A service offered to Eastern University's faculty members to help them optimize accessing and organizing their information sources.

1. FACULTY RSS SERVICE
The latest information delivered to your inbox
Andrea D. Reed, Media & Digital Librarian
Warner Memorial Library, Eastern University

2. What it offers…
• Saves time
• Delivers the latest research on a topic
• Manages your popular searches
• Simplifies your sources for information

3. What is an RSS feed?
• An RSS feed is
– an XML file that
– “disseminates real-time information
– via a subscription on the Internet”
(Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English)
• In other words…
– every time site content is updated, you get a
notification.

4. How the service works
• First we take your
– frequently read (electronic) journals and
– commonly searched for topics
• Then we combined them into two RSS feeds
• Finally, we subscribe you to these feeds using
an email address of your choice (eastern.edu,
hotmail.com, yahoo.com, gmail.com, etc.)

5. What to expect
• Shortly after you are subscribed to the feeds,
you will begin receiving emails anytime new
information is posted to your selected
electronic journal(s), and/or search(es)
– For example, when a new issue or new article
becomes available
• The email will contain ONLY hyperlinks to this
updated content, not the articles
– Does not take up space in your email account

6. Examples
Search alerts created in the following
databases:
•EbscoHost, WilsonWeb, ProQuest, etc.
E-journals: New Media & Society
Milton Quarterly
Annals of Applied Biology
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Psychology and aging
etc.

7. Results
• Personalized
RSS feeds
AND
• Email
subscriptions

8. Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact:
Andrea Reed
Media & Digital Librarian
Warner Library
610.225.5004
areed@eastern.edu