RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP All info on Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS http://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/services/rss.html
What is RSS? Rich Site Summary Each time the website, journal, blog is updated, updates appear in the feed Receive all info from scholarly journals, blogs & news in one place do not have to continually look at web site
Types of Feeds Law Journals – Contents or Full Text SSRN Author Feeds Court Cases Blogs Tags from Social Bookmarking Sites
How to Find Feeds See Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS The url is http://www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/services/rss.html#finding
RSS vs. Other Current Awareness Use in addition to, not instead of others Others=Lexis & Westlaw Saved Searches, SSRN emails, Washington & Lee CLJC emails, SmartCILP Feed reader format may be easier to go through fast Many items in one place – SSRN authors feeds, journal feeds, news, blogs (Lexis and WL have blogs and news, but not all)
RSS vs. Other Current Awareness Filtering (term searching) is more precise and easier on Westlaw and Lexis, but available with RSS Readers. (Also with Washington &Lee) RSS feed of journal may be faster than WL/Lexis. Washington & Lee CLJC & SmartCILP are fast. RSS Readers and many feeds are Free
Thunderbird RSS Reader Does not give first paragraph of text Has filtering options Conveniently with Email
Filtering on Bloglines Easy way is via Feed Sifter
Futher topics Send an RSS feed to Email Creating an RSS feed