Keeping up to date with the relevant literature: 'really simple syndication'- (RSS) -feeds within PubMed
Leclercq, E.; Kremer, L.C.M.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 152(4): 221-224
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162 PMID: 18320950 Document Number: 617731
For clinicians, researchers and policy makers in healthcare, it is important to keep up to date with the newest medical-scientific information. The large amount of new information makes this a difficult task. There are various techniques for keeping up to date, for instance reading systematic reviews, searching the literature at regular intervals oneself, and using the e-mail alerting services of, for example, PubMed. A new possibility is to be alerted to new scientific publications, for example, via a 'really simple syndication' (RSS)-feed. This option is now also made available by PubMed. In addition to PubMed, many other websites can now be searched systematically for new information by a RSS reader. With RSS feeds the user can be alerted to new information much faster than by an e-mail alerting service, so that one can anticipate new developments more rapidly.