Monday, March 10, 2008

RSS Feeds at Kiwano HSL

Welcome to the Kiwano Librarian blog!

The Kiwano Health Sciences Library website links to many useful RSS feeds (including one for this blog). We emphasize RSS feeds for the major medical journals, but we welcome your suggestions for adding to the virtual collection.

Our librarians have embraced RSS feeds as a replacement for clunky table-of-contents services and email alerts. My favorite reader is Bloglines, but there are lots of alternatives. I'll leave that for another post. Try subscribing to NEJM or The Lancet, just two among the very many journals with RSS feeds.

For faculty & staff: Our librarians can customize PubMed searches and easily create an RSS feed for articles relevant to your research interests.

Didn't know this was an option? It's a great alternative to those email alerts clogging up your inbox.


For students: Stop by in person, email the library, or use our IM service to ask a reference librarian for help in setting up your own PubMed feed.

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