Setting up an RSS feed from a search in EBSCOhost

Here is a short presentation I created, demonstrating step by step how to generate an RSS feed from one of your searches in EBSCOhost.
This will enable you to stay up-to-date with your field by receiving alerts whenever a new article is published that corresponds to a search that you've set up.

Don't know what we're talking about? Check out the following links to learn what RSS feeds are and how to use them.

How to generate an RSS feed from your search in EbscoHost from iSkillsTav

 

Ideas for feeds to add to your RSS reader

Now that you know what RSS feeds are and that you have an account on an RSS reader, I wanted to give you ideas of sites and blogs you could add to your reader.

Can't remember how to add feeds to your RSS reader? Check out this post!

So, here is a (non-exhaustive!) list of interesting websites and blogs about psychology and psychological therapies.

• The Mental Elf: Reliable mental health research, policy and guidance.
• CPR Journal: The BACP's counselling and psychotherapy research journal that links research with practice.
• The Freud Museum: The museum's events, exhibitions, conferences, education & research.
• Psychology today: the website from the magazine of the same name.
• The National Institute of Mental Health: a leading agency dedicated to mental health research.
• Wiley Psychology: to keep up with all of their new psychology titles.
• The British Psychological Society: latest news, research, and conferences.
• BPS Research Digest: latest psychology research by the British Psychological Society.
• British Journal of Psychology: never miss any of their new issues!
• Psychology Press: recent news in psychology.
• The National Autistic Society: leading UK charity for people with autism.
• American Psychological Association: they have many different blogs that you can follow.

Of course, you should add to that list the library's blog, and, well, this very blog too!
Also, don't forget to follow the library's subject guides for your topic.
And you could also add those websites about the literature review.

If you have other ideas, add them in the comments!

Setting up your RSS reader, step by step

So, you now know what an RSS reader is and why you should use it. If you don't, check out this post!

This time, I want to show you how to set up your first feeds in your new RSS reader. I will take the example of Feedly (but you can use any of the other ones on the market!).

Follow this step by step tutorial and add all of your favourite websites to your reader!

Then tell me about it and ask me your questions in the comments.

What are RSS feeds exactly?

As explained in my New Year post, I'm going to talk a lot about RSS feeds this year.

Way too many students and researchers don't know what RSS feeds are or how to use them and this must change!

So, what are RSS feeds? Here is a short video that explains it quite well:

For those of you who'd rather read the explanation rather than watch a video, let me sum up what it says.

You probably have several websites you enjoy visiting on a regular basis. To know if something new was published on one of them, you go and visit each of them one by one.
With RSS feeds, you collect all of this new information in one spot.

RSS means "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary". It allows you to subscribe to a variety of content over the Web. To do that, you set up a feed reader (like Feedly or The Old Reader for example). To subscribe to your content, you can use the RSS button you found on your favourite website (the orange thing on the left). Or you can subscribe automatically by doing a search in your RSS reader.

Once you've subscribed to a website's feed, your reader will automatically grab any new information that is published and display it for you.
You can also easily unsubscribe from any feed you're not happy with.


Next time, I will show you exactly how to do that with an example.
But for now, do you have any questions? Write them in the comments below and I will be very pleased to answer you!

Happy New Year!

 

I wish you all a very happy new year!
May it be filled with projects, success and joy!

As for this blog, I wish this year to convert all of you to the use of RSS feeds. They are incredibly useful but, every time I ask around who know about them during training sessions, the only answer I get is resounding silence... So it's time to change this!
Throughout the term, I will be publishing articles explaining to you exactly what they are, why you should use them and how. And I predict that your whole world will be changed... Well, as far as your information skills go at least!

So, once again, I send you my best wishes for 2015. And I will see you next week for our first post about RSS feeds...



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