The document discusses RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and other web feed formats. It provides an overview of what RSS is, where feeds can be found on websites, and how users can subscribe to feeds using different feed reader programs. The document also gives examples of the types of content that are often distributed via feeds, such as news, journal articles, book listings, and library announcements.
Getting online information to come to you nacaa 2012nacaa
Today we face a problem, not of information scarcity, but an over abundance of information. Getting useful online information to flow to you is critical to keep pace with the explosion of online knowledge.
We often find reliable and interesting sources of information, but find it difficult to keep returning to see what’s been posted recently. RSS feeds and feed readers help deliver up-to-date content from the sources you choose. This session will explain what an RSS feed is, and how you can use a feed reader to aggregate all these updates in one, easy to read, place - and keep them out of your inbox.
Presented by Anne Adrian and John Dorner
This newsletter issue introduces several new contributors and articles about library technology. It includes articles on pricing trends for personal computers, open source software in libraries, educating users about copyright and fair use, and a case study of library automation at the University of Valencia, Spain. Conference reports are provided from recent library technology conferences. New columns explore e-books and a new SLAC electronic conference proceedings archive. The issue aims to provide timely information on library technology topics to its readers.
The document discusses the history and future of digital textbooks. It notes that over a decade ago, educators and publishers envisioned the "Future Textbook" as being more than just a printed book, incorporating interactive elements. Since then, ebooks and digital textbooks have grown significantly in popularity. The document outlines the stages of development for digital textbooks, from early experimentation to future standards. It also discusses increasing ebook and digital textbook sales, as well as activities in the academic community around adopting more digital content options.
The document provides an overview of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and web feeds. It begins with an introduction to RSS and what it allows websites to do. It then covers the different types of RSS formats that exist and how users can subscribe to feeds using various feed readers or browsers. Examples are given of organizations, libraries, and sites that provide content via RSS feeds. The last part discusses how RSS can be used for things like announcements, databases, instruction, new books/journals, and more.
This document summarizes the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) e-print archive (arXiv.org), which revolutionized scholarly communication in scientific communities by allowing electronic sharing of preprints. Started in 1991 by Paul Ginsparg, it began as an email-based system for physicists to share preprints but grew significantly. It now hosts over 500,000 e-prints across physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Authors can submit and retrieve preprints through a centralized server. The archive helped advance open scholarly communication before conventional journals embraced electronic formats.
The document discusses several free international web-based patent sites, including those run by the USPTO, European Patent Office, China Patent Database, DEPATISnet, and the Industrial Property Digital Library. It describes the types of patent information available on each site, such as bibliographic data, abstracts, and in some cases full-text patent documents. It also summarizes the different search interfaces provided, including basic, advanced, and Boolean searching options available to users.
This document summarizes five e-print servers across different academic disciplines:
1) The Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS) is a freely available archive for rapid distribution of chemistry research. Authors can submit manuscripts and works-in-progress.
2) Clinical Medicine & Health Research NetPrints is a repository for non-peer reviewed medical and health research. It contains 45 e-prints as of July 2001.
3) CogPrints is an e-print server for research in cognitive sciences like psychology and neuroscience containing over 4,000 e-prints as of July 2001.
This document summarizes several mobile applications related to accessing digital content on Apple devices. It discusses the Kindle app which allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to read Kindle ebooks and periodicals. It also describes the Questia Library app which provides access to Questia's collection of books, journals and articles. Finally, it mentions the arXiview app which enables browsing recent submissions to the arXiv preprint repository. All three apps help expand the capabilities of Apple mobile devices for accessing digital reading materials and scholarly resources.
Getting online information to come to you nacaa 2012nacaa
Today we face a problem, not of information scarcity, but an over abundance of information. Getting useful online information to flow to you is critical to keep pace with the explosion of online knowledge.
We often find reliable and interesting sources of information, but find it difficult to keep returning to see what’s been posted recently. RSS feeds and feed readers help deliver up-to-date content from the sources you choose. This session will explain what an RSS feed is, and how you can use a feed reader to aggregate all these updates in one, easy to read, place - and keep them out of your inbox.
