May 19, 2007

Journal RSS Feeds Need Abstracts!

Posted by Eric at 5:15 pm | Category: Literature, Technology

This will be a small rant.

Why don’t journals put abstracts into the RSS feeds of their table of contents? The abstracts are open to the public anyway, and it would make their feeds much more useful. Because Nature, PNAS, and other journals don’t include their full abstracts, I’m regularly subjected to the overflow of windows:

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