Why RSS still rocks for researchers

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a stream of updates from a source (journal, search, author, etc.). Subscribe once, and new items land in your reader—or your Telegram channel—without refreshing 20 tabs. It’s fast, lightweight, and works across most scholarly sites.

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What you’ll need

  • One place to receive updates:

    • An RSS reader (e.g. Inoreader, Feedly, NewsBlur, NetNewsWire, Reeder).

    • OR a Telegram setup (Feed Reader Bot / RSS bot) to push updates to a channel (broadcast) or group (team discussion).

  • Your sources: PubMed searches, Scopus searches or author/document pages.

PubMed: turn any search into an RSS feed

  1. Run your PubMed search and apply filters (Trials only, Reviews, Most Recent, date ranges, article types, language, etc.).

  2. Click Create RSS right under the search box.

  3. Name the feed, then Create RSS.

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For Scopus, Web of science or the rest of the databases

mostly I will do the same steps we did in PubMed and you will see the RSS feed sign in the page of search


Journals & sites without an obvious feed


Where to read: two winning patterns

1) A classic RSS reader

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2) Telegram (for teams, or personal push)

RSS Bot (@rss2tg_bot)

  • To post into a Channel or Group:

    1. Add the bot as Admin of the channel/group.

    2. In the bot: /channel (or /group) → select your destination → then /add <feed_url>.

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