In reply to Steve Hitchcock,
> > Or more simply, apply an aggregator to the RSS feeds from
> the selected
> > source journals, keyword 'superconductivity'. You could
> probably fine
> > tune that to get a good approximation of VJAS.
John Smith wrote:
> No, it would miss useful items and flag up irrelevant items.
> It does not understand the subject it simply keyword matches.
> It certainly would miss items in related subject areas that
> were relevant but used slightly different keyword sets.
This is getting a bit away from the original message and the focus of
this list, but I'd just like to point out that the
ticTOCs Tables of Contents Service, for which a new and much more usable
version will shortly be available,
is aggregating thousands of RSS feeds for journals, and could, fairly
easily, provide a search across
all of the actual content being harvested (i.e. search within all
metadata of current articles) and then make
these results available as an RSS feed. The results would not be a
virtual journal, for the reasons
John gives above, but might be useful in other ways. Our feedback on
this idea has so far been mixed.
Of course, some commercial A&I services offer similar alert facilities,
but not normally based upon aggregated journal RSS feeds,
apart from RefAware. Many IRs presumably have an interest in being
included in the sources harvested by RefAware and similar.
Roddy MacLeod
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