Resources of the Week: RSS Fishing Holes
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
Gotta love RSS. Why hop around all over the Web to get the information you need when you can subscribe to feeds and have the information come to you? Without clogging your e-mail inbox. In this round-up -- which is totally subjective -- we're including a number of international sources. If you have favorite RSS fishing holes of your own, please share them with us.
Academia
+ Peterson's College and University Feed Directory: Very comprehensive. Categories include: Admissions, Alumni, Blogs, Calendars, Faculty and Staff, Human Resources and Employment, Journals and Publications, Libraries-General, Libraries-New Acquisitions, News, Non-RSS Links, Podcasts, Research Centers, Schools and Programs, Sports, Students, Technology.
Goverment
+ US Government RSS Library: Categories include: Business and Economics; Consumer; Defense and International Relations; Education and Employment; Environment, Energy and Agriculture; Family, Home and Community; Health; Public Safety and Law; Reference and General Government; Science and Technology.
+ Stateline.org RSS Feeds: By state or issue. Also, current news/headlines.
International Focus
+ Government Central: RSS Feeds for Government Agencies: Metasite categories include: Australian Government; Europe Government; Tribal; United Nations; U.S. Government; Canadian Government; Military; UK Government; U.S. Courts; U.S. State Government.
+ Government of Canada Newsroom: Choose Your News: "The Government of Canada Newsroom offers you numerous RSS news feeds. Each news item includes the headline or title, a summary of the news article and a link to the full text document found on the Newsroom Web site." Besides the general regional and national feeds, you can browse for feeds by province, audience (very cool alphabetical list, from Aboriginal peoples to Youth), or department/agency.
+ CBC/Radio-Canada: Nice directory of feeds by category. (Hockey fans may be interested in the Stanley Cup 2007 feed, which is featured at the top, in the Current Events section).
+ globeandmail.com RSS News Feeds: "Globeandmail.com now offers more than a hundred RSS feeds for news, columnists, and reader comments. As well, our blogs each have their own feeds."
+ INTUTE: RSS News Channels: INTUTE is a free online service "created by a network of UK universities and partners" to provide "access to the very best Web resources for education and research." Subscribe to feeds in specific subject areas of interest; the content may also be used on websites. The Social Sciences blog newsfeed regularly includes information on new UK government publications.
+ News Feeds from the BBC: The page does a good job of explaining RSS and feed aggregators/readers. Includes video RSS feeds, and there is also a link to BBC podcasts.
+ EUROPA Rapid Syndication: European Commission press release RSS feeds. Get them all or choose from various "political domains" (e.g., Transport, Information Society and Media, etc.), speeches by commissioners, or documents from individual European Institutions (e.g., European Investment Bank, Eurostat, etc.).
+ RSS Feeds from the UN News Service: "The UN News Centre provides a feed for top headlines, as well as feeds for news organized by subject and region."
+ World Bank: B-SPAN RSS Feeds" B-SPAN is the World Bank's webcasting service. Available feeds are arranged by topic, alphabetically. Podcasts are also available.
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