RSS News Feeds

Introduction to RSS

RSS* is an XML-based format designed for publishing news and messages. In order to use RSS, a special NewsReader software must be installed, which allows subscriptions to news channels. The NewsReader automatically downloads the new messages of subscribed channels at regular intervals. Unread messages are mostly displayed in bold, whereas the read messages in normal script. This means that you stay on top of your interests.

For Windows we recommend the following NewsReaders: Awasu Personal Edition (free), FeedDemon (shareware) oder SharpReader (free); for Mac OS X: NetNewsWire Lite (free). In some browsers such as Mozilla FireFox, Internet Explorer 7, and Apple Safari 2.0 the RSS facility is inbuilt.

RSS news feeds are represented by the following symbols:

Various browsers indicate by the following symbols if a web site offers RSS feeds:

• Mozilla Firefox: Live Bookmark (in status bar, right lower corner)
• Safari: (in address bar, right of the URL)

How to use RSS

Step-by-step instructions

RSS news feeds offered

Information Center Notices

Enter the following link in your NewsReader: http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/fmi/xsl/news_en.xsl

Recommended update frequency: Hourly.

Online journals : Articles

Article feeds of publishers are marked with a blue icon. They can be found by searching our list of online journals or by this list of journals with article feeds. There are no user restrictions. However, access to the article content is only possible if your university or documentation service has subscribed to the online journal.

Recommended update frequency: Every 4 hours.

New acquisitions

Enter the following link in your NewsReader: http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/fmi/xsl/acquisitions_rss_en.xsl

Recommended update frequency: Every 4 hours.

Technical details

All news feeds authored by the Information Center are created as XML stream by our library management system CLICAPS, which are then transformed in RSS 1.0 format by using XSLT. To minimize network load, the news are downloaded only when the changes occur.

*RSS: RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication