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E-Journal Feeds by Topic

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Looking for E-Journal Lists?

RSS feeds for 3000+ biomedical and health sciences journals grouped by topic.

Subscribe to the Current Issue Journal Feed:
The rss feed image next to each title provides a link to the news feed for each journal.

View the Current Issue Table of Contents:
Click TABLE OF CONTENTS to view titles, article summaries, and article links.

E-Journal Feeds A-Z

Looking for E-Journal Lists?

A-Z list of RSS Feeds for 3000+ biomedical and health sciences journals.

Subscribe to the Current Issue Journal Feed:
The rss feed image next to each title provides a link to the feed for each journal. Copy the link and add it to your newsreader.

View the Current Issue Table of Contents:
Click TABLE OF CONTENTS to view titles, article summaries, and article links.

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RSS News Feeds

General and Topic Based RSS News Feeds

Subscribe to the News Feed:
The rss feed image next to each title provides a link to the feed. Copy the link and add it to your newsreader.

Preview the Feed:
Click the hyperlinked news feed title below to view headlines, dates of publication, summaries, and a direct link to the news article itself.

What is RSS and Why Should I Care?

RSS can save you time and hassle by letting you keep current with your professional reading conveniently and easily.

Imagine a Table of Contents service where you can quickly scan the contents of any number of the latest journals at your convenience and with no nagging e-mail clutter. When you come across an article you'd like to read, full-text is available at your fingertips. Updates on literature searches and news can be automatically sent to your reader for you to peruse at your leisure.

Getting started with RSS is easier than you might think, and is likely to become an indispensable tool for keeping you current and saving you time.

For assistance in getting started with RSS, contact your Library Liaison or Ask a Librarian.

RSS Videos

RSS Overview
A practical introduction to RSS developed for Ebling's health sciences audience.

RSS in Plain English
This overview is as relevant as it is irreverent.

Where do I get a Reader?

There are a wide variety of RSS readers to choose from, from stand-alone desktop applications to web-based applications to built-in browser and email-based solution. A large selection of RSS readers can be found at RSS Compendium - NewsReaders.

Here are some of our favorites:

  • Google Reader is a very powerful browser-based feed reader that offers the additional advantage of integration with other Google applications and services, such as Google Personalized.
  • Bloglines is one of the most popular and widely known of the web-based readers.
  • Thunderbird Email client has built-in RSS support. Each new feed item is received much like an email message.
  • AmphetaDesk is a very robust desktop-based application.
  • Firefox (v. 1.5+) and Internet Explorer (v.7) both offer built-in RSS support.

How Do I Find RSS Feeds?

Browser Autodiscovery
There are browser add-ons that can alert you when you're on a site that offers a feed and allow you to subscribe via your choice of reader. Recent releases of Internet Explorer and Firefox both offer built-in automatic subscription options that appear if you click on a feed link.

Feed Images
If you see this icon rss in your address window after the site url, or in a web page, that indicates the site offers a feed. example rss iconexample rss icon are also commonly used to indicate a feed link. Here's a few more you may see.

Journal Table of Contents Feeds

Increasingly,vendors and publishers are providing feeds for their titles, but they are far from universally available and aren't always easy to find.

RSS & OPML for Journals

rss Indvidual Journals

We've collected feeds for over 2400 health sciences journals. If you've got a particular journal title your'e looking for, try our comprehensive alphabetical list of feeds. If you want to see what's available on a particular topic, try our feed listing by subject.

opml Journal Topic Bundles

While you can always subscribe to feeds one by one, now you have the option to subscribe to groups of feeds (everything in a category or top picks by journal impact factor) simply by downloading and importing a small file into your feed reader. You'll find these OPML files in our listing of feeds by subject.

Health News Feeds

There are a great many sites that list news (and blog) feeds by topic. We recommend:

Medworm
RSS for Medics
Medscape Headlines

If you are looking for a feed for a particular resource or topic, simply searching Google using the name of the resource or topic of interest and "RSS" or "Feed" may lead you directly to what you are looking for.

Advanced RSS

Once you've started using feeds you may find you want them to do a little more work for you. Feed readers like Google Reader have many features built in, but if you need something beyond that try these:

FeedRinse - allows you to combine and filter feeds, then export them for yourself or others to use

FreeMyFeed - allows you to free your feed from authentication or invalid SSL certificates to get them into a reader

Yahoo Pipes - allows you to do just about anything imaginable with feeds, all in a GUI environment

FriendFeed - lets you combine friends' feeds from common services like Twitter, YouTube and Flickr all in one place

FeedBurner - lets you publish feeds you've created for easy use by others, plus built-in usage statistics

Page last updated: July 2, 2009 Questions or suggestions? Contact Rebecca Holz