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How to keep yourself up-to-date in medicine?

The amount of medical information is growing rapidly online and it's getting harder to keep yourself up-to-date in your field. We help you save time and effort.

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Step 6: How to follow a medical journal?



Step by step through an example


Now you know plenty of tools with which you can follow your journals and sites more easily, you also know what RSS is about and what kind of aggregators you can use so it's time to see a specific example about how to follow a particular journal. Let's subscribe to the RSS feed of the New England Journal of Medicine.



Always look for the RSS logo.

Click on Article feeds:



Choose what kind of articles you would like to follow (most viewed, most cited, current ones, etc.) and click on its link.



It's your choice whether to use iGoogle, My Yahoo, Bloglines or other services; or you can insert the url of the newly created RSS feed into your feedreader. This time I will insert the link of feed into Feeddemon. So copy the link:



Click on the Subscribe button in your feed reader tool, insert the link and click on next or ok. It means it is now added to the list of journals you follow. You let the information come to you automatically.


What to do if a journal doesn't have RSS?


  1. Go to Pubmed and click on "Limits":



  2. In the second menu (Search by Journal), enter the name of the journal you would like to follow.

  3. Click "Go"

  4. In the drop-down menu on the right, go to "Send to" and select "RSS feed"



  5. Select how many items you want to see in the feed.

  6. Click "Create feed"



  7. Under the XML button, you can get your RSS feed link that you can insert now into your feed reader.


How to keep yourself up-to-date in medicine?

The amount of medical information is growing rapidly online and it's getting harder to keep yourself up-to-date in your field. We help you save time and effort.

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