Presented by Anne Adrian and John Dorner
This newsletter issue introduces several new contributors and articles about library technology. It includes articles on pricing trends for personal computers, open source software in libraries, educating users about copyright and fair use, and a case study of library automation at the University of Valencia, Spain. Conference reports are provided from recent library technology conferences. New columns explore e-books and a new SLAC electronic conference proceedings archive. The issue aims to provide timely information on library technology topics to its readers.
The document discusses the history and future of digital textbooks. It notes that over a decade ago, educators and publishers envisioned the "Future Textbook" as being more than just a printed book, incorporating interactive elements. Since then, ebooks and digital textbooks have grown significantly in popularity. The document outlines the stages of development for digital textbooks, from early experimentation to future standards. It also discusses increasing ebook and digital textbook sales, as well as activities in the academic community around adopting more digital content options.
The document provides an overview of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and web feeds. It begins with an introduction to RSS and what it allows websites to do. It then covers the different types of RSS formats that exist and how users can subscribe to feeds using various feed readers or browsers. Examples are given of organizations, libraries, and sites that provide content via RSS feeds. The last part discusses how RSS can be used for things like announcements, databases, instruction, new books/journals, and more.
This document summarizes the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) e-print archive (arXiv.org), which revolutionized scholarly communication in scientific communities by allowing electronic sharing of preprints. Started in 1991 by Paul Ginsparg, it began as an email-based system for physicists to share preprints but grew significantly. It now hosts over 500,000 e-prints across physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Authors can submit and retrieve preprints through a centralized server. The archive helped advance open scholarly communication before conventional journals embraced electronic formats.
The document discusses several free international web-based patent sites, including those run by the USPTO, European Patent Office, China Patent Database, DEPATISnet, and the Industrial Property Digital Library. It describes the types of patent information available on each site, such as bibliographic data, abstracts, and in some cases full-text patent documents. It also summarizes the different search interfaces provided, including basic, advanced, and Boolean searching options available to users.
This document summarizes five e-print servers across different academic disciplines:
1) The Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS) is a freely available archive for rapid distribution of chemistry research. Authors can submit manuscripts and works-in-progress.
2) Clinical Medicine & Health Research NetPrints is a repository for non-peer reviewed medical and health research. It contains 45 e-prints as of July 2001.
3) CogPrints is an e-print server for research in cognitive sciences like psychology and neuroscience containing over 4,000 e-prints as of July 2001.
This document summarizes several mobile applications related to accessing digital content on Apple devices. It discusses the Kindle app which allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to read Kindle ebooks and periodicals. It also describes the Questia Library app which provides access to Questia's collection of books, journals and articles. Finally, it mentions the arXiview app which enables browsing recent submissions to the arXiv preprint repository. All three apps help expand the capabilities of Apple mobile devices for accessing digital reading materials and scholarly resources.
RSS is playing an increasing role in delivering information on the web by allowing content from websites, blogs, databases and other sources to be accessed through RSS feeds. Libraries, publishers and database providers are making more of their content available through RSS feeds. As RSS and other web technologies continue to evolve, they are likely to have a greater impact on how libraries and researchers access and manage scientific information, especially as users adopt new mobile devices.
RSS Basics And Beyond: Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicate...Ken Varnum
A talk at The Ohio State University's Library 2.0 Seminar on June 13, 2007. This talk is an introduction to RSS, feed aggregators, and easy ways libraries can take advantage of RSS to improve communication with their patrons, communities, and staffs.
The document summarizes several web tools for reference search, including ArXiv, which allows users to retrieve and submit physics and mathematics papers, RSS feeds for new submissions, and searching by archive number or keywords. It also discusses ISI Web of Knowledge for searching across subscribed databases, PubMed for searching biomedical literature and accessing full texts, and WolframAlpha, which aims to make all systematic knowledge computable through internal computations rather than web searching.
The document presents an overview of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and its uses in libraries. It defines RSS as a format for sharing web content like news, blog posts, and forum updates. It describes how RSS feeds allow libraries to "push" information to users through a centralized reader, keeping them updated on new resources, events, and collection additions. Examples are given of how libraries can use RSS feeds to keep specific user groups informed about relevant content updates. The presenters encourage the audience to try out RSS readers and feeds to experience their benefits firsthand.
