Monday 21 October 2013

Thing 11: Adding RSS feeds to NHS My Library



After completing Thing 11, you will have:
practised using  NHS My Library as an RSS feed reader

Why use My Library as a feed reader when I’ve just set up ProtoPage?

Because: 
  • My Library will save you a little bit of time, and will make it even easier to find new content from your feeds.
  • It emails you to show you the latest updates from your RSS feeds; you can click on the link to the new content directly from the email.
  • We can show our readers how to set up RSS feeds to MyLibrary.

Step-by-step instructions:
·         Go to www.evidence.nhs.uk ; click on the ‘Journals and databases’ tab.
·         Click on ‘Sign-in to NHS Athens’ and enter your Athens login and password.
·         Scroll down the page, on the left under the heading ‘Your Health Information Resources’ you will find the link:
My Library – access your links, alerts and library information
Click on the link to open the page
Now we can start adding our chosen feeds. 
ProTipIgnore the invitation to ‘Select your favourite updates from our feeds library’ as it does not work .

·         Open another browser window and find the site you are interested in.  I’m using this as an example – it’s a really interesting blog by library marketing guru Ned Potter, a subject librarian from York University.
·         
 There is a little orange RSS icon on the right-hand side 
fof the page, where it says ‘Subscribe’;
hover over it with your cursor, and you will see this:


·         My Library isn’t one of the feed readers listed in the box, but that doesn’t matter; just click on the top left-hand link – the one which says ‘Feed’.
·         This will give you the URL for the blog feed – copy this from the address bar at the top of the screen.
·         Back in your My Library window, click on the  Add feed button; paste the URL you have just copied into the box, and give the feed a name, like this:

Click the ‘Add Feed’ link under the URL box and you will get a message saying that your feed has been successfully added to My Library.


You can then tell My Library how often you would like to receive an update email, and where to send it to:



Here are some more feeds for you to practice with - some are health library type ones for resources which might help with your own CPD; others are feeds to which we might like to suggest to some of our readers:

Health Information and Libraries Journal – this will give you a ‘table of contents’ feed;
-       Click on the ‘Get RSS feed’ link on the left-hand side of the screen; copy the URL of the feed and add it to your My Library feeds.

Behind the Headlines – a discussion, via NHS Choices, of the evidence behind health related news stories. 
-       Look for the RSS link on the left; copy the URL and add to your My Library feeds.

The Learning Disabilities Elf – a good current awareness feed for healthcare staff working with people with learning disabilities:
-       Look for the RSS icon on the right-hand side. Don’t worry that the screen just shows a load of code when you click the icon – copy the URL, add it to your My Library feeds and your updates will read just as they do on the LD Elf home page.  Trust me J

The RCN news feeds - a range of national, regional and subject-specific nursing feeds.
-       Look for the RSS icon on the right-hand side; once you have clicked it, you can choose which feed(s) you want



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