RSS: Keeping Up with Research 

1. Look for an orange button on a web site such as or or
2. In Firefox, when a feed is available this button should appear next to the URL in the location bar.
3. Search Google - ex: search "nature RSS"
4. Search within Google Reader or Bloglines for feeds other users are reading.

MIT Libraries Feeds

• Recent Additions to the Collections: new books by subject; also music CDs and DVDs
• MIT Libraries News: book sales, classes, author readings, new resources and more
• MIT Theses in DSpace: look for feeds on the main page and on the pages for specific departments/communities

Other MIT Feeds

• IS&T News Feeds
• MIT News: by research area from MIT News Office
• MIT World: videos of MIT public events
  
• Stellar Course Management System: feeds from course pages
• TechTV: MIT community-created videos
• Technology Review

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The home page of a journal will often list a feed for the tables of contents; publishers will often have a page listing RSS feeds for all of their journals.

• AIP
• APA (click on "View Table of Contents" to get feed)
• APS
• Biomed Central Journals
• IEEE (click on title)
• IoP
• Nature Journals
• Oxford University Press (RSS feed on homepage of each journal)
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Project Muse
• Science
• and many more...

Feeds are often available on most journals' home pages - use Vera to find journals you are interested in.

Search these databases to find literature on your topic from journals, conferences, etc.; you can save the search as an RSS feed and have any new items that match your search appear in your reader (there is also usually an email option).

• EBSCO: includes Business Source Complete and Econlit
• ISI Web of Knowledge: includes Web of Science, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index (see ISI RSS FAQ)
• Engineering Village: includes Compendex, Inspec, NTIS (go to Help > RSS for instructions)
• ProQuest : including ProQuest Research Library and ABI/Inform Global
• PubMed: see instructions on using RSS feeds in PubMed

CiteULike: web site where academics (individuals or groups) can share papers, books, etc. they are reading; get feeds for new items added by individuals, groups or by topic

Patents:

• patents.com: query-based, look for on search results page
• freepatentsonline.com: pre-set feeds
• Google Patents: query-based (but Google Patents is not updated very frequently)