Pipes and Current Awareness

Many journal publishers now make RSS feeds available from their websites. These feeds are made available in slightly different ways across publishers. Here are a few examples:

Informaworld provides feeds for subject clusters of titles, such as "Business & Management" and "Economics".

Sage offers pre-set clusters at the title level for "current issue", "recent issues", "most frequently read articles" and "most frequently cited articles".

Emerald offers Table of Content feeds for some of their titles, and a general feed of recent publications across all titles.

Tools like Pipes can be used to 'rewire the web' and customize the aggregated output of content published online, from blogs to journals. A basic example of how you can do this is to "create a pipe" to "fetch feeds" and then "filter" them for the presence or absence of keywords, and "output" matching citations to either the Pipes display page or your preferred rss feed reader, or embed it in your own site.

You can also share, copy and adapt pipes that other people may have created. You can search for pipes because they have been tagged - e.g. at time of writing 13 pipes have been tagged with "academic" and "libraries".

fyi, I'll be taking a closer look at this at NCSULA's Cool Tools in March.