This presentation is a list of Chemistry Apps that will be updated on a regular basis as more Apps become available. This presentation is a partner presentation to the SciMobileApps wiki at www.scimobileapps.com, a wiki that anybody can register on to add information about scientific apps.
This document discusses several approaches to automated news feeds and additional information resources. It describes converting web pages to RSS format using tagging, personalized feeds that allow users to select preferred sources, and searching news items in RSS format. Models are proposed that are beneficial to both users and services, and further information resources on RSS are provided, including discussion lists and articles. The document concludes by asking about conclusions on using news feeds within institutions and other organizations, and future action plans.
The document discusses blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds. It defines blogs as online journals where users can post commentary and links. Wikis allow for collaborative editing of content on a website. RSS feeds allow users to subscribe to updated content from blogs and websites in an aggregator without visiting each site directly. The document provides examples and tips for creating and using blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds, particularly in a library setting.
This document provides an introduction to Web 2.0 technologies and their potential applications for student services and marketing. It outlines key concepts of Web 2.0 like social networking, user-generated content, blogs, wikis and discusses how these can help engage students and improve services. The document also examines challenges of adopting Web 2.0 approaches in educational institutions.
Stay Alert! Keeping Your Humanities Research Up-to-DateKaren Reiman-Sendi
Workshop description: Tired of spending your time surfing the web for current research in your humanities discipline? Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of new scholarly literature created in your field? During this hands-on workshop, we'll talk about email alerting services and RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") feeds, and how these tools can help you keep up-to-date in the humanities. Using selected library resources, such as the library catalog and library databases along the lines of MLA International Bibliography and Historical Abstracts, we'll demonstrate some strategies for collecting wide-ranging scholarly information into your email inbox and into an RSS feed reader.
This document provides an introduction to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) including:
1) RSS allows websites to syndicate their content so that updates can be viewed in an RSS reader without visiting the site directly.
2) RSS uses XML formatting to separate content from presentation and make feeds viewable across different readers.
3) RSS has evolved since its creation in 1997 and is now widely used for everything from news sites to blogs, academic research, and social media like Flickr and YouTube.
This document provides an overview of various social software tools relevant to forestry professionals, including blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, wikis, instant messaging, and social networks. It defines each tool, provides examples of their use in forestry, and discusses how professionals can implement them. The goal is to introduce these Web 2.0 technologies and foster more interaction within the forestry community.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for distributing news and content from websites. It allows users to subscribe to feeds from sites and have new content automatically downloaded to an RSS reader. Some benefits of RSS readers include the ability to organize feeds into categories, search across feeds, and add notes or flags. While RSS readers are good for staying up to date on news and blogs, they have limitations like the inability to read email or synchronize across devices. Teachers could use RSS feeds in the classroom to keep students informed on current events or weather updates through their readers.
The document discusses services and perspectives from the University of Huddersfield library. It provides details on enhancements made to the library catalog to add Web 2.0 inspired features like borrowing recommendations and course specific RSS feeds. Usage data is analyzed, showing increases in borrowing and the number of unique titles borrowed after recommendations were added. The library also released circulation transaction and book recommendation data as open data to be reused by others.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows users to subscribe to frequently updated content like news websites, blogs, and library resources. When new content is added, it is automatically sent to the user's RSS reader so they don't need to manually check pages for updates. Libraries are using RSS feeds to notify patrons of new databases, resources, and services. Library 2.0 refers to applying Web 2.0 technologies like social media, user-generated content, and collaboration to libraries to make them more interactive.
The document provides an overview of RSS feeds and how to use RSS readers. It defines what an RSS feed and RSS reader are, explains the benefits of using RSS such as saving time by not needing to visit each individual site, and provides examples of RSS readers for different platforms like Google Reader, SharpReader, and Liferea. It also gives directions for how to set up RSS feeds by finding blogs on topics of interest and subscribing to them in an RSS reader.
Presented August 6, 2007 at the Florida Library Association and Panhandle Library Access Network Unconference, 'Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: Up Close and Personal.'
