RSS information

What are RSS feeds?

RSS stands for "RDF Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication". It provides a mechanism to subscribe to "headlines" from a web site.

What information is available via RSS?

The RSS feeds provide the latest news concerning ICSU or its key partners. If you wish to view the full text of any article listed in the RSS feed, simply click on the article's link to the online journal site.

How do I use an RSS feed?

Two options are available tomake use of this service:

1. You can use a piece of software known as an RSS Reader or Aggregator. This automatically gathers RSS feeds from all of your selected online publications, and makes them available to you on your desktop.
2. Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, have functionality which automatically picks up RSS feeds for you. For more details on these, please check their websites
   Firfox: More details on this excellent browser can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks

As new issues are published on the "Latest News" page of our website, the RSS Reader will automatically download details via RSS and will alert you that a new issue is available online.

RSS feed for ICSU "Latest news": http://www.icsu.org/rss/rss.xml

More information and links to download free RSS Readers are available at Wikipedia.org and Google.com

Why do I see "code" when I click on the RSS link?

RSS is an established standard which uses XML to mark up the content feed. This is designed to be viewed using a special RSS Reader or compatible browser. Viewing an RSS page in a standard internet browser will therefore show you the tagged data in a "raw" format.

These RSS feeds are in the RSS 1.0 format. See http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html for a detailed specification.