Oxford University Press Journals via RSS
December 22nd, 2004Teri Vogel points out that the Oxford University Press Journals now provide abstracts of their journals via RSS. Teri does have a valid point when she says:
“I’m delighted to see another major publisher of science journals move forward with this service, but why, why have they not put a list of the feeds on a single page? Right now, you have to go to the homepage for each journal to grab the feed, or the “content alerting” section for that particular journal (see Nucleic Acids Research). No mention of the feeds even on the main content alerting section. It’s a two-part process: offer the service, and make users aware that the service exists.”
Well said Teri. It’s all about marketing. What’s the sense of making RSS available if you don’t make it “Really Simple” to obtain the feeds.
Speaking of Teri, her library (Georgia State University Libraries), has come out with a neat Google Scholar page, which incorporates GS into the library community. This is what I mean when I say that libraries should use Google’s initiatives to market their collections. Very impressive. (link via Research Buzz)