[Web4lib] RSS feeds from Proquest databases

[Michael McCulley]

Jay,

The actual feeds for their first effort, ABI/INFORM, lives on this page (see
below). More or less "proof of concept," as some librarian-related blogs
have noted.
http://www.proquest.com/proquest/rss/rss.shtml

It's got the RSS feed links on that page, for example,
http://rss.proquest.com/rss/cmf/abi/Marketing_Advertising.xml
Marketing > Advertising.

Check it out, let us know how it works. The feeds can be read by an
aggregator, it appears, but I don't know what the links would do (didn't
test it..) IF you don't subscribe to ABI/INFORM.

Best,
DrWeb

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Monday, September 05, 2005 4:26:50 PM 
 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
>[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jay Bhatt
>Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 3:59 PM
>To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Web4lib] RSS feeds from Proquest databases
>
>Hi all,
> According to the site, 
>http://www.proquest.com/proquest/rss/
> "ProQuest is one of the first aggregators to utilize RSS 
>feeds. It is an 
>easy way for customers to create valuable, in-context links to their 
>ProQuest subscription content."
> Feeds from ABI/INFORM Set up RSS Feeds for ABI/INFORM
>Content<http://www.proquest.com/proquest/rss/>
> I tried to search in ABI/INFORM to see how I can get RSS 
>feeds of my query.
>  14 documents found for: (group dynamics) AND (organization 
>behavior)  
><javascript:launchAlertPopup();>
>About<javascript:helpWindow("/i-std/en/abi/alerts/alerts.htm");>
>
>Only thing I could find was the information setting up alerts. 
>Nothing about 
>the RSS URL that would give me the feed of new results in ny 
>feed reader or 
>bloglines account.
> I was wondering if anyone has been receiving RSS feeds from 
>any Proquest 
>databases.
> Thanks very much,
>Jay
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