As many of you know I am investigating how to give patrons a very simple way to get the table of contents (full text links to our journals or our ILL form) emailed or to their feed reader. It has to be SIMPLE, so that my 5 year old could understand how to do it. While I have been looking into that problem, I ran across a blog entry about RSS feeds, Ebsco databases, and EZProxy.

If you are having problems with setting up your RSS feeds of Ebsco databases for off campus use, you might want to check out EZProxy configuration. According to the RSS4Lib blog, "if you don't edit your EZProxy configuration just so, RSS alerts for saved searches in Ebsco database get rewritten to pass through library's proxy server. And if that happens, off campus users (including Bloglines or Google Reader) can't get to the RSS feed."

Don't despair, RSS4Lib directs you to the Distant Librarian for instructions on how to resolve this problem.