PNNL RSS Feeds
The following RSS feeds are available from PNNL:
PNNL News
http://www.pnl.gov/news/rss/rss.xml
A feed of PNNL press releases and top stories from around the lab.
NEWSBridge
http://libraryweb.pnl.gov/newsbridge/rss.xml
NEWSBridge, provided by the Hanford Technical Library (HTL), delivers the latest news headlines about Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Hanford Site, DOE, and a variety of other related topics. Learn more at the HTL website.
PNNL Research Highlights
http://www.pnl.gov/science/rss/
A feed of PNNL research highlights from the Fundamental & Computational Sciences Direcorate.
About RSS Feeds
RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, is an easy way to keep up with your favorite news and information. An RSS feed contains headlines, summaries and links to full news stories. If you click an RSS link above, you will see XML (or eXtensible Markup Language) code in your browser. This is to be expected, since you do not view RSS content through a browser. You view the headlines through an RSS news reader (also called an RSS aggregator).
What are RSS Readers?
RSS news readers, or "aggregators", are small software programs that aggregate RSS feeds and display the story information. They allow you to scan headlines from hundreds of news sources in a central location. Popular RSS readers are Bloglines, SharpReader, and Google Reader.
How Do I Use These Feeds?
The first step, as described below, is to choose an RSS reader. Each reader has a slightly different way of adding a new feed (also called a "channel"). In most cases, here's how it works:
- Click on the small XML button near the channel you want (PNNL News Stories, for example). You'll see a page displaying XML code.
- From your browser, copy the URL that appears in your Address Bar. For example, the URL you would copy for PNNL News is:
- Paste that URL into the 'Add New Channel' section of the reader. You should be all set! The RSS feed will start to display and regularly update the headlines for you.
Where Do I Get an RSS Reader?
A wide range of RSS readers can be easily downloaded from the Web. Some readers are Web-based while others require you to download a small software program onto your desktop. Most are free to use.
Google and Yahoo! both offer comprehensive lists of RSS readers. A few sample readers are also offered to the right for the purpose of evaluation.