An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a method used on the web to syndicate information from a site into one gathering place known as an aggregator. This place can be a website, your email, or your desktop.
Receiving web feeds in an aggregator eliminates surfing through several websites regularly, eliminates the possibility of receiving "spam" in your email when you sign up for email updates, and has more conveniences.
Aggregators
Bloglines is a highly recommended aggregator for many reasons. It is free, easy to use, and, since it is web-based, can be retrieved from any place you can get online. Bloglines also give you the ability to save an article or entry of interest indefinitely, or email that article directly to a collegue.
Getting Feeds
The feeds provided on the subject list are derrived from the journal and website collections of the Ryan Memorial Library of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. Copy and paste the subscription address given into Bloglines to receive the information described.
If you wish to search for more feeds there are search engines
that you can use. RSSfeeds.com
is a growing database of available academic feeds. You can browse the database
by topic or perform a search for a topic of interes. If you have a site
you wish to feed into Bloglines, or some other aggregator, look to see if
it has a feed. This is sometimes indicated by the following symbols: 
and 
. There may simply
be a text link somewhere on the site that says "RSS Feed." Click
on the link and use the address that appears in your browser's address bar.
This is the subscription address you will need to copy and paste into Bloglines
or any other aggregator you use.