Straw is turning out to be a fairly promising and currently highly functional RSS news aggregator. I've got it working with Hubmed RSS (XML) generator and am now easily scanning new articles for some of my most important search topics. If you are a little rusty on how to search Pubmed most efficiently with a one-line query, then check out the online help and familiarized yourself with each search parameter. For example, I have a query to look for any mention of HIV in the journals Nature and Science and it looks like this:
hiv AND (nature [journal] OR science [journal])
Punch that in Hubmed and get the link to the XML file shown on the upper right hand side of your browser and put the URL into your RSS news aggregator. Now you have an efficient way to keep up with current literature.
Posted by johnvu at February 26, 2004 07:30 PM