I use a variety of methods to keep me updated on new papers that may be of interest to me, but I am always on the look out for a new tool or method that makes this job easier. Currently, I use the following methods (in order of relevance):
- TOC email alert of certain journals (Nature, PLOS, EMBO, etc)
- Pubcrawler
- myNCBI updates
- Papers mentioned in blogs
- RSS feed of Connotea groups or similar users
Of course I still have to filter through tons of papers to find ones that I want to read and I often end up missing papers that are not caught by any of these methods. Ideally, it would be great if I had a tool that recorded what I read, and figured out what new articles I would probably be interested in (giving more weight to recently read papers). I think the information from the papers I have
bookmarked and tagged in Connotea would be a great starting place for such a tool.
I wonder if anyone else has some tips or tricks that help them filter through the journal haystack?
