What's RSS?

RSS, often known as Really Simple Syndication, allows you to subscribe to a feed that automatically sends information (news items, in the case of our blog; search results, in the case of PubMed) directly to an RSS feed reader. You can subscribe to multiple RSS feeds so that you can keep up with all your subscriptions in one place rather than having to go to multiple Websites to see what's new or get search results.

1. The first thing you need to do is choose a feed reader to aggregate your feeds. Some are Web-based (such as Google Reader), some are free-standing software that need to be downloaded and installed on your computer (such as Feed Reader), and still others are plug-ins for your Web browser (such as WIZZ for Firefox).
2. Sites that offer an RSS feed usually display a small orange XML or Atom button. You can subscribe to the feed by right-clicking on the button (or control-clicking, if you have a Mac), and selecting "copy shortcut" (for Internet Explorer) or "copy link location" (for Firefox).
   
3. Paste that shortcut into the new subscription or add a subscription section of your RSS reader.

That's it!