Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Just what are RSS feeds?







RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary and is a technology designed to help you keep up with updates to your favourite websites. RSS allows you to check for new updates to a site without having to visit the site.

You will need either to download RSS feed reader software or to register with a web-based service like Google Reader or Bloglines. Users of FireFox can subscribe to feeds using Live Bookmarks while Internet Explorer 7 has RSS feed capability built in.

You can now use RSS feeds to check out the latest additions to the Library Catalogue in Business and Management.

Click on the link below to subscribe to the new books feed:
New Business Books

Then, every week when the new books list is populated, you’ll receive a list of them (linked to the Library Catalogue) in your feed reading software.

There are many other RSS feeds available, on any site where you see the RSS icon or XML button you should be able to subscribe to a feed.
Keep an eye out for feeds in the contents pages of your favourite journal and on the Library databases.

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