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RSS Feeds

RSS feeds allow you to keep up to date with you favourite websites in an automated way. Examples where you might find RSS feeds useful include bringing together the latest tables of contents (TOCs) for your favourite journals, updates on your saved database searches or news updates from news websites and professional or trade association websites.

Why use RSS feeds?

  • It is not necessary to register separately at numerous sites;
  • Your feeds are brought together in a single place distinct from your e-mail account;
  • Your RSS reader will indicate whenever you have unread feeds available;
  • You can look at your feeds whenever you like;
  • The feeds have links directly to the item(s) on the host website, including to article level on TOCs;
  • It is easy to unsubscribe from an RSS feed

How can I read RSS feeds?

Internet Explorer version 7 includes RSS feed functionality. However, due to technical issues the RSS functionality is not available on University PCs.

Alternatively you can

or

It will then be possible to subscribe to your chosen RSS feeds. Look out for the standard icon Atom icon, or sometimes XML icon or RSS icon . Right-click on the icon or RSS link, copy the shortcut or link location and paste it into your RSS reader.

The browser Mozilla Firefox also includes RSS feed functionality.

RSS feeds for your favourite journals

Search Ulrich’s Web to locate RSS feeds for your favourite journals

Using Advanced Search: search by title keyword, subject, etc. limiting your search to journals with RSS Available.

The URL for the feed(s) are available on the Abstracting / Indexing & Article Access tab of the journal records.

The following sites provide RSS feeds:

Atypon Link
BioMed Central
BMJ Journals
CALIBER - University of California Press
Cambridge Journals Online
Emerald
Haworth Press
HeinOnline
HighWire Press
IEEE Xplore
Ingenta Connect
Institute of Physics
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
MIT Press
New Scientist
Oxford University Press
PsycARTICLES
SAGE Publications
ScienceDirect
Springer
Taylor & Francis informaworld
University of Chicago Press
Wiley InterScience
Zetoc

Databases - saved searches:

EBSCOhost databases (Academic Search Complete; British Nursing Index; Business Source Complete; Cinahl, Communication & Mass Media Complete; Global Health; Hospitality & Tourism Complete; PsycArticles; PsycBooks; PsycInfo; Social Work Abstracts; SportDiscus)

Engineering Village 2

Repositories:

arXiv - e-print archive for Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics

Bournemouth University Research Online [BURO]

Theses:

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

E-mail us if you have any suggestions of sites that could be added to the lists above.

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