RSS feeds for Zootaxa
In trying to stay afloat up-to-date on the scientific papers in my areas of interest I find that Table of Contents (TOCs) e-mail alerts and RSS feeds offered by the journal publishers are all I need (well, that and a lot of time to read through all those papers, take some notes and sort them out into my nifty digital filing system).
Now, all the journals I want to keep track off offer TOCs e-mail alerts or RSS feeds but one: Zootaxa. This journal not only moves fast as part of its editorial policy but also publishes a lot of papers on ants. I was growing so annoyed by not having a RSS feed for this journal that a couple of weeks ago I contacted chief editor Zhi-Qiang Zhang to demand beg suggest such service. His kind reply was that they know they need to do it, they don’t know how to do it, and their staff is currently so loaded with publishing work that they don’t have the time to do it. But he would welcome any suggestions.
I, unfortunately, don’t know how to implemented this either, but cybertaxonomist Rod Page from the University of Glasgow does. He just set up a page where you can subscribe to a RSS feed for Zootaxa for your taxon of interest.
The timing was coincidence– he just happens to be working on some projects that need such feeds. If you follow iPhylo or any of Page’s blogs you know it took him one coffee break to build.
Thank you Rod.
May 12, 2009