What is RSS?
Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (
) feeds allow quick scanning of the latest headlines from hundreds of Web sites in a spam free environment. Icons represented by 
or 
indicate that online information such as news items, table of contents, short summaries, or links to full-text articles can be automatically delivered via subscription to your personal news reader.
How do I subscribe to Feeds?
- Set up a special reader or aggregator for your feeds.
Go to dmoz: RSS News Readers for a complete list of readers.
Some browsers offer integrated readers such as Safari and Mozilla Foxfire.
RSSReader is a Microsoft Windows reader.
There are web-based readers such as Bloglines, My Yahoo! and NewsGator. - Find content with the or
icon. See the chart below for some initial suggestions. - Follow the instructions at the site for creating or copying the url into your reader.
Capable Sites
- AIP selected journals
- APS journals
- ArXive
- Biomed Central
- Cambridge journals
- Compendex - Provides weekly updates on a search of interest to you. Do a search, click on the RSS feed button, copy and paste the URL into your RSS reader.
- INSPEC - Provides weekly updates on a search of interest to you. Do a search, click on the RSS feed button, copy and paste the URL into your RSS reader.
- IoP journals
- Nature journals
- New Scientist
- New York Times
- PubMed
- RSC journals
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