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. The prototype uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources and provides browsable access through broad subject categories. It aims to enhance discovery and use of relevant resources by applying established selection criteria and presenting descriptive annotations. The document outlines the philosophy, organization, selection process, and access features of the CyberStacks prototype, arguing that familiar library structures and conventions can help users navigate Internet resources more effectively.
This document summarizes five innovative electronic journals, indexes, or services that go beyond conventional online publications by providing novel features and functionalities. It profiles the Astronomy and Astrophysics index from the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, which uses a self-organizing map to organize journal articles into a clickable graphical interface. It also summarizes the Internet Journal of Chemistry, an electronic-only journal that encourages authors to incorporate interactive elements like animations and molecular structures to enhance reader comprehension. The document discusses how these resources aim to fully utilize the digital environment and empower readers through customization options.
RSS is playing an increasing role in delivering information on the web by allowing content from websites, blogs, databases and other sources to be accessed through RSS feeds. Libraries, publishers and database providers are making more of their content available through RSS feeds. As RSS and other web technologies continue to evolve, they are likely to have a greater impact on how libraries and researchers access and manage scientific information, especially as users adopt new mobile devices.
RSS Basics And Beyond: Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicate...Ken Varnum
A talk at The Ohio State University's Library 2.0 Seminar on June 13, 2007. This talk is an introduction to RSS, feed aggregators, and easy ways libraries can take advantage of RSS to improve communication with their patrons, communities, and staffs.
The document summarizes several web tools for reference search, including ArXiv, which allows users to retrieve and submit physics and mathematics papers, RSS feeds for new submissions, and searching by archive number or keywords. It also discusses ISI Web of Knowledge for searching across subscribed databases, PubMed for searching biomedical literature and accessing full texts, and WolframAlpha, which aims to make all systematic knowledge computable through internal computations rather than web searching.
The document presents an overview of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and its uses in libraries. It defines RSS as a format for sharing web content like news, blog posts, and forum updates. It describes how RSS feeds allow libraries to "push" information to users through a centralized reader, keeping them updated on new resources, events, and collection additions. Examples are given of how libraries can use RSS feeds to keep specific user groups informed about relevant content updates. The presenters encourage the audience to try out RSS readers and feeds to experience their benefits firsthand.
This presentation is a list of Chemistry Apps that will be updated on a regular basis as more Apps become available. This presentation is a partner presentation to the SciMobileApps wiki at www.scimobileapps.com, a wiki that anybody can register on to add information about scientific apps.
This document discusses several approaches to automated news feeds and additional information resources. It describes converting web pages to RSS format using tagging, personalized feeds that allow users to select preferred sources, and searching news items in RSS format. Models are proposed that are beneficial to both users and services, and further information resources on RSS are provided, including discussion lists and articles. The document concludes by asking about conclusions on using news feeds within institutions and other organizations, and future action plans.
The document discusses blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds. It defines blogs as online journals where users can post commentary and links. Wikis allow for collaborative editing of content on a website. RSS feeds allow users to subscribe to updated content from blogs and websites in an aggregator without visiting each site directly. The document provides examples and tips for creating and using blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds, particularly in a library setting.
This document provides an introduction to Web 2.0 technologies and their potential applications for student services and marketing. It outlines key concepts of Web 2.0 like social networking, user-generated content, blogs, wikis and discusses how these can help engage students and improve services. The document also examines challenges of adopting Web 2.0 approaches in educational institutions.
Stay Alert! Keeping Your Humanities Research Up-to-DateKaren Reiman-Sendi
Workshop description: Tired of spending your time surfing the web for current research in your humanities discipline? Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of new scholarly literature created in your field? During this hands-on workshop, we'll talk about email alerting services and RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") feeds, and how these tools can help you keep up-to-date in the humanities. Using selected library resources, such as the library catalog and library databases along the lines of MLA International Bibliography and Historical Abstracts, we'll demonstrate some strategies for collecting wide-ranging scholarly information into your email inbox and into an RSS feed reader.
This document provides an introduction to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) including:
1) RSS allows websites to syndicate their content so that updates can be viewed in an RSS reader without visiting the site directly.
