EBSCOhost and ScienceDirect Blocking RSS re-syndication?
A friend who is a medical librarian emailed me. She writes:
“I’ve been setting up local RSS pages with Feedburner [for email distribution] and Feed2JS [for dislaying the content of feeds on Web pages] for our most popular journals, to allow for TOCs.
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It seems the publishers have gotten wise to this and are not allowing their feeds to be resyndicated. It started with EbscoHost — I noticed their feeds never seemed to refresh themselves (which totally defeats the purpose of having a feed). Now it seems ScienceDirect is also blocking re-syndication. FeedBurner can’t pick up the feeds; Feed2JS gives an error, yet the feed validator says it’s a valid feed. SD is providing it’s own source-code to paste into local web pages, but it takes so long to load the page that it invariably times out = useless.
Just wondering if you’ve heard of this from anyone else…”
I don’t use either one of these, so I haven’t seen this problem. Has anyone else? Please let us know in the comments?
