June 14, 2005 09:04 PM
How-to: RSS feeds for medical journals
I've received some nice feedback from my previous post with RSS links to medical journals. So here goes a quick tutorial on how to get RSS links using Pubmed:
1) Go to www.pubmed.com
2) Click on "limits"
3) In the first drop-down menu (All fields), select "Journal"
4) In the search area, enter the name of the journal you're looking for
5) Click "go"
6) In the drop-down menus right above the search results, go to the one that reads "send to" and select "RSS feed"
7) Automatically it will take you to another page with configuration details about the feed you are about to create
8) Select 50 as the number of items in the feed, so if the journal publishes more than the default 15 items you won't miss any
9) click "create feed"
10) Your link for the RSS feed is ready, under the XML button !
Go to your favorite RSS aggregator and enjoy not having to bother about all those e-mail notifications.
Posted by leo at June 14, 2005 09:04 PM
Thanks! Great info and extremely useful!
Posted by: Palmdoc at June 16, 2005 06:05 PM
Alternatively, if you want to use RSS for particular search strings regardless of the journal, try HubMed (www.hubmed.org).
When the search results are presented, there will be a "feeds" link to click and then choose between Atom and RSS.
They also have a bookmarklet for the toolbar and other tools.
Posted by: John at June 21, 2005 09:26 AM
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