.com/poll/rss/
Law.com - http://www.law.com/service/rss_faq.shtml
Medscape - http://my.webmd.com/webmd_today/rss/
Nature Publishing - http://npg.nature.com/npg/servlet/Content?data=xml/02_newsfeed.xml&style=xml/02_newsfeed.xsl
New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/
Senator Joseph Biden’s Press Releases - http://biden.senate.gov/pressapp/releasesOpen.cfm
SOPHOS Virus and Hoax Info - http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/infofeed/rss_index.html
Time - http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,635219,00.html
U.S. Government RSS Library - http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml
The Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/public/page/0,,0_0813,00.html?mod=fpp_rss (headlines only, full text is still fee-based)
Washington Post
- 1500 different feeds? - http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001953.shtml
- The Votes Database - http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/rss/
Yahoo News - http://news.yahoo.com/rss/

Find more listed at http://allrss.com/rssfeeds.html 

Fun Sites You Can Subscribe to

Amazon Genres - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html/002-5907826-1767203
Apple iTunes Charts - http://www.apple.com/rss/
Blog of Death - http://www.blogofdeath.com/index.rdf 
Bootleg RSS: TV Edition - http://ktyp.com/rss/tv/table.html
Comic Alert - http://www.comicalert.com/
Dilbert - http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf
Farmer’s Almanac Moon Phases - http://www.almanac.com/rss/moon.php
Free After Rebate - http://www.freeafterrebate.info/freeafterrebate.rss
Harper’s Index - http://harpers.org/xml/feed/rss.xml
Late Night TV Page - http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html
Mars Rover Blog - http://www.markcarey.com/mars/index.rdf
MLB Box Scores - http://casdra.com/boxscores/
NetFlix - http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds?lnkctr=mfRSS
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - http://www.interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Animal Farm
- The Prince
- ulysses
Package Tracking - http://track2rss.sourceforge.net/
Purina Advice/Stories - http://www.purina.com/rss/index.asp
SmarterTravel Deals - http://www.smartertravel.com/xml/rss/
Snopes - http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp
Weather Toolbot (7-day forecast) - http://weather.toolbot.com/

Some Medical Sites/Serials You Can Subscribe to

BMJ Journals Online – http://www.bmjjournals.com/
BioMed Central Journals – http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/
DailyMed Drug Label Updates – http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/rss.cfm
HealthCentral.com – http://www.healthcentral.com/newsdetail/408/more_index_1_1_1.html
IngentaConnect RSS Feeds – http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content
JAMA & Archives – http://pubs.ama-assn.org/misc/rssfeed.dtl
The Krafty Librarian – http://kraftylibrarian.blogspot.com/
MedicineNet Specialty Channels – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=100
National Institutes of Health headlines – http://www.nih.gov/news/
New England Journal of Medicine – http://content.nejm.org/rss/
Open Access News – http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
SAGE Publications – http://online.sagepub.com/lists/allsites.dtl
UBC Google Scholar Blog – http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/

Start with Bloglines - http://bloglines.com/

Learn how to subscribe to mailing lists in Bloglines - http://www.blogdriverswaltz.com/archive/000668.html
RSS4Medics Directory for finding feeds - http://www.rss4medics.com/directory.html

Bloglines Tutorials

Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half) Easy Steps - http://joy.mollprojects.com/myprojects/rss/quickrss.html
LawLibTech: RSS Tutorial Using Bloglines - http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000129.html
WisBlawg - http://wisblawg.blogspot.com/2004/09/tutorial-on-reading-blogs-with.html

A Few Good Aggregators

BlogBridge (free) – http://www.blogbridge.com/
Bloglet (free, RSS via email) – http://www.bloglet.com/
FeedDemon ($29.95) – http://www.feeddemon.com/
iPod Agent ($15) - http://www.ipodsoft.com/index.php?/software/ipodagent
NetNewsWire ($39.95, Mac) – http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
NewsGator ($29 for Outlook plugin, $5.95/month-$19.95/month for online services) – http://www.newsgator.com/
Pluck (free, integrates in Internet Explorer) - http://www.pluck.com/
QuickNews ($14.95, for Palm) - http://www.standalone.com/palmos/quick_news/
Rojo (free, web-based) – http://www.rojo.com/
Sage (free FireFox extension) - http://sage.mozdev.org/

