Feed URLs
[As at 17 July,] DrugData Update’s feed is:
Copyright
© Drugscope 2005 – 2007
These feeds are provided principally to keep individuals up-to-date with new acquisitions to DrugData and select other activities in the Information and Library Service.
You may use an RSS or other aggregator to access DrugData Update.
If you wish to use DrugData Update or its feeds for any other purpose (e.g. website syndication), permission can be sought from our webmaster: webmaster@drugscope.org.uk
An Introduction to Newsfeeds
Because DrugData Update has been created as a blog, it can be delivered to you in several ways:
An Introduction to Aggregators
Many people use aggregators (”readers”) to collect information from the websites they visit regularly. This saves them time, since they only need to visit one website to see ‘what’s new’ on all their favourite sites.
Many free aggregators are available. These are just a few:
You can find others via Google or other search engines.
On each of these sites, you need to register and then “add” the sites you want to your list of “subscriptions.” This is a one-off activity – once you’ve added a site to your subscription list, new additions to it will be notified to your aggregator’s site automatically.
Some of these sites (e.g. Bloglines) allow you to set up an email account to which you can have any email newsletters sent. This saves your email inbox being filled with email notifications, and means that you can check one site to see ‘what’s new’ at all the places in which you are interested.
If you prefer to receive e-mail notification of new posts, some aggregators (e.g. NewsGator) will create an e-mail of new additions to the sites you have selected. At the moment, there is usually a charge for this facility.
Some aggregators (e.g. Bloglines) can provide you with a piece of software that you can download to your computer to notify you when new additions are made to the sites you have selected (e.g. on Bloglines this is called Bloglines Notifier).
More Information
Feeds and their technology are developing all the time. For example, it is possible to read XML feeds (such as http://feeds.feedburner.com/DrugdataUpdate) on mobile devices (such as phones and Blackberries).
This is just a small selection of articles to get you started if you are new to feeds and their readers:
Anne Bailey
Information Officer – Cataloguing and Indexing
originally posted at Friday, September 30, 2005
DrugData Feed
