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By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:12:41 +0000

Hello Bangali-

If you’re using a stand-alone aggregator, you just paste the same RSS URL into the field where it requests the feed URL. If you want to know how to accomplish this with a particular Windows stand-alone aggregator, I’d be pleased to give more specifics.

Best,

-David

By: Bangali

Bangali — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:01:04 +0000

Hi,

Excellent article. What about using non-web aggregators such as Feedemon etc.

Regards,

By: Matt L

Matt L — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:47:27 +0000

Thanks for the article. I’m trying to monitor several topics on a constant basis, and would like to only see new articles as they’re released (e.g. all articles published today on anthrax) but the NCBI RSS options only let me limit by date ranges or by last 30 days. any ideas how to get around this restriction ?

Please email me back if possible.

Thanks very much -
Matt

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:09:17 +0000

Oops! Almost missed Hope’s question. Hope, the answer is YES. All you have to do is do a BLANK search, but choose the journal in the LIMITS tab. Let me know if this isn’t clear, and I’ll do a short post on it with screen captures.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:16:41 +0000

Halyna-

At present, I only reccommend web-based aggregators, mostly because I want to offer the service of pre-configuring aggregators for my library’s users (more on that in a future post). Also, I want to be able to troubleshoot problems that my library’s users might have with aggregators, and I can’t really be up-to-date on ALL the alternatives (the list of options is only going to grow in the foreseeable future), so I usually reccommend BlogLines or Google Reader.

I think Google Reader is a good option if the user has only a few feeds to manage because it isreasonably easy to learn and easy to use.

If the user plans on subscribing to more than a handful of feeds, I reccommend BlogLines.

Whichever you reccommend, be sure to get familiar with the aggregator(s) yourself, and to offer the residents some hands-on training.

I also try to inform users that the selection of an aggregator is NOT permanent. Both of these web-based aggregators import and export OPML files, so one can quickly switch from one to the other.

Please let me know what kind of successes and/or challenges you encounter as you offer this service to your residents- I’d love to record your experiences and opinions on this blog for others to benefit from.

You are welcome to email me: david AT gmail DOT com.

Thanks for writing!

By: Halyna Liszczynskyj

Halyna Liszczynskyj — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:43:23 +0000

Interesting .. Going to try this with my Medical Residents.

Which RSS reader are you recommending to your people?

By: Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:19:07 +0000

Can you make RSS feeds of the tables of contents of certain journals, such as Elsevier journals even though Elsevier doesn’t itself offer them?

By: Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:15:12 +0000

This looks very useful!! I am going to print it out and try to master the lessons therein. Thank you for your service to the cause of medical librarianship.