Find more listed at http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html
Some aggregator reviews - http://www.stepno.com/pcworld/5rssreviews042804.html
The State of Online Feed Readers - http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/30/the-state-of-online-feed-readers/

Other Ways to Find RSS Feeds

Syndic8 – http://www.syndic8.com/
NewsIsFree – http://www.newsisfree.com/
BlogStreet – http://www.blogstreet.com/
2RSS.com – http://www.2rss.com/
Moreover - http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_rss.html
Share Your OPML - http://share.opml.org/ (requires a free login)
- Find that Feed - http://grumet.net/syo/findThatFeed
RSS Explorer (Windows IE only) - http://rssexplorer.planet-hood.com/
SciencePort - http://scienceport.org/
Technorati – http://www.technorati.com/

Sites We Played with

Feedster - http://feedster.com/
PubSub - http://pubsub.com/
- How to Use PubSub - http://www.bryght.com/node/146
PubMed - http://pubmed.gov/

Customizing Feeds by Keyword

Amazon
- http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/AmazonRSS.asp
- http://www.unto.net/aws/
Apartment Ratings – http://www.apartmentratings.com/
BBC News Online - http://www.vaporum.co.uk/locked/rss_search/
Dulance – http://www.dulance.com/
eBay - http://www.rssauction.com/
FindArticles.com - http://www.findarticles.com/
Google News - http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html
Indeed (jobs) – http://www.indeed.com/
Moreover - http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?k=librarian&o=rss
NASA Astrophysics Data System - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
Plogress - http://www.plogress.com/
Topix.net - http://www.topix.net/
VersionTracker - http://www.versiontracker.com/faq/rss/
Wired News - http://www.wired.com/news/rss
Yahoo Finance Company News - http://biz.yahoo.com/rss.html
Yahoo News Search – http://news.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Traffic Maps - http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic.rss?csz=60527&mag=5&minsev=1

Yahoo Goes RSS

Add RSS Headlines to My Yahoo - http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss
Yahoo Toolbar - http://toolbar.yahoo.com/?.cpdl=fp

Examples of Library-generated RSS Feeds

Georgia State University Library Subject Blogs and Feeds - http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/
Hennepin County Library Calendar of Events - http://www.hclib.org/pub/events/
Hennepin County Library's Subject Guides - http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/Reference.cfm
Hunterdon Central Regional High School "Channels" - http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/rss/

Additional Resources about RSS

All About RSS - http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
Lockergnome’s RSS Resource Site - http://rss.lockergnome.com/
News that Comes to You - http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1043362624.php
Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services - http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm
RSS for Non-Techie Librarians - http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm
RSS Toolkit - http://www.accessola.com/olita/site/showPage.cgi?page=toolkit/rss/
RSS4LIB – http://blogs.fletcher.tufts.edu/rss4lib/
Utah’s RSS Workshop - http://rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html

Library Catalogs with RSS

University of Hong Kong Science & Technology Library - http://lbxml.ust.hk/na/
Kenton County Public Library Feeds - http://apu.kenton.lib.ky.us/newbooks/newadult.php
University of Louisville Feeds - http://www.library.louisville.edu/users/mopurc01/rss/index.asp
Curtin University of Technology - http://library.curtin.edu.au/research/rss/catalogue_rss_feeds.html
University of Alberta Libraries - http://www.library.ualberta.ca/newbooks/
Hennepin County Library Catalog - http://hzapps.hclib.org/catalog/ (do a keyword search to see the RSS feed)
Taubman-Medical Library - http://www.lib.umich.edu/taubman/newbooks.html

