SCHOOL OF LAW

News & Events RSS Feed

Subscribe and never miss UT Law news highlights and event notices! Our feed will help keep you informed about what is going on in the UT Law community.

URL: http://www.utexas.edu/law/rss/

What’s an RSS feed?

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”, an easy way to receive a website’s latest content without having to visit the site directly. Using a software program called a feed reader, you can subscribe to feeds provided by sites ranging from major news organizations to personal blogs. The feed reader downloads the latest headlines from the sites that you subscribe to, presenting them as a nicely aggregated list, making it possible to skim quickly through the headlines to find items that are of interest to you.

How do I get started?

• First you’ll need to have a feed reader:
  • There are web-based aggregators (popular ones include Google Reader and Bloglines).
  • There are ones that run on your personal computer (FeedDemon and FeedReader are popular choices for Windows users, and NetNewsWire is the top choice for Macintosh OS X users, and all three are free at this time). Many other great aggregator programs are available, however, and many of them are free or available for other systems such as the Blackberry handheld or for use on Linux (see News on Feeds’ list of aggregators)!
  • Your web browser may already have built-in handling of RSS feeds:
    • Mozilla Firefox has a feature known as "Live Bookmarks"
    • Apple’s Safari browser allows you to read RSS feeds directly
    • Microsoft’s Internet Explorer features native support for RSS as well.
  • Next, you’ll need to add the feed’s address to your subscription list. Whichever feed reader you pick, it should have an option named something like “Add a Feed by URL” or “Manually Add a Feed”. This function allows you to specify the address of a feed that you’d like added to your subscription list.
    
    Two ways to subscribe to the UT Law news feed:
    • Simply cut-and-paste our feed’s URL (http://www.utexas.edu/law/rss/) into the “Add a Feed by URL” box in your reader program.
    • Or, you can right-click (Mac users: option-click) on the RSS graphic at the top of this page, and choose ‘Copy Shortcut’ or ‘Copy Link Location’. Paste the URL into the “Add a Feed by URL” box in your reader program (many sites only have an RSS or XML graphic button for their feeds, so it’s handy to know how to do this!).
  • Our RSS feed contains the latest headlines and links from our Recent News & Events page, and is updated whenever a new article is posted there by our Communications team. Enjoy!

  Feeds from the Tarlton Law Library

  • Actual Innocence Awareness Database:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/innocence/rss.cfm

  • Current Copyright Literature:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/copyright/rss.cfm

  • Current Capital Punishment Legal Literature:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/punishment/rss.cfm

  • Current Domestic Violence Legal Literature:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/domestic/rss.cfm

  • Current Energy Law Literature:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/energy/rss.cfm

  • Current Patent Literature:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/patent/rss.cfm

  • Current Trademark Literature:
    

    http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/trademark/rss.cfm

  For more information:

  • Wikipedia’s entry on RSS
  • Google search for ’RSS’