An RSS subscription is a way to have new articles from your chosen journals delivered to you automatically — collected in one place (a feed reader) as soon as they’re published. Set it up once, and you never have to check those journal websites by hand again. FRELIP’s feeds make this easy.

RSS is a quietly brilliant old technology with an unglamorous name and a wonderful purpose: it lets a website tell you “here’s what’s new” without you having to visit. Subscribe to your key journals’ feeds and their latest articles flow into one tidy stream — the ultimate “research comes to me” setup.

How an RSS subscription works

  • A feed is a live list — a journal’s feed updates itself every time a new article appears.
  • A feed reader gathers them — one app or site collects all your subscribed feeds into a single stream.
  • Subscribe once — add a feed’s link to your reader and it updates forever, hands-free.
  • Everything in one place — no inbox clutter, no visiting ten sites; just one stream of new work.
Set up once, benefit for years
A graduate student subscribes to the RSS feeds of their five key journals. Each morning, their feed reader shows every new article from all five, gathered in one list. They scan it in two minutes over breakfast and stay effortlessly current — for the whole of their degree. Five minutes of setup; years of payoff.

The mindset shift

RSS embodies a simple but powerful idea: stop chasing information, and let it come to you. Once your feeds are set, staying current becomes a calm two-minute habit instead of an anxious chore you keep meaning to do. That shift, from pull to push, is what keeps busy researchers up to date.

Try this
Find the RSS option on frelip.org/feed_file/ (or any journal you like) and add it to a free feed reader. Watch one new item arrive on its own. That small moment is the whole philosophy of RSS in action.

🔗 Try it on FRELIP: frelip.org/feed_file — subscribe to the feeds

Feeds are one piece of a bigger habit: staying current across all your tools. Let’s bring it together. On to Staying Updated.

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Última modificación: viernes, 5 de junio de 2026, 08:23