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http://www.biojournals.com

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2005 18:55:24 -0400

Bio Journals .com doesn't advertise the fact, but each of their search results pages has an RSS feed associated with it that tracks the latest journals in that area! It's brilliant for keeping up to date.

push vs pull

chris — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:59:03 -0400

You might be right there. Journals are usually either weekly, fortnightly, or monthly (or less frequent), and polling continuously for tocs is overkill. However, it may be the best way of getting advance online published article notifications, through something like BaRf if the journal itself doesn't have a separate feed.

hubmed

chris — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:49:42 -0400

I get my standard Pubmed searches in RSS through Hubmed. After searching, the orange "Feeds" button in the uppper righthand corner will take you to the appropriate pages; once you drop the RSS feed address into your aggregator (are they still called that, or is there a nom du jour?), it will poll Hubmed and update your search as appropriate. You can, of course, also generate the query URL on the fly.

One limitation of this atm is that only the first 20 hits are returned, so although you build up a comprehensive search feed over time, it's effectively limited by the date you start. A workaround I've discussed with Alf, the brains behind Hubmed, is to use the Pubmed Eutils to retrieve the original query as XML, which you can then convert to RSS with, for instance, an XSLT stylesheet or perl script. Given I know nothing about RSS syntax though, I haven't done this yet. Any gurus in the wings willing to take the challenge?

desktop aggregators

chris — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:40:14 -0400

Or you could use any one of a host of others, either web- or desktop-based...

Liferea is my personal choice.

science news feed

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:57:10 -0400

Hope it's okay to re-post this Greg it is admittedly rather self-promostional, but I reckon the articles will be of general interest.

Anyway, my science news site now has its own RSS feed:

http://www.sciencebase.com/sciencebase.xml

It links to articles on the main site (generally chemistry) and related webzines to which I contribute.

On a more general finding rss feeds note:
UKOLN RSS xpress looks as good a place to start as any -
Thanks

David Bradley Science Writer

Complete is good

Neil — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:49:19 -0400

Yup, CompleteRSS is pretty complete.

I guess by "relevant and comprehensive" I was thinking journal contents. I agree that as contents update infrequently, a lot of feeds just sit in the reader for days/weeks, but personally I find this preferable to sifting through my inbox contents. IngentaConnect is not my cup of tea (fortunately our uni actually appears to be subscribed).

As for anything Yahoo, I suspect you won't get much sympathy for that point of view round here! If you want RSS on a website and run a server, I quite like Booby, a sort of online PIM. Evolution is also an option, though I don't like Evolution much (mainly because I like my email separate from other things).

Ingenta

alf — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:10:36 -0400

Have you had a look at IngentaConnect?

They provide RSS feeds of all journals in their database, but the feeds only include new issues, not tables of contents.

Personally, I'm not sure RSS (pull) is necessarily the right place for journal updates though - email (push) seems better, especially when updates arrive quite infrequently.

Why not Yahoo!!?

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:07:31 -0400

If you already use My Yahoo, it's easy to add all the RSS feeds you want to your front page (as long as you don't want more than 50).

Even if you don't already use My Yahoo, it's still easy ;-)

Knock yourself out...

Greg — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:29:13 -0400

Sure:

I should also point out that nodalpoint has had an RSS feed for over four years now. I also recommend Bloglines if you need an excellent web based (free) RSS agregator (other suggestions ?). And I'm also not surprised that most biologists have no clue about RSS, but lets not get onto the nodalpoint permathread "biologists have no clue".

RSS feeds from journals and science news sites

Neil — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:24:00 -0400

This is probably old news for many here, but I just discovered a list of BioMed Central RSS feeds. It includes a range of journals and news sources (including my favourite, The Scientist). Surely all journals should provide their current contents as RSS? Nature does, Science doesn't so far as I can tell. It's a great way to quickly check the latest publications, in a news reader or on your website. I was about to say that I'm amazed how few biologists are aware of RSS...but actually, I'm not surprised at all. Anyone know any other comprehensive, relevant RSS listings?