Users can now further their research and collaboration efforts by learning more about authors through the new Author Linking feature. The feature links author names from the user’s RefWorks database to possible matching profiles within the COS Scholar Universe database. Scholar Universe is a multi-disciplinary database containing profiles of over 1.7 million authors, university faculty and other scholars. Organisations subscribing to the database will automatically have access the complete profiles; non-subscribing organisations are provided with a more concise complimentary version of the scholar profiles.

Source: RefWorks improves service with new features and enhancements in Knowledgespeak.
For more information. please refer to RefWorks August 2008 Release

• What is RefWorks and why would I want to use it? How do I set up RSS feeds in Refworks?
• What is Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe? How can I find out where I can present my papers?

How do I subscribe to RSS feeds from IEEE Xplore?

Browse IEEE journals to view a publication’s home page or go to Tables of Contents Alerts. Feeds are available individually from each journal’s main page in IEEE Xplore.

To see one example, visit the Proceedings of the IEEE main page. Click on ‘RSS’ icon and copy and paste the XML URL into your RSS reader, or to a browser that supports RSS feeds. Each feed will contain the publication’s title and table of contents with a link to IEEE Xplore.

How do I receive regular email notification of recently posted journals, magazines or standards?

You can also sign up to recieve regular email notification of recently posted journals, magazines, conferences, and standards using the Alerts feature.

PubMed offers RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) feeds of updated content available in the database. An RSS reader is required to use this service on your computer and retrieve new items from PubMed. There are numerous RSS readers from which to choose and many are available to download free from the Web.  See ‘Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries‘ for more information on keeping current with new information from various electronic resources.  Try web based feed readers such as Google Reader or Bloglines to subscribe to feeds of updated content from PubMed or any other databases that provide RSS feeds option.

See: RSS feeds from PubMed

To set up an RSS feed:
(1) Run your search in PubMed.
(2) Select RSS Feed from the Send to menu.
(3) Click Create Feed and copy the XML icon into your RSS Reader