RSS Feeds by Patrons

Peter Rukavina's Feed of His Own Patron Data - http://ruk.ca/article/2290
Peter Rukavina's Feed of New DVDs from His Library - http://ruk.ca/article/2292
Library Elf - http://www.libraryelf.com/
Ed Vielmetti's Sidebar of His Holds - http://vielmetti.typepad.com/ (Ed is also SuperPatron - http://superpatron.com/)
LiveJournal Site for Ann Arbor District Library's New Books - http://www.livejournal.com/users/aadl_bookblog/
Ed Vielmetti's Feed of Covers of New Books at AADL - http://flickr.com/photos/edward-vielmetti/83078194/

ILS Vendors and RSS

Sirsi - http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/01/19/sirsi_breaks_open_the_rss_flood_gates.html
Talis - http://panlibus.blogspot.com/2005/02/ground-breaking-library-personalised.html
Innovative - http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/06/03/innovative_gets_busy.html
Polaris - Incorporates RSS.asp | http://www.polarislibrary.com/NewsEvents/PressReleases/2006/Polaris Incorporates RSS.asp

How to Display RSS Feeds on Your Site

Rely on someone else for Javascript code
- Feed2JS - http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/ (you can also put this software on your own server)
- Feedroll - http://www.feedroll.com/
- RSS Digest (Javascript or HTML) - http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/
Parse RSS on your own server
- Blogfeed - http://www.kalsey.com/tools/blogfeed/
- LastRSS.php - http://lastrss.webdot.cz/
- Magpie - http://magpierss.sf.net/
- RSS Feed Magic - http://dev.izibox.isa-geek.org/RSSFeedMagic/
- Feed on Feeds - http://feedonfeeds.com/
Other RSS Services
- RSSMix – http://www.rssmix.com/ (combines multiple feeds into one)
- ListGarden - http://softwaregarden.com/products/listgarden/ (create your own RSS feeds manually)

Libraries Displaying RSS Feeds on their Own Pages

Moraine Valley Community College - displaying headlines from a blog on our server http://www2.sls.lib.il.us/MVCC/librarynews/ on their home page (http://www.morainevalley.edu/library/
UCSD Biomedical & Medical Center Libraries - http://biomed.ucsd.edu/ (displaying their own blog headlines on their home page]
Georgia State University Library's Behavioral Sciences News Blog - http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=61&view=rss&rss=yahoo (showing election news from Yahoo)
University of Winnipeg Library - http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/ (displaying feeds on the right-hand sidebar)
Georgia Tech Bioengineering Subject Guide - http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/subject/?/biomedical
Queen's Medical Center Hawaii Medical Library - http://hml.org/ (trying to display Reuters headlines)
Illinois Clicks - http://illinoisclicks.org/ (displays headlines from the http://suntimes.com/ in the right-hand sidebar)

How to Put FindRxOnline Feed to Your Site - http://www.findrxonline.com/rss-instruction.html (libraries could offer this type of service, too)

Consider adding a syndicaiton policy like the ones at http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?p=95

Libraries Aggregating RSS Feeds for Patrons

University of Alberta Evidence-based Practice Center - http://www.epc.ualberta.ca/ebm.html
Example of how a public library could use SuprGlu (http://www.suprglu.com/) to create a site of aggregated feeds that runs by itself (http://shiftedlibrarian.suprglu.com/)
University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries - http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/health/internet/RSS_feeds.shtml (reommended feeds)
Emily Alling's Collection of Science RSS Feeds - http://people.umass.edu/ealling/feeds.html (recommended feeds)
How Drexel University Is Using RSS, Bloglines, and WebCT - http://showme.physics.drexel.edu/bradley/DrexelCoAS017-JayAtWebCT.ppt (Powerpoint presentation)
Drexel Library's Public Bloglines Account - http://www.bloglines.com/public/bhattjj

RSS4Lib: Student Research by RSS Hits Mainstream - http://blogs.fletcher.tufts.edu/rss4lib/archives/000820.html (links to USA Today article about students using RSS for research)

