1. 1 What feeds are there and how to find them Patti Biggs & Anne Welsh

2. 2 Introduction Brief introduction to sources of feeds and tools for locating them Most of this session will be practical: sharing experience and populating Bloglines.

3. 3 Ready Made Feeds 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

4. 4 On the fly feeds Often of search results from databases PubMed – see handout Other Bibliographic databases eg Web of Science, Scopus Journal publishers eg ScienceDirect can deliver subject alert results as feed

5. 5 Finding feeds There is no single comprehensive feed list or single search engine Need to use variety of sources to locate ready made feeds

6. 6 Published lists/Directories Internet Resources Newsletter – produced by Herriot Watt University. Blogorama section lists interesting blogs and RSS feeds Internet Resources Newsletter RSSfeeds.com – searchable directory of feeds. The best I’ve found so far RSSfeeds.com RSSmicro – search for feeds &/or items in feeds RSSmicro

7. 7 Gateways RSS Compendium: RSS Feeds – lists collections of feeds rather than individual feeds RSS Compendium: RSS Feeds

8. 8 Search engines 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 Feedster Blog search sites Bloglines Search - tab in the Bloglines reader finds individual entries in blogs that it has indexed Bloglines Search Technorati - Real-time search for user-generated media (including blogs) by tag or keyword. Technorati 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. Blogpulse