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Keep up with research

What is RSS and why should I use it?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way for you to keep up with news and information that’s important to you, and helps you avoid the conventional methods of browsing or searching for information on websites. The content you want can be delivered directly to you without cluttering your inbox with e-mail messages. This content is called a “feed.” RSS is written in the Internet coding language known as XML (eXtensible Markup Language), which is why you see RSS buttons commonly labeled with these icons: XML language icon rss

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Some RSS Readers

RSS Reader for an iPad

An RSS reader / News Aggregator allows you to easily view new content from multiple web sites in a single interface. This new content may include:

  • tables of contents from new issues of journals
  • new articles on a specific topic from many journals and specialized databases (Scholars Portal, Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus etc)
  • new books in YUL
  • news in science, technology, business, health, etc. from Google, New York Times, BBC, etc.

Steps to follow to subscribe to RSS feeds for online journals, databases, new books, and new e-resources at YUL:

  1. Subscribing to RSS feed for scholarly journals using JournalTOCs (RSS feeds for 19,300 scholarly journals  from 1,122 publishers)
  2. Subscribing to RSS feed for specific databases:
  3. Some databases offering the ability to create RSS Feeds
  4. RSS Feed for New books at York University Libraries
  5. RSS Feed for New Resources at YUL

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