Pubfeed – a new Selective Dissemination of Information Service

June 21, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) Services 

A new SDI, Pubfeed, was launched in April of this year, information about it in this blog post:

…  It is essentially a meta-search tool that just re-queries search engines periodically to check for new results based on user’s favorite publications.  The current implementation uses the DBLP and Google Scholar databases but I hope to add other data sources in the future.  In a sense, Pubfeed is actually quite dumb because all the heavy lifting in finding relevant publications is done by DBLP and Google Scholar and Pubfeed just aggregates their results with some basic filters.

It has a simple but attractive interface, that aggregates results based on papers you select, and lists feeds publicly to subscribe to via the site or RSS.  You can add to your favorites as they come in and it changes the results on the fly.  I have setup a couple of queries to see how it works compared to PubCrawler and see what sort of results I get.

Google scholar seems to be a bit slow on indexing/listing new papers, something to keep in mind.

Will update when I have more information.

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