The Medical Librarian Maven, discusses her methods for adding RSS links to her electronic journals. While time consuming it was actually an easy process. She added the RSS feed as a custom link to the journal record in EBSCO AtoZ. Hmmm that sounds pretty good, and I suspect it would work with other similar systems like Serials Solutions. Ooooh wouldn't it be nice if EBSCO, Serials Solutions, etc. could do this automatically like they already do with the URLs to the journals.

What would be really cool is if you could add the RSS feed to the journal from the aggregator that you get full text from. For example, if you get the full text to a LWW title you could add Ovid's RSS feed of that journal to the list. I think you might be able to do that with PubMed. You could create the RSS feed for a specific journal (that you get from an aggregator) and place that feed into your AtoZ list (or simliar product). When the user can then use the RSS feed and be directed to the PubMed page listing the articles for that issue which also contains the library's LinkOut icon. Of course the user would have to remember to go beyond his/her feed reader when looking at the citations so that they could get the correct LinkOut icon.

Am I completely off base with this? While I used Serials Solutions at my previous library that was before RSS feeds became popular and my current library doesn't have a link resolver program yet (we will get one).