Comments on: How To: Create an RSS Feed for a Feedless Journal with PubMed

By: davidrothman.net » Favorite RSS Resources and Tools

davidrothman.net » Favorite RSS Resources and Tools — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:36:15 +0000

[...] How To: Create an RSS Feed for a Feedless Journal with PubMed [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:31:22 +0000

I’ve used feed43.com for a few journals/sites:

http://www.feed43.com/ann-intern-med.xml
http://www.feed43.com/attract.xml

Martin

By: PabloG » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-12

PabloG » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-12 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:22:49 +0000

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By: davidrothman.net » Blog Archive » How to: Create a PubMed RSS Feed for 30 Journals

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:12:26 +0000

[...] Then follow the instructions on generating a feed that were detailed in this previous post. [...]

By: David Schad

David Schad — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:46:17 +0000

Well you got me on this one, David, I have somehow misplaced the e mail. We have an old, virtually unsearchable e mail system here. Sorry.

We only have one supported browser here, guess which one. The powers that be have magnanimously deigned to allow me (and I assume others) to use other browsers until they muck up the network. I’m not worried.

I rarely promote, but Opera is worth a try; when the procrustean policy makers relent, I mean. The next iteration of IE will have some type of RSS integration, but I still think it’s polishing poop.

By: mbach

mbach — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:14:03 +0000

Thanks this was very illuminating. I had been using FeedYes and other services to scrape content out. This makes my life a great deal easier.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:43:07 +0000

Sorry, poor writing. I wrote:
“Also, I think it is important to let them know which ones I know well…”,

To clarify: “them”=”users.”

Sorry for the confusion.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:33:45 +0000

Hi Mr. Schad! (Please forgive the formality of addressing you by your surname, done only to prevent potential confusion about who is addressing whom.)

I have absolutely nothing against using browser-based readers, be they in IE7, Firefox, Flock, or Opera. I don’t use them myself because I want to have the same interface at work as I have at home, and security policies at my place of employment prevent me from using any browser other than IE.

Also, I think it is important to let them know which ones I know well, so that they can consider the likely level of support from my library when they choose their own reader.

Mr. Schad, might you be willing to send me the instructions that PubMed sent to you so that I can compare them to mine and make sure I didn’t miss something that they covered?

Thanks for writing!

By: David Schad

David Schad — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:22:28 +0000

David,
Kudos! Thanks for the delay test.
I queried the nice folks at PubMed months ago on this very subject and they were kind enough to give me directions not unlike yours.
I know you find the use of myriad readers to be a less than optimal way of working. Still, I must recommend Opera and its integrated reader. Opera’s configurability is well nigh incredible and it is standards compliant to boot. It makes RSS really simple, see? Oh, and to those new to the alternative browser world, it is free. I like all the browsers out there, even IE, but I could never be without Opera.