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Using Centre for Bioscience news and events RSS feeds

What's new?

Bioscience news and events are also available using an RSS 'newsfeed' system. This enables news and events to be re-published on other sites without the local web manager having to edit their webpages. We are using our own dynamic pages to present the same news on our site but you may find it very convenient to use the UKOLN provided service to present this information on your site.

How is it done?

Bioscience news or events can be added to any website using just one line of code in the web page. Here is the example for adding Centre for Bioscience news to a web page:

<script
src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewers/rss.cgi?rss=http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/news/rss20news.aspx?newscat=bio">
</script>

Version?

The version being used here is 2.0. (However, our version 0.91 scripts are still in operation for anyone who has bookmarked them

What other 'feeds' are available?

Bioscience feeds, at present, are as follows;

Feed name Javascript insert
Bioscience news <script
src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewers/rss.cgi?rss=http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/news/rss20news.aspx?newscat=bio">
</script>
General news <script
src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewers/rss.cgi?rss=http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/news/rss20news.aspx?newscat=other">
</script>
Bioscience events <script
src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewers/rss.cgi?rss=http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/rss20events.aspx?newscat=bio">
</script>
General events <script
src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewers/rss.cgi?rss=http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/rss20events.aspx?newscat=other">
</script>
Funding deadlines <script
src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewers/rss.cgi?rss=http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/rss20deadlines.aspx">
</script>

Do I need permission to use your feed?

No, but we would consider it polite for you to inform us if you do. Contact me by email.

Can I see what it looks like?

Follow this link to an example page showing how it appears if you take the default options - further configuration is available by putting style declarations in your web pages. Note it will probably take a few seconds to render!

Where can I find out more about doing this?

UKOLN have developed a facility called RSS-xpress to help uk academia generate and display newsfeeds. Visit the RSS-xpress site for further information about using existing newsfeeds or developing your own. You can use the tools on this site to generate a simple 'static' feed (it creates the XML source structure for you to hold on your site) or just use the display cgi facility offered by UKOLN to render the page.