Earlier this week I got a mailing from EBSCO in which they claimed they were re-launching RSS alerts for searches. I tried to follow their instructions but had no success, and assumed this must be a feature we had to manually enable in our admin module, but Ken Varnum at RSS4Lib pointed out that the feature was accessed from a different location entirely.
Here’s a blurry 3-minute screencast on how to activate this feature:
And here’s a link to a nicer-quality version of the screencast.
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Screencasts for RSS Feeds in Ebsco
Paul Distant Librarian Pival has posted a YouTube video and a better quality screencast on how to find the RSS feeds now available on Ebscohost. The problem with posting a screencast on YouTube is that it is hard to read the text on the s…
Paul: When I “subscribed” to the link, using Google Reader, the last 10 items(articles) were displayed. So, I am not sure if it has to deal with certain aggregators ???
It took me a while to find it, too! I did discover that when combined with our proxy info, the RSS feed URL invalidates in most RSS readers. The “plain” version worked fine, but not the proxy modified one. Some RSS readers are pickier than others, but this is a major problem–at least as bad as having to reselect it from New Features every time. (By the way, I tried doing it while logged into MyEBSCO, too, and it won’t stay there, either.)
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