Hi Mike,
This may be a response which happens to have been sent to the list, but
I think the answer may anyway be of interest to the list.
The ticTOCs service will be freely availabe to libraries, end-users, and
also publishers (i.e. publishers will not need to pay for the inclusion
of their TOC feeds). No institutional registration will be needed to
use the ticTOCs service.
There will be a guest login facility (i.e. similar to, say Pageflakes)
which will allow anyone to test the service, find and view TOCs, etc.
Those wanting to personalise their ticTOCs for future use will need to
register (a simple registration) which will be free (i.e. similar to,
say, Bloglines).
So, Mike, your military medics will be able to login to ticTOCs
themselves, if they so wish. But alternately, if you want to use
ticTOCs to provide a current awareness service for them, you will be
able to login yourself and, say, find and select relevant journals' TOC
feeds, and also combine those feeds if you want, and then embed the
resulting combined feed into, say, your library blog or a page on your
library website. I think such things are currently possible using a
variety of tools and some effort, but ticTOCs will make the whole
process much easier.
Roddy
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> Subject: Re: A project to help academics and researche rs
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> Hi Roddy,
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> What a very interesting development. I have just recently
> been roped in to do a range of literature watching for the
> military medics and have set up several eTOCs, so any means
> of keeping control of them would be very useful to me. I work
> in a small library of 4 people, so the time I can devote to
> this is precious.
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> I note from para 6 that the service is planned to be freely
> available to libraries, which is always nice to hear, but I
> wonder from reading elsewhere whether there will need to be
> some form of institutional registration for the project (as a
> partner?) in order to allow free access for libraries.
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> I hope this is not necessary as we don't have vast resources
> and I would very much like to hear more about it as the
> project develops. Thanks for drawing my attention to the
> possibilities.
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> Best wishes,
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> Mike
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> Sent: 17 August 2007 10:22
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> Subject: A project to help academics and researchers find and
> use journal Tables of Contents RSS feeds
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> Information about this project will hopefully be of interest
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> ticTOCs Project to transform journal current awareness
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> ticTOCs is a project to develop a freely available service
> which may transform journal current awareness. The ticTOCs
> service will make it easy for academics, researchers and
> anyone else to find, display, store, combine and reuse
> journal tables of contents (TOCs) from multiple publishers in
> a personalisable web based environment. JISC is the primary
> funder of the ticTOCs project, which will run for two years
> from April 2007.
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> Fifteen partners are involved in the project. Lead by the
> University of Liverpool Library, the consortium also includes
> Heriot-Watt University, Cranfield University, CrossRef,
> ProQuest, RefWorks, Emerald, Nature Publishing Group, SAGE
> Publishers, Institute of Physics, Inderscience Publishers,
> MIMAS, Directory of Open Access Journals, Open J-Gate and Intute.
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> Efficient journal current awareness services are of the
> highest importance to researchers and academics, whatever
> their discipline. Ensuring efficient and easy access to the
> contents of the latest journal publications is also very
> important for publishers of scholarly journals, a business
> which is estimated to be worth $5 billion per annum. Authors
> of articles in scholarly publications also want their output
> to be available to as wide an audience as possible, as soon
> after publication as possible.
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> The ticTOCs project will develop a freely available service
> which will benefit not only academics and researchers,
> publishers and authors, but also service providers such as
> libraries, aggregators, discovery services and journal
> directories. As such, ticTOCs is likely to become an
> important component of the scholarly communications process.
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> The ticTOCS service will enable academics, researchers and
> anyone else, without having to understand the technical or
> procedural concepts involved in the process, to discover,
> subscribe to, search within, be alerted to, aggregate, export
> and re-use standardised Table of Contents RSS (really Simple
> Syndication) feeds and their content for thousands of
> journals from numerous publishers. In addition, it will
> facilitate the re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a
> subject basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery
> services, library services and others, where it can act as a
> showcase of the latest research output. It will also make it
> easy for users of library and information services,
> commercial and open access journal publishers, online
> gateways, content aggregators and journal directories to
> subscribe to journal TOC RSS feeds of interest, with one
> click, via a freely available personalisable web-based
> interface. ticTOCs will encourage the production of
> standardised journal TOC RSS feeds, and thereby facilitate
> their interoperability and improve the quality of their data.
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> Terry Bucknell, ticTOCs Project Leader, said: "Liverpool
> University is delighted to be leading this significant
> development in journal current awareness. ticTOCS will
> demonstrate how the innovative application of simple
> technologies enables the easy delivery of valuable services
> that previously required considerable effort."
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> A prototype service is expected to be up and running by April 2008.
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> The project has been named ticTOCs because part of the
> service will involve the ticking of selected TOCs (Tables of
> Contents) of interest, from an easy to use online directory
> of thousands of feeds.
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> More information about ticTOCs is available at the project website:
> http://www.tictocs.ac.uk <http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/>
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> A ticTOCs news blog is available at: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com
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> Contact: Joe Hilton, ticTOCs Project Manager, Sydney Jones
> Library, University of Liverpool, Chatham St, PO Box 123
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