2) RSS uses XML formatting to separate content from presentation and make feeds viewable across different readers.
3) RSS has evolved since its creation in 1997 and is now widely used for everything from news sites to blogs, academic research, and social media like Flickr and YouTube.
This document provides an overview of various social software tools relevant to forestry professionals, including blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, wikis, instant messaging, and social networks. It defines each tool, provides examples of their use in forestry, and discusses how professionals can implement them. The goal is to introduce these Web 2.0 technologies and foster more interaction within the forestry community.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for distributing news and content from websites. It allows users to subscribe to feeds from sites and have new content automatically downloaded to an RSS reader. Some benefits of RSS readers include the ability to organize feeds into categories, search across feeds, and add notes or flags. While RSS readers are good for staying up to date on news and blogs, they have limitations like the inability to read email or synchronize across devices. Teachers could use RSS feeds in the classroom to keep students informed on current events or weather updates through their readers.
The document discusses services and perspectives from the University of Huddersfield library. It provides details on enhancements made to the library catalog to add Web 2.0 inspired features like borrowing recommendations and course specific RSS feeds. Usage data is analyzed, showing increases in borrowing and the number of unique titles borrowed after recommendations were added. The library also released circulation transaction and book recommendation data as open data to be reused by others.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows users to subscribe to frequently updated content like news websites, blogs, and library resources. When new content is added, it is automatically sent to the user's RSS reader so they don't need to manually check pages for updates. Libraries are using RSS feeds to notify patrons of new databases, resources, and services. Library 2.0 refers to applying Web 2.0 technologies like social media, user-generated content, and collaboration to libraries to make them more interactive.
The document provides an overview of RSS feeds and how to use RSS readers. It defines what an RSS feed and RSS reader are, explains the benefits of using RSS such as saving time by not needing to visit each individual site, and provides examples of RSS readers for different platforms like Google Reader, SharpReader, and Liferea. It also gives directions for how to set up RSS feeds by finding blogs on topics of interest and subscribing to them in an RSS reader.
Presented August 6, 2007 at the Florida Library Association and Panhandle Library Access Network Unconference, 'Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: Up Close and Personal.'
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. The prototype uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources and provides browsable access through broad subject categories. It aims to enhance discovery and use of relevant resources by applying established selection criteria and presenting descriptive annotations. The document outlines the philosophy, organization, selection process, and access features of the CyberStacks prototype, arguing that familiar library structures and conventions can help users navigate Internet resources more effectively.
This document summarizes five innovative electronic journals, indexes, or services that go beyond conventional online publications by providing novel features and functionalities. It profiles the Astronomy and Astrophysics index from the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, which uses a self-organizing map to organize journal articles into a clickable graphical interface. It also summarizes the Internet Journal of Chemistry, an electronic-only journal that encourages authors to incorporate interactive elements like animations and molecular structures to enhance reader comprehension. The document discusses how these resources aim to fully utilize the digital environment and empower readers through customization options.
This document summarizes five innovative electronic journals, indexes, or services that go beyond conventional online publications by providing novel features and functionalities. It profiles the Astronomy and Astrophysics index from the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, which uses a self-organizing map to organize journal articles into a clickable graphical interface. It also summarizes the Internet Journal of Chemistry, an electronic-only journal that encourages authors to incorporate interactive elements like animations and molecular structures to enhance reader comprehension. The document discusses how these resources aim to fully utilize the digital environment and empower readers through customization options.
This document summarizes an article about new interfaces for electronic journals. It describes several novel technologies that take advantage of the digital format to further facilitate use of electronic collections, including higher-level access options beyond typical search features. These include automatically generating terms and semantic relationships to represent document topics, and visualizing these concepts and relationships to reduce the cognitive load of conventional searching. The visualization allows interactive exploration and filtering of document collections through concept mapping.
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database funded by NASA that provides bibliographic records and full text articles in astronomy, astrophysics, and related fields. It contains over 2.3 million abstracts as of 2001. The ADS includes searchable abstracts from major journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and dissertations. Users can search by author, title, keywords, publication date, and other filters. Search results are ranked by relevance and users can view brief records or full details of publications from the search results. The ADS is a widely used resource with over 100,000 users from 112 countries accessing it monthly in 2001.
