How to keep up with new publications and conferences. RSS feed? I'm curious to know how you keep up with new publications in your field and various conferences that are happening. I seem to miss really great conferences and find articles a year or more after they have been published.

How do you keep track? Have you tried an RSS feed?
Yes, the sea of information is immense, but you can keep a pretty good handle on it, especially with the tools available today. And one key to remember is that research is done by people. Often there is a core group of scholars in each field that do the most to move that field forward. Here are a few ideas of what you could do, and certainly there are more:


Use alerts on Google Scholar or other search engines
Follow other researchers in your field on social media
Meet some of the other researchers in your field, if you haven't already, and keep in touch with them
Do a search every so often just to see what is out there. You can also search in other ways, such as for a particular researcher or group and see the direction their articles is going in.