KACST Launches “Academic News Service”
Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, KACST President, recently inaugurated the Academic News Portal that allows the academic community to review new academic news and activities that are of common-interest easily and conveniently.
This service is operated using RSS technology. The project of Academic News Portal is characterized by the easy access of researchers and interested people to news items and stories in a simple and easy manner as news are classified in the following manner: News, Activities, Exhibitions, Conferences and Symposia besides their being of a unified format and are regularly updated.
KACST invited the academic institutions to collaborate in feeding the portal with their news and activates. The manger of media center in the concerned academic institution, or who acts on his behalf, transmits news items or activities via a control panel allocated to this academic institution. This control panel enables KACST’s media coordinator to add subdivisions with classified assorted news stories or items that appear under the title of this academic institution or enrolled under the classification allocated to such news items.
As for KACST duties, it avails the portal to all academic institutions with no distinction whichever, unless there is an out-of-control fault or shortcoming caused by another party for whom KACST is not liable. KACST reserves itself the right to modify the service as it deems appropriate and without any previous notes.
KACST called upon those who wish to subscribe in this service, to enquire about it, or to have more information to visit the electronic site: khabar.edu.sa
RSS service is a free technology that has become widespread lately to diffuse news, activities and articles in the form of FEEDS in which visitors participate; Feeds comprise the title, synopsis and a link. Feeds can be read by using most new browsers such as Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, other browsers, using emails such as Outlook and the others, or by using special programs for reading RSS.