• Brief introduction to sources of feeds and tools for locating them
• Most of this session will be practical: sharing experience and populating Bloglines.

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

Often of search results from databases

• PubMed – see support materials
• Other Bibliographic databases eg Web of Science, Scopus
• Journal publishers eg ScienceDirect can deliver subject alert results as feed

• There is no single comprehensive feed list or single search engine
• Need to use variety of sources to locate ready made feeds

• 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

• 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

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

This information is also available as a Powerpoint Show file

• Some suggested feed sources
• Creating a search feed from PubMed