Alexander Street Press provides online collections in the humanities and social sciences through its website and mobile apps. It offers collections of music scores, recordings, videos and reference materials that can be accessed on smartphones and tablets through its mobile-friendly website and apps for iOS and Android devices. Alexander Street Press partners with major content producers and plans to release an iPhone app.
The document summarizes recent events and projects in the fields of digital preservation, metadata, cataloging standards and practices. It describes a forum held by RLG on converging standards for digital preservation, ALCTS regional institutes on metadata and cataloging rules, training courses offered by Rare Book School, an Open Archives workshop in Portugal, and the annual NASIG conference in Virginia. It also provides overviews of the Diffuse Project standards information source and the DLIST digital library for information science and technology.
This document provides summaries of several upcoming conferences, training programs, videoconferences, and workshops related to metadata and digital libraries. It also summarizes two ongoing projects: the development of a MARC 21 XML schema by the Library of Congress to facilitate the communication and conversion of MARC records, and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) being developed by the Library of Congress as a standard for encoding metadata about digital library objects.
Gerry McKiernan is a popular science and technology librarian blogger from Iowa State University. He runs several blogs focused on emerging technologies and their applications for libraries. McKiernan has been blogging since 2003 and his blogs regularly rank in the top 1% worldwide according to Technorati. He gains professional benefits from blogging through opportunities to present at conferences and staying up to date on new developments relevant to his work.
Roddy MacLeod is an award-winning information professional at the cutting edge of the industry. He has been blogging since 2005 and runs multiple blogs, including the Heriot-Watt Library blog Spineless and the JISC-funded TicTocs project blog. Blogging helps Roddy market the library, build interest in projects, and stay on top of trends in the field. It also expands his network and improves his writing skills.
This document summarizes several free international web-based patent sites:
- The USPTO and European Patent Office websites provide free access to patent information as well as other intellectual property resources. Other non-Western nations also offer free patent databases.
- Key free patent database services highlighted include DEPATISnet, the Industrial Property Digital Library (Japan), and the Intellectual Property Digital Library hosted by WIPO. Each provides search access to large collections of patent documents and bibliographic information.
1. The document discusses how MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) could disrupt higher education through innovative business models and flexible learning approaches.
2. It analyzes MOOCs using the theory of disruptive innovation, finding that MOOCs initially target non-consumers of higher education but may eventually compete with traditional universities by improving performance over time.
3. While MOOCs have potential to disrupt higher education, the education sector is complex with many players and regulations, so the impacts are difficult to predict and universities may not be displaced in the same way as other disrupted industries.
Gerry McKiernan is a popular science and technology librarian blogger from Iowa State University. He runs several blogs on topics like online social networks, bioenergy, geothermal energy, and wind energy that receive thousands of subscribers. McKiernan has been blogging since 2003 and credits it with helping him stay on top of developments in his fields and getting invitations to present at conferences. He enjoys the feedback from colleagues who find his blogs professionally valuable.
The document discusses several free international web-based patent sites, including those run by the USPTO, European Patent Office, China Patent Database, DEPATISnet, and Industrial Property Digital Library. It describes the types of patent information available on each site, such as bibliographic data, abstracts, and in some cases full-text patent documents. It also summarizes the search interfaces and capabilities of each site.
This document summarizes several free international web-based patent sites:
- The USPTO and European Patent Office websites provide free access to patent information as well as other intellectual property resources. Other non-Western nations also offer free patent databases.
- Key free patent database services described include DEPATISnet, the Industrial Property Digital Library (Japan), and the Intellectual Property Digital Library hosted by WIPO. Each provides search access to large collections of patent documents and bibliographic information.
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. Specifically, it uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources into categories. This allows users to browse broad subjects and drill down into more specific topics. The goals are to reduce cognitive load for users and provide context among related resources. Key elements include selecting high-quality reference materials, classifying resources based on subject coverage, and presenting descriptive annotations to help users evaluate resources. The document argues this approach can make Internet resources easier to navigate for users familiar with traditional library systems and services.
