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Ask HN: Where do you subscribe to published journal topics?

by hhthrowaway1230 on 9/1/24, 1:50 PM with 9 comments

Hey all trying to track all published journals. Is there something like a place or rss for all published journals? thank you!

  • by Yawrehto on 9/2/24, 2:04 PM

    If you mean articles: No, it would be unfeasible.

    According to Science [https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-scien...] there are about 2.82 million articles coming out every year. That's 5.3 papers every minute, 24/7.

    If you mean a list of titles, your best bet would probably be something like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ [PMC, life sciences/medicine], https://www.jstor.org/ [JSTOR, general], https://scholar.google.com [general], https://scholar.archive.org/ [from the Internet Archive; I haven't used it much, but it could be helpful if the journal is now defunct]. There are others, like the ones on this list [https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/index-types-for-academic...]. I'm not sure how much overlap there is between those.

    Of course, you could always try SciDB, a continuation of SciHub, hosted at Anna's Archive. I would think there aren't legal concerns if you're just looking at the title, but I am Not A Lawyer.

  • by jszymborski on 9/3/24, 12:49 AM

    OpenAlex[0] and CrossRef[1] is a pretty good source for this.

    [0] https://openalex.org/ [1] https://www.crossref.org/

  • by cossatot on 9/3/24, 2:45 AM

    I don’t know if this is compatible with your use case, but as a working scientist interested in my sub field and those adjacent, I subscribe to email alerts from publishers (all nonprofit scientific societies with the exception of Nature). There are both table of contents emails and keyword-based emails. Not sure if RSS feeds are available. If you’re wanting to do some automated parsing, you might need a dedicated email address (and of course access through a university library or similar).

  • by mikewarot on 9/1/24, 6:28 PM

    Ok, this might be a different interpretation of the word journal than you intend?

    I follow various people and organizations on Twitter and YouTube, and do everything I can to avoid the algorithm, keeping things curated.

    I don't subscribe to anything on dead trees anymore.