 What is RSS?
 Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML-based format for content distribution. The University of Delaware offers an RSS feed for use in news aggregators (readers) such as Dogpile, Awasu, NewsGator. These feeds include headlines, summaries and links back to the UD Research UDaily article for the full story. RSS feeds are free; Delaware EPSCoR currently uses RSS 2.0.
RSS presents information that is encoded with XML (Extensible Markup Language), a universal format for structured documents and data that makes it easy to read by other Web sites and by these news readers. XML is becoming increasingly important, as more and more data is available to be shared on the Web.
Using the news reader program, you can subscribe to different news feeds, which are constantly updated for you, keeping you abreast of the latest news and information that you are interested in seeing. Your news reader becomes the aggregator of all of the subscriptions you’re interested in from various sites all over the Internet, such as research information, news and weather. The news reader eliminates the need for you to visit a series of your favorite Web pages and refresh them, since the program does that for you automatically.
For more information about RSS and descriptions of various news readers, read the New York Times article, "Fine-Tuning Your Filter for Online Information."
How do I access an RSS feed?
There are a number of ways to access RSS feeds. You can install a news reader that displays RSS feeds from the Web sites you select, enabling you to view hundreds of headlines at once. After installing the news reader of your choice, you can add each feed manually from the Web site by clicking on the "Subscribe" or the "XML" orange button next to the feed.
An alternative to downloading a dedicated news reader is to use a Web-based news reader. For example, Google, My Yahoo! or My AOL users can now add RSS feeds directly to their personal page, while those users of Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer have the ability to display RSS feeds directly in their browser windows automatically.
Once you have set up your news reader, simply follow the instructions for your particular news reader to subscribe to the UD News Feeds on the top right of this page and any other RSS content feeds you choose.
Terms for UD Research RSS feeds
We encourage the use of UD's Delaware EPSCoR RSS feeds for personal use in a news reader or as part of a non-commercial Web site or blog. We require proper format and attribution whenever Delaware EPSCoR content is posted on your Web site, and we reserve the right to require that you cease distributing Delaware EPSCoR content.
RSS News Aggregators
The URL for the UD Research News feed is: http://www.epscor.dbi.udel.edu/outreach/news.xml
Some RSS readers available for download can be viewed at the sites below:
RSS News Readers (Google)
RSS News Readers (Yahoo)
The Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer web browsers also have the ability to display RSS feeds.
Once you have set up your news reader, simply follow the instructions for your particular news reader to subscribe to the UD News Feeds on the top right of this page and any other RSS content feeds you choose.
If you would like to be automatically alerted of UD Research News, please sign up to the below:
Google Alerts
Yahoo Alerts
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