Email Subscriptions, RSS feeds, and Social Media Sharing
The FederalRegister.gov site includes tools for sharing documents with friends and communities via email notification subscriptions, RSS feeds, and Twitter and Facebook social networking applications. You also can send emails of Federal Register articles to friends and associates on a one-time basis (look for the mail graphic next to Twitter and Facebook icons).
Subscriptions: To subscribe to notifications look for the light orange “subscribe” button with the RSS and email symbols off to the right side of a page. When you click on the subscribe button, you can select from three RSS options and an email option.
Email: If you choose email for notifications, just fill in your email address and click on “subscribe.” You will immediately receive an email with a link to confirm your subscription. You can easily unsubscribe at any time with a click on “unsubscribe” in the email, and another click to confirm.
Subscription Options: You have the option of getting the Table of Contents of each day’s issue in an email or RSS notification; you can subscribe to the articles in any of our News Sections; you can subscribe to a particular agency’s documents from their Agency page; or subscribe to a particular topic from the Topics pages. In many instances, you have the option of limiting notifications to “significant” documents as defined under E.O. 12866.
Saved-Search Customized Subscriptions: You can create custom email and RSS notifications by subscribing to specific search results. For example, you may want to track Airworthiness Directives issued by the FAA. Enter “Airworthiness Directives” in the search box and click. To exclude other agencies that reference airworthiness documents, choose FAA as the agency in the left column of search results. If you only want to see proposed directives, choose “Proposed Rule” as the document type. Complete the process by clicking on “subscribe.” You will start getting notifications in your email in-box as soon as new documents become available.
RSS: When you click on "Subscribe" on various pages, you are offered a choice of RSS feeds, including Google and Yahoo. The feed will show up on your iGoogle home page, or My Yahoo page, etc.
For example, if you are interested in creating an RSS feed to receive updates on "taxes" and issues related to taxation, you can use the "browse agencies" feature to go to the Treasury Department home page (http://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/treasury-department). From there you can choose the sub-agencies you wish to subscribe to, such as the IRS, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, the Fiscal Service, etc. If you click through to those agency home pages you will find a "Subscribe" button in the upper right of pages to start an RSS feed.
You can also choose to subscribe to topical feeds from the "Browse Topics" page. For example, if you type "taxes" in the filter, you will see that there are topics on Employment taxes, Estate taxes, Excise taxes, Gift taxes, Income taxes, and Taxes (http://www.federalregister.gov/topics). If you click or one or more of those topics, you will see a "Subscribe" button in the upper right of the topic page. Click on"Subscribe" to start a feed on the chosen topic.