RSS, Federated Search/Library Portal, and OpenURL

I've been asked to take part in a session presenting on how RSS might be used in conjunction with an OpenURL link server (SFX), and a federated search and library portal product (MetaLib).

I'm putting my first ideas down here, but if anyone has other ideas, it would be great to hear about them...

• Recently received journals list from a library system with links to OpenURL to provide fulltext or ToC links as available (I've already done this one)
  
• Search results via RSS
  
• New resources added to Portal
  
• Portal displays RSS feeds from other sources

I'm sure there must be more potential than this, but so far that's what I've come up with - I'll add more if/as I get more ideas (either my own, or contributed by others)

Comments

[Josie Fraser]

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[Roddy MacLeod]

There are some ideas on RSS use in libraries in Ian Winship's article in this month's Update http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/may04/article2may.html Also, WRT your TOC link to OpenURL - couldn't full journal TOCs themselves be linked in such a way? A growing number of journals publishers are producing TOCs in RSS.

Roddy

[Owen Stephens]

With the ToC service, the RSS I'm producing reflects serial issues we have received in the library - so in a sense, the primary point of this is to let users know what we've received - not to provide a ToC service.

The fact that we can then provide links to Full-Text or ToC seems like a nice touch, but was an afterthought in a way - I needed to put somekind of link in the RSS feed, and a ToC link seemed more useful than (for example) a link into the library catalogue to the record for the journal.

[Sharif]

Hi,
I ran into this post from a google search. Have you done anything else with this? We are currently using SFX and would like to try to provide rss feed. I would appreciate some pointers. Thanks.

--Sharif
University of Illinois