RSS and Serials

University of Saskatchewan Directory of E-journals with RSS - http://library.usask.ca/ejournals/rss_feeds.php
Ebling Library RSS E-journal Feeds - http://www.hsl.wisc.edu/bjd/journals/rss/
Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library's Collection of RSS News Feeds - http://www.healthlibrary.emory.edu/index.php?module=phpwsrssfeeds&RSS_MAN_op=list
ProQuest's Curriculum Match Factor - http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/rss/rss.shtml (static RSS feeds)
Mock-ups of Academic Sites Displaying ProQuest Headlines via RSS - http://proquest.com/syndication/rss/cu_libraryPage_accounting.html (example library page), http://proquest.com/syndication/rss/cu_facultyPage_accounting.html (example faculty member page), http://proquest.com/syndication/rss/cu_courseInfo_advertising.html (example course syllabus page)
EBSCO Offers Keyword RSS Feeds - http://ebsco.com/home/whatsnew/ehost_newfeatures.asp
David Walker's rss creator - http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker/rss.htm (wrote software that creates RSS feeds for every journal in his federated search product and sends URLs through his SFX resolver)

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library - http://info.med.yale.edu/library/technology/rss/ (instructions for adding their headlines to the campus portal)

Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model (Alt Ref) - http://altref.blogspot.com/2006/03/intuitive-revelations-ubiquitous.html (using blogs and RSS to discover students who need help)

Library Community & Vendors Start to "Get It"

Factiva - http://fce.factiva.com/rss/marketing.htm
ScienceDirect Connect - http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/sd_updates/sd_connect/index.shtml#rss
OCLC Feeds - http://www.oclc.org/rss/
Westlaw Intraclips via RSS - http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000140.html
American Libraries - http://www.ala.org/cfapps/xml/alonline.xml
ALA Press Releases - http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/cfapps/xml/pr_inst.html
Gerry McKiernan’s collections
- B-Feeds: Web Feeds for Books & Monographs - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds1.htm
- eFeeds: Web Feeds from Electronic Journals - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm
- RSS: Library services delivered via Rich Site Services - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm

Elsevier & RSS - http://atgdev.elsevier.com/blogs/cleonard/?p=6

Podcasting

What Is Podcasting? -  | http://computer.howstuffworks.com/podcasting.htm 
Juice -  | http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/  (free podcatcher software)
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ (most famous podcatcher software)

Educational Podcasts

Boilercast - http://boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013/Boilercast/
Stanford iTunes - http://itunes.stanford.edu/

Library Podcasts

Book Voyages – http://bookvoyages.blogspot.com/
Daily SearchCast – http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/podcast.html
Listen Up! – http://listenup.libsyn.com/
Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL) - http://opalpodcast.blogspot.com/
Open Stacks – http://www.openstacks.net/os/
Schoolhouse Rock (defunct) – http://librarydjs.blogspot.com/ (“Think of us as a sonic vitamin that will help improve your research skills.”)
Teen Librarian – http://www.teenlibrarian.com/blog.html
TFML Click-A-Story - http://www.fordlibrary.org/clickastory/
TFML Teen Audio Reviews – http://www.fordlibrary.org/yareviews/
LIS Podcasts - http://lispodcasts.com/

Arizona Health Sciences Library Collection of Medical Podcasts - http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/Medical_podcasts.cfm

Further Resources about Podcasting

CastWiki – http://www.castwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
Podcasting News – http://www.podcastingnews.com/
Yahoo Group – http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podcasters/
BiblioCasting Mailing List – http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/1456
MLS Tech Summit Presentation – http://www.mls.lib.il.us/cats.cfm?catid=200&mid=632

Final Thoughts URLs

Dino - http://www.newsgator.com/
ING Testing RSS for Internal Communications - http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050329INGTestingRSSForInternalCommunications.html
RefWorks Incorporates RSS Feed Reader - http://www.refworks.com/refworks/help/Refworks.htm#New_Release_Notes.htm
RSS Is Evil - http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/archives/opinion/20040720_rss_is_evil.phtml
Feed Reading Lifecycle - http://braintags.com/archives/2005/11/feed_reading_lifecycle/

Go Forth and RSSify!

Please email me (jenny@theshiftedlibrarian.com) or IM me (cybrarygal on AIM) if you have questions from the class!

Thank you for coming!
Jenny Levine, http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/

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