EBSCO RSS Success?
There was some discussion on Information Wants To Be Free last week about difficulty in getting results from RSS feeds for keyword searches in EBSCO databases. I followed the somewhat confusing instructions and set up a feed yesterday for "podcast* AND librar*" in Academic Search Premier since I was looking for articles for a bibliography. I added said feed to Bloglines and this morning I had article links! I must have set it up to run every day since they were all the same articles I looked at yesterday, but I did manage to get results.
Wish I had some sort of magic tip to report, but I have no idea why it worked for me and not others. Of course it could have just been a fluke too. I guess the real test will be to see if I ever get any new articles.
posted by David @ 8:58 AM
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David, when you get a chance, could you post the feed that was generated so I can check it against what I got, and also so I can plug it in to my aggregator to see if it works there?
Hey Paul - In SF and just checking blog. Heres he feed link. I actually had 2 new items when I checked Bloglines just now. See you in Monterey.
http://rss.epnet.com/AlertSyndicationService/Syndication.asmx/GetFeed?guid=793505
Thanks David, I finally got mine to work too - seems it doesn't do anything until a day passes and the search is run within the database, which is counter to every other RSS feed I've plugged in to my aggregator. I guess I expect to see something right away to verify that it's working!!!
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