Objective: To create an RSS current awareness service. Delivery and promotion of the service to include web-based and in-person components.
Methods/Description: Increasingly, journal vendors are making content available via RSS feeds, but barriers still exist between the user and the content. Inspired by the FeedNavigator, a project of the National Library of Health Sciences-Terko, we set out to develop a tool that would allow our patrons to easily locate and subscribe to journal feeds. Using a blog and a wiki for staff communication and project management respectively, we created tools that allowed the 6 members of our group to quickly capture and classify feeds for over 1,900 journals. Journal feeds are now available from our site, individually and in bundled, exportable packages (OPML files). Users can locate feeds alphabetically or by subject and can preview tables of contents before subscribing to a feed. Comprehensive bundles of feeds are offered along with select bundles of "best bets" titles.