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Staying Ahead: Keeping current in your research using RSS feeds

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How to use RSS:

• get table of contents from new journals issues as they are released
• view new journal articles on a specific topic from various databases
• obtain news updates on general topics in science and other fields from Google, New York Times and BBC, among others
• learn when a specific topic is being discussed on blogs

Popular RSS readers:

• web-based readers include: Google Reader, Bloglines, My Yahoo, Netvibes
• you can also view them in your browser with Firefox live bookmarks or in your favorites in Internet Explorer

Useful RSS feeds:

• AMS- alerts for table of contents in each journal title, as well as top viewed articles
• Newsfeeds for Nature magazine
• Feeds for Science Magazine
• International Journal of Remote Sensing
• Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Tellus A and Tellus B
• Betty Petersen Memorial Library News
• Betty Petersen Memorial Library New Books and Acquisitions
• NOAA News Releases

Database Search Alerts:

• Web of Science- first save your search, then click on xml button
• Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)- under “search tools”

Blogs:

• Enter your search terms in Technorati.com and then click “subscribe” in the upper right corner
• For individual blogs, just look for “subscribe to this feed” or orange XML or RSS button

News:

• Run your search in Google News then click on RSS or Atom to subscribe to the news feed for that search.

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