This document provides details about the Energy Citations Database (ECD) produced by the U.S. Department of Energy. It describes the content, search features, and record format of the ECD. Key points include:
- The ECD contains over 2 million bibliographic records related to energy and energy-related research funded by the DOE.
- Records include fields for title, authors, publication date, report numbers, subject terms, and abstracts. Links to fulltext are provided for some newer publications.
- Searches can be done through a basic search box searching specific fields, or through an advanced search interface. Searching supports boolean operators and wildcard characters.
- Results can be sorted
The document discusses free web-based patent databases available through esp@cenet. Esp@cenet provides access to over 45 million patent documents from the European Patent Office and other patent offices around the world. It allows users to perform basic and advanced searches. The presentation also reviews other international patent databases from countries and regions like China, Germany, Japan, and WIPO.
The document summarizes esp@cenet®, a free web-based patent search service provided by the European Patent Office. Esp@cenet® provides access to over 42.5 million patent documents from over 70 countries. It allows users to search for patent information via three gateways - the EPO gateway, national patent office gateways of EPO member states, or the European Commission gateway. Basic "Quick Searches" can be done on title/abstract or by patent number. Search results provide bibliographic data and English abstracts when available.
1. The ABCs of RSS
Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ABC.ppt
2. WHAT: Spring 2006 Reference &
Instruction Departmental Training
WHERE: Library Seminar Room
WHEN: January 26, 2006 | 8:30 – 9:15 AM |
ABCs of RSS
3. Reference & Instruction Training
Committee
Andrea Dinkelman
Jan Fryer
Pali Kuruppu
Joyce Lindstrom
! THANK YOU !
4. DISCLAIMER (1)
The screen prints selected for this
presentation are for educational
purposes.
Their inclusion does not constitute
an endorsement of an associated
product, service, place, or
institution.
5. DISCLAIMER (2)
The views and opinions expressed in
this document are those of the
presenter and do not constitute an
endorsement by Iowa State University
or its Library.
6. I Am Not
A Rocket Scientist,
Nor
Do I
Play One
On TV.
DISCLAIMER (3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Braun
9. “Why a Feed?” (1)
“Automated Web surfing”
“In a nutshell, a Webfeed is a way for online
venues to continuously ‘feed’ you
announcements of their latest content, with
links to each new content item.”
10. “Why a Feed?” (2)
“RSS feeds provide a way to deliver content
to the user, rather than the user having to
go out and find the content via traditional
Web methods, such as search engines and
Web directories.”
“Web feeds can significantly reduce the
need to individually re-visit sites of interest
for changes or additions.”
12. RSS (1)
‘RSS’ is an umbrella term for a
variety of XML files which enable the
sharing of Web site content. It can be
understood as “a Web syndication
protocol that is primarily used by news
Websites and Weblogs.
13. RSS (2)
RSS allows a Web developer to
publish content on their Website in a
format that a computer program can
easily understand and digest.”
“RSS simply repackages the content
as a list of data items, such as the date
of a news story, a summary of the story
and a link to it.
14. RSS (3)
A program known as an RSS
aggregator or feed reader can then
check RSS-enabled Web pages for the
user, and display any updated articles
that it finds.”
http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm
15. RSS (4)
‘Rich Site Summary’
‘Really Simple Syndication’
‘RDF Site Summary’
17. RSS (6)
Earliest RSS versions (.91, .92, .93, .94)
and a later RSS version (2.0) were developed
by UserLand (http://www.userland.com/)
RSS version 1.0 was developed by the RSS-
DEV Working Group (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ rss-dev/).
22. Atom
“Atom is a Web standard similar to RSS. It
was created to solve the problem of confusion
created by having parallel standards for RSS
(e.g, Really Simple Syndication and RDF Site
Summary) and create a new more flexible Web
syndication format and API.”
Atom is an alternative XML Web feed format
promoted by Blogger.com for its blogging
service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29
42. Subscribing to a Feed
Depending on the particular reader, users can
subscribe to a Web feed in a variety of ways:
Clicking the RSS feed option;
Clicking the icon and copying the Web address
(URL) from the displayed page, and pasting the
associated address into the reader;
Some readers also allow users to subscribe to a
web feed by simply dragging and dropping the
associated Web feed icon into the reader.
