In order to keep up to date with the news being published in the scientific fields that are of interest to us, there are different tools and services that can keep us updated in an agile, fast and easy way.

Some of the most commonly used tools or services are:

• Journal summary alerts
• Search alerts saved to databases
• New publication alerts
• RSS content syndication
• Subscriptions to forums, blogs, wikis or science video channels.

The following document is a tutorial to help you create journal alerts and syndicate RSS content.