You can get your RSS Feeds from PubMed.

What is RSS? RSS is commonly used protocol for syndicating and sharing of content. It was originally developed to syndicate news articles, however it is now widely used to share the contents of websites such as blogs, news sites, journal publishers, etc. Think of the protocol for making the news ticker at the bottom of CSPAN go across the bottom of your screen.

People subscribe to feed readers/aggregators, to view their RSS feeds.

What is a feed reader/aggregator? It is a program (sometimes free or pay subscription) that you subscribe to. You subscribe to the reader and then add web sites such as blogs, news alerts, technology trends, medical news, etc. for that reader to monitor. Every time there is a new post or update to the monitored sites, your reader collects it and allows you to read the multiple updates/feeds from all of your monitored sights.

So unlike the CSPAN ticker it is not scrolling at the bottom of your screen, but the aggregator/reader allows you to do one stop monitoring/shopping of your important news and information sites.

Soooo
You can now get feeds from PubMed. Why is this important? You can set up current awareness searches and new results will be displayed in your reader/aggregator. I think this might be a good way to monitor multiple journals for updates and table of contents. Many journals already offer table of content services to be emailed to you directly from their web site. However, if you are interested in monitoring more than one journal (as most of us are) then you have to go to each journal site and subscribe to them. Not only is this time consuming, but if you change emails you have to change it with multiple journals and distributing your email to multiple journal publishers just opens you up for more spam. So, using PubMed RSS feeds might be the solution to subscribing to multiple email updates.

I am currently testing PubMed's RSS feed service. I am testing to see how it does for Table of Content information. I have subscribed to NEJM's TOC service which will be emailed to me, and I created and RSS feed in PubMed to monitor NEJM. I will see soon enough how the two compare.
I have also set up a current awareness search as an RSS feed and I will see how that plays out as well.

So with all this talking about RSS feeds and PubMed, here is how you actually do it.

How to set up feeds from a particular journal:

1. Go to PubMed
2. Click the "Limits" tab
3. In the "ALL Fields" drop-down menu, select "Journal"
4. Type the name of the journal in the top PubMed search box
5. Click "Go"
6. Click on the "Send to" box and select "RSS feed"
7. It will take you a preference page, select as the number of items in the feed, the default is 15 you might want it to be more.
8. Click "Create Feed"
9. Open a second browser session and go to your RSS aggregator
10. Login to your aggregator and either drop add that feed to your aggregator

Each aggregator has their own unique ways to add feeds. Some aggregators you can drag and drop the XML button into the aggregator program. Others require you to click on the XML button copy the XML/RSS URL and paste it into your aggregator. I use Bloglines,
so I click on the PubMed XML button copy the URL. I go to Bloglines, so I go under the My Feeds tab and I click Add. I paste the XML/RSS URL into the "Blog or Feed URL" box and click subscribe. Voila it is added to my feeds.

As I said earlier, I have also added a current awareness search to my RSS feed. I have a current awareness search already in My NCBI which is emailed to me. So I didn't have create a search by scratch, I simply clicked on my search to display the results. From there I repeated steps 6-10.

I will see how my journal feeds and my current awareness search feeds compare with what is usually emailed to me. I will keep you informed. If this works nicely, it would be another alternative to receiving information.