RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP

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RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP

• All info on Law Library SitegtFaculty
  ServicesgtScholarship TechnologygtRSS
• http//www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/services/rss
  .html

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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

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Types of Feeds

• Law Journals Contents or Full Text
• SSRN Author Feeds
• Court Cases
• Blogs
• Tags from Social Bookmarking Sites

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How to Find Feeds

• See Law Library SitegtFaculty ServicesgtScholarship
  TechnologygtRSS
• The url is http//www.law.csuohio.edu/lawlibrary/s
  ervices/rss.htmlfinding

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RSS vs. Other Current Awareness

• Use in addition to, not instead of others
• OthersLexis 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)

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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

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Thunderbird RSS Reader

• Does not give first paragraph of text
• Has filtering options
• Conveniently with Email

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Filtering on Bloglines

• Easy way is via Feed Sifter

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Futher topics

• Send an RSS feed to Email
• Creating an RSS feed