RSS Services

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a medium for the rebroadcasting of updated website contents (portals, blogs, online database alerts, etc.) by subscribers; i.e. by notifying that a website has been updated and allowing the corresponding news to be read. In short, RSS is a service that helps you keep up to date with subjects that interest you and decide which channels to subscribe to free of charge, so saving you time (you will no longer have to browse or search through dozens of websites as the information will come direct to you).

Thanks to RSS aggregators, you can receive abstracts of all the websites that interest you. For example, for the Library's new RSS features, we provide holders with a brief abstract and the link to the complete text of the Library's new features: news stories of interest, new bibliographical features and certain advice and recommendations about the Library.

To be able to receive regular news from the websites you have subscribed to, simply use an RSS reader or aggregator, which will allow you to organise and access quickly access all the news stories on configured sites in the system which support RSS from a web interface. Some of these readers are included directly in internet search engines (Opera, Firefox, I Explorer) and all you have to do is click on the orange icon on the address toolbar (Firefox) or the explorer icon (IE). Others function using an independent application from the desktop on your operating system and, lastly, there is an RSS channel website reading service (e.g. Bloglines or Google Reader).

There are many readers on the market, some of them free, and for all types of platforms. We recommend that you conduct an internet search, or consult the resources chosen by the Library in an up-to-date summary of RSS, and download the one that best suits your needs.

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