Guides
Guides: follow journals, keep up, highlight and keep sources
17 practical guides with steps verified against the product: journal feeds, alerts, arXiv and PubMed, page highlighting, citable sources and change monitoring.
How to follow any journal with RSS (and why it beats e-mail alerts)
Every major publisher offers a feed per journal. Here is where the feed address lives for each platform, how to add it to a reader or to Vite Research, and what an RSS feed does that an e-mail alert cannot.
Google Scholar alerts: what they cannot do, and the RSS alternatives
Scholar alerts arrive by e-mail only and cannot be exported. Here is how to set them up, where they fall short, and how to get the same coverage as feeds you control.
Keeping up with the literature: a weekly workflow
A repeatable routine: follow the right sources, skim in one stream, save what matters with its source, and turn the best of it into notes you can cite.
JournalTOCs is gone: where to find journal tables of contents now
The free directory of 25,000 journal feeds no longer resolves, Zetoc retired in 2022 and the Researcher app has closed. What to use instead, and how library guides can update their links.
arXiv RSS feeds: categories, combined feeds and daily digests
arXiv publishes an official feed for every one of its 155 categories. How the addresses are built, how to combine categories, when the feeds update, and why an empty feed is normal.
PubMed RSS: turn any search into a feed
PubMed can produce an RSS feed for any search you run. The exact clicks, how to write a search worth following, and how the feed compares with My NCBI e-mail alerts.
bioRxiv, medRxiv and other preprint feeds by subject
Which preprint servers publish feeds, which block automated checks, and where to copy the address from, checked on 6 September 2026.
Pocket is gone: where researchers save articles now
Mozilla closed Pocket on 8 July 2025 and Omnivore closed in November 2024. What the read-it-later apps still offer, and what a research workspace does differently.
How to highlight and annotate web pages in Chrome and Firefox
Install the Vite Research extension, select text on any page, add a comment and tags, and find every highlight again in the web app. What it does, the shortcuts, and what it does not do.
From highlight to citation: a preserved-source workflow
How a web page becomes a source you can cite months later even if it changes: save, snapshot, verify, quote, cite, export.
Import your Zotero or Mendeley library (BibTeX, RIS) into Vite Research
Vite Research is not a reference manager. It imports what yours exports, keeps the web sources they handle poorly, and exports a .bib file back.
Chrome and Firefox extensions for researchers: an honest list
Nine extensions worth installing for reading and saving research online, what each is for, and where Vite Research fits. No affiliate links, no ranking games.
Organising research for a thesis or dissertation with a web highlighter
A structure that survives three years: one workspace per chapter, tags for arguments, highlights that keep their source, and a bibliography you export at the end.
Monitoring web pages for changes: Wayback Machine, Visualping, changedetection.io and Vite Research
Four ways to know when a page you cite changes, with the prices and limits from each service's own site on 6 September 2026.
OPML: export a whole field of journal feeds into any reader
Every field and subfield page on this site offers an OPML file of its validated feeds. What OPML is, how to import it in the common readers, and how to build your own.
A verifiable source archive for journalists and fact-checkers
How to keep web sources for a story so they can be checked later: snapshots with hashes, change monitoring, quotes tied to the page, and an evidence pack for the editor or the lawyer.
Organising research for a book with a web highlighter
For nonfiction and historical fiction alike: a project per book, folders per chapter or theme, highlights that remember the page, and sources you can still open when the manuscript is done.