I recently discovered RSS feeds. And I don’t think there’s any going back… Also learned about new ways to set alerts. I spent a lot of time setting all that up, so I’m going to let the video me talk it out…
And here are some links if you want to try it out
for alerts:
note: you can usually use +, and/or etc. & use an asterisk * if you want everything starting with something, like ribosom* if you want ribosome and ribosomal
- PubCrawler: https://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
- bioRxiv alerts: https://www.biorxiv.org/alertsrss or on individual articles
- Google alerts: https://www.google.com/alerts
for RSS feeds:
you can find them on most websites, and on blogs you can put in the website and then/feed, like “https://thebumblingbiochemist.com/feed” if you want to add my blog posts to your stream
I really like being able to make custom feeds of PubMed searches – you’ll see the option next to the option to get alerts
here are a couple of the other feed sources I mentioned in the video:
- bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/alertsrss (they also have Twitter channels listed on the various topics)
- Nature: https://www.nature.com/nature/browse-subjects
- and use https://www.nature.com/subjects/TERMYOUWANT.rss for search terms
those things will give you urls you can add to your
RSS readers: these have free versions & premium versions with various functionalities and on-the-go apps. I’m still scouting things out
- Newsblur: https://newsblur.com/
- Feedly: https://feedly.com/
- The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/
- Inoreader: https://www.inoreader.com/
more on finding and organizing papers: https://bit.ly/organizing_papers
more about reference management: https://bit.ly/referencesreference
more about reading scientific papers: https://bit.ly/readingsciencearticlesadvice
