Tools dedicated to keeping people update with the newest journal articles seem common in STEM, but maybe because the social sciences and humanities has less pressure to publish as much as something like medicine, and there are less new publications per year and a smaller amount of journals in total as well. However, disliking having my email flooded with notifications from two dozen journals, I think an RSS feed of new journal articles is the best move to get updates in one place in a quick, standardized, and ad-free display. The problem is, websites tend to make RSS feeds very difficult to find. I'm not sure how much of this is because websites think RSS feeds aren't well-known and used enough to display anymore (a mystic reasoning considering how many sites have options to share on Facebook or Instagram + the bots that post updates on Twitter with 0 likes ever), or if sites intentionally want people to use other services like making accounts for every site and making e-mail subscriptions instead, where they can potentially send promotional content to your email and track your account info via cookies etc.
Although my RSS aggregator (Feedbro Reader for Firefox) has an option to find RSS feeds embedded on a site, this tends to not work well for most academic journal indexing sites. However, almost all academic sites do have them, it's just that the link to the feed is often tucked away in a bizarely unintuitive place. The following is a list of how to find RSS feeds for most major journal databases/indexing services that come up in my fields of interest (mainly things related to anthropology and media studies). Making and maintaining my own RSS feeds for the sites I absolutely could not find them for is next on the to-do list once I get my raspberry-pi/old Thinkpad setup as a server again. This wall of shame currently includes:
Conversely, the wall of honor for the sites that place their RSS feeds clear as day:
And now, for the problem sites...
I swear it's right there for Cultural Anthropology but not there for American Ethnologist!
Probably the strangest and most hideous layout out there.
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