RSS feeds

RSS feeds are a convenient way of keeping yourself updated with new information from websites and other online resources where the content regularly changes. They are typically used for keeping up with newspaper headlines or blog postings but they also allow you to receive journal contents pages or updates of new content from your database searches. The advantage of receiving your alerts as rss feeds rather than email is that it brings all of them together in one place where you can check for new any new content of interest at a convenient time.


Any of these distinctive orange icons indicates that a feed is available. By clicking on the icon you will be invited to subscribe to the feed.





Both the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox browsers have in-built rss functionality through Favorites (IE7) or Live Bookmarks.


Using IE7 simply click on Subscribe to this feed




Simply save the feed in the Feeds folder












Using Mozilla Firefox you can use Live Bookmarks to subscribe to feeds.

An alternative method is to use a "feed reader" like Google Reader or Netvibes. You will need to create an account but a reader of this sort will allow you to handle a large number of feeds and also to access them from any computer. Most regular users of rss do so through a reader rather than simply using browser functionality.

For assistance consult your liaison librarian.