# Communities at the research-practice interface ("breaking the ivory tower")

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [2017年八月23日 00:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/communities-at-the-research-practice-interface-breaking-the-ivory-tower/68574 "2017-08-23T00:45:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![allu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cdc98d/32.png) [@allu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/allu)\
**Post date:** [2018年一月21日 09:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/communities-at-the-research-practice-interface-breaking-the-ivory-tower/68574/9 "2018-01-21T09:23:24Z")

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As discussed earlier, publications in the field of interest are helpful to get the discussion going. I just wanted to share a Zap which reads the RSS of a targeted search from PubMed, and publishes new articles to the forum. Here is the core of it:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/1/6112cc096ca9ff949d06b9c70b7cc6bfa2652472.png)  
As pubmed onebox rendering is now part of Discourse core, all one needs to do is to publish the pubmed link. Really sweet.

I got the idea from here:

> [@\[PAID\] Auto create new topic when I publish a video on YouTube](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-auto-create-new-topic-when-i-publish-a-video-on-youtube/67080/7):
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> Update: Got it fixed. Needed to use API key from specific user, not the general API key. To configure, click your user image in the top left, click the gear for “Preferences”, click “Admin”, and then set up an API key there. Category IDs (for specifying where the post should go) I found here: [http://mydiscourseinstallation.com/site.json](http://mydiscourseinstallation.com/site.json) Zapier setup looks like this: All other fields I could leave as they were. Works like a charm now! Thanks guys.

Super simple but very effective for my needs.

@[pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman) Thanks for your offer. I do work for this patient organization on a purely philanthropic basis, as does everyone else who works together with us. All the money we collect goes into funding research. If, at some time in the future, you would like to donate some time towards helping young people who are suffering from a disabling and presently incurable disease, please contact me. At this point we already have the forum migration covered, we are really just tweaking it now before go-live.

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