the International Union of Crystallography, publishers of the Acta Crystallographa Series, also offer RSS feeds for their journals, which feature title and abstract for the most recently published articles. (Source: List of Chemistry Journals and Magazines, an extensive hyperlinked list from Dr. Lonquin Hu of Rutgers. I learned about it from PSIGate.
We’re going to be seeing more and more journal content delivery via RSS. For those of us who use our newsreader to filter through all kinds of content, it’s a boon. If the full text of the journal is behind a proxy, firewall, or limited access via subscription, that complicates the picture. Just wait until BioMedCentral releases RSS feeds for its open-access journals. It will be seamless. It will be live.
Often times it seems a publisher doesn’t do much to advertise new features. I stumble upon archives or a new feature such as RSS. Was an annoucement posted to listservs or mailing lists? Am I reading the wrong stuff?