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Thursday, May 19, 2005

RSS Club Meeting - Learn all about blogs and RSS feeds to keep you uptodate

Hi all,

Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Coordinator for E-Learning at the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, has recently started a new initiative to enhance the use of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology in teaching and learning.

The RSS Club meets every Friday at 12 pm in MacAlister Hall in room 4020. You are all invited. We are all learning from this new technology so your participation may result in some good discussion in the process.

To get some idea: here are some blogs

MP3 Podcasts of talks or seminars in the College of Arts and Sciences
at Drexel University.

Chemistry Department

Physics

Engineering Resources Blog

scitech library question


Using Bloglines you can create your individual account and add feeds from scientific journals and results of your search queries based on Ei Compendex (Engineering Village). Simply click on RSS or XML icon and copy and paste that URL into your bloglines account. You do not need to download a separate feed reader. You can access your feeds through bloglines from anywhere without having receive email alerts from number of resources that you might have subscribed for email alerts earlier.

Please have a look at Jay's Bloglines Compilation

to see various sample feeds on journal alerts or search query results from Ei compendex in the left column.

For more info, please see Blogging Poster Handout

Try Hubmed
an alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database - PubMed rewired with RSS feeds on search results

Tables of contents from variety of journals such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Materials and those from the Institute of Physics can be tracked using this new technology. A complete listing of all RSS feeds from Nature titles is available at Nature Newsfeed. The use of RSS feeds alleviates the need for researchers to subscribe to email alerts since they can be able to view new information from their choice of RSS feeds as one portal.

New Patent Applications - Paste this link into bloglines and keep uptodate with new patent applications filed

and

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library RSS Feeds
IEEE Computer Society now offers the availability of the latest magazines and transactions content through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds using XML (or eXtensible Markup Language) to automatically deliver new abstracts to your desktop.

1 Comments:

At 8:45 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Consider the power of being able to create incoming links to your site any time you want them...

 

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