Thank you! OMG thank you so much!

Hi all, can i just say on the outset that I really appreciate this site so much, it has made me feel validated to see that i am not alone in this (horrendous) life-choice of constant swings in motivation.

I've just started my second year in my Phd journey and this question may sound really dumb to most of you but better late than never, I suppose :$ Thing is I wonder if there is a search engine or something out there like a rss feed (?) that any of you may know of, that enables me to find the most current trends in the research/literature that I am interested in? i am in the social sciences by the way.. I know that maybe there is no short cut to the slog of wading through tonnes of journals of at least in the past five years... but I am realising now that some of the stuff important to my research is also found in journals that aren't usually related to my topic of interest!

Thanks all.. hope to hear from some of you

anne_(sprout)