What is RSS?
RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) is a web technology that allows a users to keep track of updated content from their favourite websites.
You may subscribe for free to the UCL News feed, or to a variety of subject-specific UCL News feeds. By using a News Reader or a browser that supports RSS (see ‘News Reading Software’, below), you can be alerted to the latest news items as they are published on the UCL website.
To subscribe to a news feed, copy its URL (web address) into the reader or click on the ‘RSS’ button in the right-hand column and either view the feed in your browser or import it into a News Reader (see ‘News Reading Software’, below).
Note for WTS Users: Members of the UCL Community who are using WTS (Windows Terminal Service) should use the Firefox browser to subscribe to live feeds using Firefox’s ‘live bookmarks’ feature (see ‘Web Browsers’, below). A useful tutorial on how to subscribe to an RSS feed using Firefox can be found here.
UCL News Feeds
Feeds available include:
- Main UCL News: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/rss
- Announcements: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/announcements_viewer/rss
- Features: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/features_viewer/rss
- UCL Bookshelf: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/bookshelf/rss
Faculty News
The UCL News RSS feed has also been segmented by faculty:
- UCL Arts & Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/art_and_human_viewer/rss
- UCL Built Environment: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/built_env_viewer/rss
- UCL Biomedical Sciences: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/clinical_sci_viewer/rss
- UCL Engineering Sciences: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/eng_sci_viewer/rss
- UCL Laws: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/laws_viewer/rss
- UCL Life Sciences: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/life_sci_viewer/rss
- UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/maths_and_phys_sci_viewer/rss
- UCL Social & Historical Sciences: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/soc_and_hist_sci_viewer/rss
News by Topic
- President and Provost: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/provost/rss
- Environment: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/environment-viewer/rss
- Global Health: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/global-health-viewer/rss
- Neuroscience: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/neuroscience-viewer/rss
- UCL Centre for Stem Cells http://www.ucl.ac.uk/stemcells/News/news-viewer/rss
- Research: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/research-viewer/rss
- Students: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/parents-viewer/rss
News Reading Software
Below are examples of news readers that are available for download from the web. For a more comprehensive listing, click here
PC Windows
Mac OSX
Windows/Mac/Linux
Web-based Readers
Works in your web browser
Web Browsers
Internet Explorer Users
Internet Explorer 7 is the first version of Microsoft’s browser to support RSS. Details are available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/tour/rss/
Firefox Users
Users of the Firefox browser can obtain RSS feeds as ‘live bookmarks’. More details are available from the Firefox website at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html
The latest version of Firefox - Firefox 2.0 can also be integrated with other web-based readers such as Google Reader.
Other Browsers
Click on the links below for information on RSS support in other browsers:
