Last week, I mentioned that May 1st was RSS Awareness Day and that RSS can be a really useful tool for keeping up-to-date.
This week, I’d like to mention a few specific RSS feeds and lists of feeds which should be of interest. A growing number of websites are offering RSS feeds, through which it’s possible to keep up-to-date with various kinds of things, as you can see from the list below. This is only a selection of feeds, biased to science & engineering, and there are many more. Our About RSS page gives more information on how to use these feeds, and in each issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter I highlight a few feeds in the Blogorama section.
Academic events
Eventseer.net – the academic events tracker
EPSRC Events
Funding opportunity news
COS Funding opportunities
NERC Funding and research news
EPSRC Calls for Proposals
RDFunding: UK and European Funding Opportunities
Calls for Papers
WikiCFP (A place to organise and share Calls for Papers)
Patents
Popular US patents
Notable patent applications
News from engineering professional societies
Scholarly journals
Recent documents in The Berkeley Electronic Press
Computer Science updates on arXiv.org
Press releases
Alphagalileo RSS channel
European Science Foundation – Global news
Teaching & Learning resources
The Higher Education Academy Materials Subject Centre New Resources Channel
Most Recent Materials In MERLOT Engineering
News and magazines
UCSD list of sources in science and engineering
If you’d like help with RSS, contact one of the Subject Librarians.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
