1. RSS FEEDS FOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP
All info on Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS

2. 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

5. Types of Feeds Law Journals – Contents or Full Text SSRN Author Feeds
Court Cases
Blogs
Tags from Social Bookmarking Sites

6. How to Find Feeds
See Law Library Site>Faculty Services>Scholarship Technology>RSS
The url is

11. RSS vs. Other Current Awareness
Use in addition to, not instead of others
Others=Lexis & Westlaw Saved Searches, SSRN s, Washington & Lee CLJC s, 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)

12. 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

13. Thunderbird RSS Reader
Does not give first paragraph of text
Has filtering options
Conveniently with

18. Filtering on Bloglines
Easy way is via Feed Sifter

23. Futher topics
Send an RSS feed to
Creating an RSS feed