RSS in the Academic/Research/Scientific community
I recently wondered out loud (on a couple of mailing lists) how much action there is with RSS and Blogging within the Academic/Research/Scientific community. The reason for that question was that I was considering that with those folks refereed, scholarly articles are what counts which seems diametrically opposite to the casual, ad-hoc, first-person rants that are generally associated with blogging. (Ok I am just exaggerating to make a point.) I learned that there's actually lots and lots going on with RSS and Blogging in that world. Here are some interesting from a more or less random collection of serious science and academic pubs all of which have RSS support of some kind. This is, I am sure, nowhere near comprehensive, but it was eye opening to me.,
Generate RSS feeds for search alerts from databases hosted on EngineeringVillage2
Generate RSS feeds for search alerts from ADS (astro and planetary science)
IEEE Computer Society (warning: if you're at an institution that uses Xplore -- the feed does not link through to full text and you'll have to search)
EurekAlert! (ok, only press releases from Universities and research institutions, but still very much of interest to practicing scientists and engineers)
Lots of trade pubs like The Engineer, Small Times, New Scientist, Advances in Electronics Manufacturing Technology have RSS feeds. Just google their name with RSS
Pubmed lets you create standing searches as RSS Feeds. Here are the instructions.
Also check out Connotea, a de.icio.us like service focused on the scientific and academic community.
Just look at this list, it's awesome!