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Hacking our EPrints RSS feed to create author publication lists (slight return)

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Joss Winn from the University’s Centre for Educational Research & Development has already explained how to generate some code which creates a dynamic list of an author’s publications, drawing on an RSS feed of items in our Repository, for embedding in another webpage (e.g.  a staff profile page on the University’s website). (Upfront, I’ll say [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

March 3rd, 2010 at 2:38 pm

A-to-Z tweak: magazines from Google books

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Yesterday, I spotted (thanks @calire) that Google books have created a page that lets you browse their available magazine titles. I can’t resist a free journal. So I copied-&-pasted the entire page into MS Excel, used a handy function to extract the underlying URLs from the hyperlinked titles, did a bit of search-&-replace to make [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

November 11th, 2009 at 11:49 am