{"title":"Really Simple Syndication (RSS) - Still Really Simple and Really Useful.","authors":"Esther Garcia, Lisa Zarrella","doi":"10.1080/02763869.2025.2499854","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This column reintroduces Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS feeds offer a structured way to receive updates from journals, databases like PubMed and Ovid, and websites. Librarians and researchers can use it to keep track of field trends and facilitate discipline awareness. This overview covers how to retrieve RSS feeds, store them in Outlook and web-based readers, and best practices. Use cases for librarians and challenges are also included.</p>","PeriodicalId":39720,"journal":{"name":"Medical Reference Services Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical Reference Services Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2025.2499854","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This column reintroduces Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS feeds offer a structured way to receive updates from journals, databases like PubMed and Ovid, and websites. Librarians and researchers can use it to keep track of field trends and facilitate discipline awareness. This overview covers how to retrieve RSS feeds, store them in Outlook and web-based readers, and best practices. Use cases for librarians and challenges are also included.
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This highly acclaimed, peer-reviewed journal is an essential working tool for medical and health sciences librarians. For those professionals who provide reference and public services to health sciences personnel in clinical, educational, or research settings, Medical Reference Services Quarterly covers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health. This exciting and comprehensive resource regularly publishes brief practice-oriented articles relating to medical reference services, with an emphasis on user education, database searching, and electronic information. Two columns feature the Internet and informatics education.