Feedburner

Feedburner is a tool to optimize feeds so it is a perfect tool to use to make our Pipes feed more robust. It does this by letting you assign your own name to the feed, but also by styling the feed for display in web browsers, making it easily consumed by just about any feed reader, and providing an array of subscription management and monitoring options.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/sul/chempubs

Display Using SpringWidget

SpringWidget is a partner with Feedburner, so it is a simple matter to generate a display widget. You have options of embedding the widget in your site directly as a Flash widget or you can do it via javascript. There’s no difference in how it displays but, if you use the latter method, it won’t display if javascript is disabled in your browser (nor with the other two widgets we’ve already seen). As such, it is the most robust solution of the three options and it is probably the aesthetically most interesting one as well.

Format of the items is pretty similar to how Pipes was handling them, the only addition being the inclusion of each item’s pubDate (basically the date it was indexed in Scopus).

A version of this last widget, formatted a little differently, can be found on my Chemistry Resources page. That widget is further enhanced in that it also includes subscription by email and an RSS subscription chicklet, both from FeedBurner.