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RSS. Tim Staniland Assistant Librarian Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Keeping clinicians up to date. What are RSS feeds? How do I read them? Where can I find RSS feeds? What do they look like? Adding a feed to your chosen reader.

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  1. RSS Tim Staniland Assistant Librarian Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  2. Keeping clinicians up to date. • What are RSS feeds? • How do I read them? • Where can I find RSS feeds? • What do they look like? • Adding a feed to your chosen reader. • My Library – National Library for Health. • TDNet! • Feeds that may interest you.

  3. OVERLOAD! If a clinician read one article a day, they would be 55 centuries behind after 1 year. Sackett DL, Haynes RB, Guyatt GH, et al. Clinical epidemiology: a basic science for clinical medicine. 2nd ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991

  4. A few ways to help clinicians keep up to date • Email ToCs alerts • Produce bulletins for specialities • Perform literature searches • Circulate new book lists • Email specialist groups with latest updates • NLH specialist libraries • Visit specialist websites regularly

  5. Problems • Email – busy clinicians are often swamped by emails, and may delete without reading. • Bulletins – labour intensive; rely on the librarian to ‘choose’ relevant material. • Lit searches – would be very labour intensive if they were done for everybody. • New book lists – not very current by their very nature. • NLH specialist libraries – rely on clinicians knowing what is available and where to find it. • Visiting the same websites to see if there is anything new or updated is time and labour intensive.

  6. Solution? • What if you could have the latest articles in your interest area delivered to your desktop as soon as it is made available? • RSS feeds could provide the answer!

  7. What are RSS feeds? • RSS - Really Simple Syndication. • OR Rich Site Summary • OR RDF (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary • You may see ATOM feed – treat as the same as RSS • RSS feeds are an XML-based (extensible markup language) format for sharing and distributing web content.

  8. BMJ

  9. How do you receive RSS feeds? • An RSS reader (sometimes called a newsreader or news aggregator), allows you to receive and view feeds from various sources in a single interface. The reader checks the feeds regularly and displays any updated content it finds. • Readers can be web based eg Google reader, NLH. • Readers can be a piece of software on your desktop eg SharpReader.

  10. Which reader to use? • The choice of reader is a personal one. • Pros and cons to each approach. • Web based readers have the advantage of being accessible from any internet enabled PC. • Desktop feed readers are often less obtrusive and can offer increased functionality.

  11. NLH My Library • Pros • My library – easy to set up feeds • Athens authenticated – seamless (!) access • Single interface • Cons • Limited functionality • 4 items by default • Requires another click to see all items from a feed

  12. Akregator AOL Explorer Avant Browser Blam! BlogBridge BottomFeeder Claws Mail Cooliris FeedBeast FeedDemon FeedGhost Feedreader Feedview Flock FreeRange WebReader Gnus Hubdog IBM Lotus Notes Internet Explorer K-Meleon Liferea Mail Maxthon mDigger Mercury Messenger Microsoft Office Outlook Mindity Mozilla Thunderbird NetNewsWire Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator 9 NewsAccess NewsBreak Newsbeuter NewsFire NewsFox Omea OmniWeb Opera Mail Pegasus Mail RSS Bandit RSSOwl Safari Sage SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir Snarfer The Bat! Thinfeeder Vienna Windows Live Mail Windows Mail Zimbra Try Wiikipedia or Google when looking for a feed reader.

  13. Finding a feed • What to look for:

  14. Where to find a feed • TDNet • NLH feed directory • Journal homepage • Keep your eyes peeled!

  15. http://www.library.nhs.uk/mylibrary/ BMJ JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association NLH My LibraryAdding a feed

  16. Google reader adding a feed • www.google.com

  17. www.bmj.com/rss/latest.xml

  18. TDNet • Your one-stop shop for locating health related RSS feeds. • Add them to My Library quickly and easily. • They do have drawbacks however – but I am assured that these issues will be addressed in time. • TDNet

  19. Feeds that may be of interest to you • Information Technology & Libraries • He@lth Information on the Internet • Computers in Libraries • NHS Articles from Microsoft • www.microsoft.com/uk/nhs/rss.aspx • Check TDNet for ‘libraries’ or ‘information’ • Go to the hosting site and see if they provide a feed ie Ebsco, Proquest.

  20. Setting up a current awareness service using RSS feeds Information Services INSIDE(Integrating News Sources In Desktop Environments) is a project using RSS and Atom feeds to deliver current awareness information into the intranet sites which users already visit. 

  21. Questions?

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