Now Available: CHEST Subject Collections and RSS Feeds

Update on RSS Feeds:

A couple of weeks ago I posted about RSS feeds: what they are and how you can use them to get updates when new content goes online. If you missed it, you can read it here. Maybe you've forgotten about RSS, so feel free to review it as a refresher.

Now we've launched some additional RSS alerts for the CHEST journal Web site. Now you can subscribe to alerts for any or all of the following: 

• Current Issue
• Papers in Press (papers published online prior to being in print)
• Most Frequently Cited
• Most Frequenly Read

And the new feeds include alerts when new articles are published to a specific Section of the journal. For example if you wanted to be notified when a new Interactive Physiology Grand Rounds article is published, it'll do that.

Just go to: 

http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/rss/

And select the things you want to be notified about. We're also planning to have medical subjects as RSS feeds eventually.

Subject Collections:

The other thing we added to the journal site last year is expanded collections. We've grouped all the articles published in CHEST since 2006 and created a list of them all in one place, so you don't have to go through each issue to find all the Pulmonary and Critical Care Pearls, for example. You can get to them easily by going to the Collections page (linked from the CHEST home page) and clicking on the collection you want to see.

Here's a direct link to all the CHEST Collections: 

http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/cgi/collection

If you like the CHEST Collections and find them useful, you can use the RSS feed alerts to notify you when new articles in your favorite Collections are published.

Enjoy! 

About the Author

Stephen Welch

Senior Vice President, Communications
Executive Editor, CHEST

This blog, "It Ain't Rocket Surgery" is intended to help busy health-care professionals find useful online and mobile resources that will enhance their self-education and professional research efforts, or point out important topics of discussion related to online information and content. The blog's title is a Yogi Berra style mash-up of two common phrases, "it ain't brain surgery" and "it ain't rocket science". I hope it will be casual, fun, insightful, and -- most of all -- educational.

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I currently serve ACCP as the Senior Vice President of Communications, as well as the Executive Editor of CHEST, the ACCP’s flagship journal. During my 15 years here, ACCP has focused on growing and developing the editorial, technological, and business aspects of the College. We are constantly striving to make the journal and other ACCP educational content as accessible and useful to clinicians as possible.

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