Cool idea
Awesome.
HubMed is an RSS interface to PubMed. For those out there not in the biomedical sciences, PubMed is a database of the biomedical literature that you can search on the web. These days, biomedical research would grind to a halt without PubMed. I can't even conceive of manually searching the huge volumes of Index Medicus, as I used to do in the 1980's. Someone came up with a cool way to keep an eye on searches using a feed aggregator. All you have to do is to plug your PubMed search into HubMed, and it produces a search with an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It's like a specialized Feedster for PubMed.
This could be useful to me for monitoring literature searches as they update. Its search interface could use a little refinement. Its utility would be primarily in searches that update frequently (for instance, searching on a particular author who is not a publication machine might only update every few months).
Tip o' the hat to The Geomblog.
HubMed is an RSS interface to PubMed. For those out there not in the biomedical sciences, PubMed is a database of the biomedical literature that you can search on the web. These days, biomedical research would grind to a halt without PubMed. I can't even conceive of manually searching the huge volumes of Index Medicus, as I used to do in the 1980's. Someone came up with a cool way to keep an eye on searches using a feed aggregator. All you have to do is to plug your PubMed search into HubMed, and it produces a search with an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It's like a specialized Feedster for PubMed.
This could be useful to me for monitoring literature searches as they update. Its search interface could use a little refinement. Its utility would be primarily in searches that update frequently (for instance, searching on a particular author who is not a publication machine might only update every few months).
Tip o' the hat to The Geomblog.
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