VLSCI - News Subscriptions

Subscribing to VLSCI News

The VLSCI News is published in three formats, the website, an email list, and a RSS news feed, so you can choose which format you prefer. The same news will be posted in each format at the same time.

Website News

You are welcome to browse the news from the VLSCI Home page at any time. Of course, this requires you to keep visiting the site regularly to get timely updates. If you want news sent to you, either the email list or the RSS News feed will do the job for you.

Email List

You can receive timely updates from the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative via email. The name of the list is:

vlsci-news

All you have to do is subscribe to our list using these instructions.

Visit the VLSCI News adminsitration website¹

Fill in the form information in the section titled Subscribing to VLSCI-news. The information required of you is your email address (where you want to receive the news), your name, and a password so that you can confirm it is really you when subscribing or unsubscribing

Click on the subscribe button

You will receive a message in the email box you specified asking you if you really want to subscribe. You will need to follow the instructions in the verification email, and click on the verification link it provides in order to finalise your subscription

You may unsubcribe at any time by visiting the VLSCI News adminsitration website¹ and fill in the details in the section marked VLSCI-news Subscribers

Enjoy keeping up to date with the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative!

1. The email list and adminsitrative interface are kindly provided to the VLSCI by the ARCS (Australian Research Collaboration Service ) Data Fabric as part of their aim to enable and enhance research through the provision of long-term eResearch support, services and tools.

RSS News feed from the VLSCI

What are news feeds?

How can I use them?

How do I get a news reader?

Can I use these feeds on my site?

What are News Feeds?

News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and video in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.

Feeds are also known as RSS. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.

How do I start using feeds?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.

Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to simply visit the VLSCI website and you will notice an orange button on the right hand side of the news list.

If you click on the orange RSS button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. Most sites that offer feeds use a similar orange button, but some may just have a normal web link.

Some web browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites.