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Google Alerts are Now RSS-Enabled

Google has finally made Google Alerts available via RSS. Just as with email alerts, you can enter search terms and select parts of the web to monitor (news, blogs, web, groups, video) or go for the whole shebang with a...

Posted by Ken Varnum on December 4, 2008 9:47 AM

EUFeeds -- 300 European Newspapers by RSS

EUFeeds is a special-purpose RSS aggregator for European newspapers that provides access to more than 300 papers from the European Union. Provided by the European Journalism Centre in the Netherlands, this site lets you quickly browse the print media from...

Posted by Ken Varnum on March 19, 2008 8:32 AM

EBSCO and RSS Alerts

Paul Pival learned something interesting about EBSCO, EZProxy, and RSS feeds: if you don't edit your EZProxy configuration just so, RSS alerts for saved searches in EBSCO databases get rewritten to pass through your library's proxy server. And if that...

Posted by Ken Varnum on December 5, 2007 11:13 AM

ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents

I read in this week's FreePint Newsletter about a grant-funded project called "ticTOCs. This a tool to bring journal tables of contents (the TOCs) from multiple publishers to patrons through an interface as simple as ticking off a series of...

Posted by Ken Varnum on July 25, 2007 2:30 PM

EBSCOhost Update

I received an email today from Kathleen McEvoy at EBSCO Publishing in response to my post on Friday about EBSCOhost's new RSS features. She explained that the way I thought the RSS feed should work -- a view echoed by...

Posted by Ken Varnum on April 30, 2007 1:18 PM