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New e-journals by RSS: a page for your subject…

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…whether the subject is food or finance, or – in theory – any keyword you want, you can filter the RSS feed of new e-journals by constructing a link that looks like this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=mDjFxR1R3hGHC2SH0z6skA&Subject=XXXXXXXXX Where “XXXXXXXXX” is your subject word. That link creates html which you could link to within Blackboard (see illustration below – [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

June 4th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

Mashed Library ’08 – proper writeup

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I promised to turn my as-it-happened notes from last week’s Mashed Library event into a proper, readable account of the day. A few other attendees have already written up their respective ‘takes’, including Tony Hirst, Paul Walk, Jo Alcock and organiser Owen Stephens, to whom credit is due. Here’s my effort… The day started interestingly [...]