Recently I talked about RSS feeds from the Financial Times. You can also set up RSS feeds from EBSCO for notification of new journal content or for updating you with search results.
Before you go any further, you will need to set up a personal account with EBSCO. Instructions for doing so are here. It's quite simple, honest. There's a link to the sign-page on the top right of every EBSCO page.
The results of any search you perform on EBSCO databases can be saved as an alert, which will update you when new content matching your search criteria is added to the database. Rather than dribble on too much, with various degrees of coherence, here's EBSCO's instructions on setting up a search alert, alternatively here's how to set up a journal alert on EBSCO, and finally for EBSCO, here's the low-down on how to set up an EBSCO RSS feed. Why type, when you can copy and paste links, eh? The one negative, for me, is that EBSCO RSS feeds are only viewable on newsreaders and not on homepages such as iGoogle or Pageflakes.
Edit: RSS feeds do work with homepage services, but not it seems if you are searching using Business Source Complete's Enhanced Business Searching Interface. So there
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