OvidSP RSS Tutorial
From the Yale University School of Medicine’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library comes a nice screencast tutorial on generating search-based RSS feeds from OvidSP.
You can download the tutorial (mp4) or watch the streaming version.
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February 18th, 2008 at 5:51 am
[...] Hat tip: David Rothman [...]
February 20th, 2008 at 1:32 am
[...] February 20, 2008 in 2.0 tools, hlis2.0, training by gillianwood Tags: clients, OvidSP, rss feeds This is a topic that has been revisited on and off around the medical library world since the introduction of OvidSP. The Krafty Librarian and OMG Tuna is a Kewel have made some pertinent remarks, which I’ve been intereseted in, but never had time to follow up properly. Today, prompted by the training video that David Rothman linked to, I decided to see what really was happening with RSS feeds. The answer (for me) is Not Enough. I also get feeds from Pubmed, and like that they show the full citation, as it appears in their citation display, complete with authors, citations, related links, and a link to full text, if it exists. In Ovid you only get Title and Abstract, and there’s not even any identification of items which are not in English. I haven’t dug around and looked at Ebsco’s yet, but that’s next on my list. [...]