48. “Who’s a Feed” (1)
Eastern Michigan University
Georgia State University
Hennepin County Library
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
Informationszentrum Chemie Biologie
Pharmazie (Switzerland)
49. “Who’s a Feed” (2)
Institute for Astronomy
Kansas City Public Library
Metropolitan Library System (Illinois)
Minneapolis Public Library
Northwestern University Library
Lunar and Planetary Institute
50. “Who’s a Feed” (3)
Ohio University
Oxford University
Pennsylvania State University
Rowland Institute at Harvard Library
Topeka and Shawnee County Public
Library
51. “Who’s a Feed” (4)
University of Alberta Libraries
University of Kent
University of Louisville Libraries
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
University of Tennessee
52. “Who’s a Feed” (5)
University of Winnipeg
University of Windsor (Canada)
Washington & Lee Law School
Library
54. “When a Feed?”
RSS(sm): Rich Site Services
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm
eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic
Journals
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm
B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and
Monographs
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds.htm
55. RSS(sm): Rich Site Services
RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized
registry of library services that are delivered or
provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other
types of Web feeds. RSS is an initialism for
RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really S
.
57. ANNOUNCEMENTS (1)
Georgia State University Library | Science
News
Institute for Astronomy Library | Institute for
Astronomy Library Weblog
Kansas City Public Library | RSS/XML Feeds
for Your Site
Minneapolis Public Library | What's New at
the Minneapolis Public Library
61. DATABASES
ABI/InForm (ProQuest)
BaRf (Bioinformatics Aggregated RSS Feeds)
[from PubMed]
Compendex (Engineering Village 2)
HubMed: pubmed rewired: An Alternative
Interface to the PubMed Medical Literature
Database
67. INSTRUCTION
McMaster University Libraries | McMaster
Libraries RSS Feed - Instruction
University of Alberta Libraries | Library
Instruction and Training
University of Tennessee, University Libraries
| Alpha Channel: A Guide to Library
Multimedia Services for the UT Teaching &
Learning Community
71. NEW BOOKS
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology Library | HKUST Library New
Acquisitions List
University of Alberta Library | New Books by
Subject (Call Number)
University of Louisville Libraries | UofL
Libraries - RSS Feeds
76. NEW JOURNAL ISSUES
Informationszentrum Chemie Biologie
Pharmazie (Switzerland)
University of Saskatchewan Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ebling
Library
Washington & Lee Law School Library
84. REFERENCE
Eastern Michigan University, Bruce T. Halle
Library | EMU Reference Desk: Notes &
Queries
Ohio University Libraries | Business Blog
University of Winnipeg Library & Information
Services | UWinnipeg Library -> Reference
Sources
88. RESOURCE GUIDES
EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering,
Mathematics, and Computing | EEVL News
Minneapolis Public Library | New Selected
Weblinks
ResourceShelf
92. Metropolitan Library System
Acquisitions
Audio eBooks
Children services
Collection
development
Digital libraries
eBooks
Foundations
Grants
Interlibrary loan
Mailing lists
Membership
information
Readers’ Advisory
Reference services
Special programs
Statistics
Union list of serials
http://www.mls.lib.il.us/syndicate.cfm
93. eFeeds(sm)
Web Feeds from Electronic Journals
eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic
Journals is a categorized registry of electronic
journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other
Web feeds.
Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds
are categorized in a separate category.
94. B-Feeds(sm):
Web Feeds for Books and Monographs
B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and
Monographs is a categorized registry of sites
that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds,
to compilations, directories, lists, reviews, or
other relevant sources for/or about academic
or scholarly books or monographic works.
97. SUBSCRIBING TO
BIBLIOCASTING
To subscribe to the list send an e-mail
to listserv@listserv.syr.edu with the
entire message (no subject line):
subscribe bibliocasting FirstName LastName
98. Resources
RSS(sm): Rich Site Services
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm
eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic
Journals
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm
B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and
Monographs
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds.htm
General Bibliography
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm