Selected Online Resources for RSS and other Feeds

General Introductions

(n.d.) News feeds from the BBC. Easy-to-read overview of feeds and aggregators, with links to major software.

(n.d.) What is RSS? Yahoo! news. Simple introduction to feeds, with shortcuts to major Yahoo! news feeds.

Tschabitscher, Heinz (n.d.) Top 10 Windows RSS feed readers and news aggregators. About.com. From the email guide on About.

Welsh, Anne (formerly Bailey) (2005) Feeds for DrugData Update. DrugData Update, 30 September. Includes basic introduction to newsfeeds and aggregators, with links to other basic articles.

Harvard Law.  RSS 2.0. The official RSS standards site.  

Introductions for Information Professionals

Cohen, Steven (2002) RSS for non-techie librarians. LLRX.com. Quick-to-read introduction with links to software mentioned. Examples given using Newzcrawler.

Mizejewski, Michele (2007) Getting up to speed with RSS Webfeeds. (Five Weeks to a Social Library).  Streaming presentation (41 mins) /  Slides only / Audio (MP3, 41 mins) / Website with links and more information.

Rothman, David (2006) How to create a PubMed RSS feed for 30 journals. davidrothman.net, 28 July. Create a useful feed in 6 easy steps.

Training / Information Literacy

(n.d.) RSS tutorials. NLH. Aimed at those who have never used RSS before, with "how to" sections illustrated using Bloglines.

Wilkie, Fran (2005) Making sense of RSS. (NLH RSS Workshops). This pdf explains RSS and takes you through setting up a Bloglines account, step by step.

Powell, Andy (2003).  RSS resources. A resource from UKOLN, is particularly good on the technical and historical background to RSS.  

Finding Feeds / Promoting Your Feeds

NLH resources

(n.d.) Getting started. (NLH RSS directory). This page describes how to use the NLH RSS directory to find feeds.

(n.d.) RSS directory. NLH. Collates health feeds of interest to NHS and related staff.

(n.d.) Submit a feed (NLH RSS directory). Form to submit your feeds. 

Other resources

Channel directory (UKOLN) This page contains a directory of UK feeds, with an emphasis on the academic and cultural sectors.  You can submit your feeds to the directory.

Review of Scopus RSS option

Adding Feeds to Webpages

Rethlefsen, Melissa (2007) Using RSS to add currency to the library website. (Five Weeks to a Social Library). Screencast hosted on blip.tv that uses Googlepages to demonstrate how feeds can be added to websites.

RSS Express-lite provides a simple way of placing an RSS channel onto your own website.

Creating RSS feeds

Miller, Paul. (2003). Syndicated content: it's more than just some file formats.  Ariadne, issue 35.  Contains an intro to RSS plus some guidelines for good practice.