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Hi Roddy: Will this service ticTOC's be also available to academic libraries here in the States (New Jersey to be exact). I joined the JISC ListServ a few years ago and I'm amazed at some of the things you guys are doing in the UK. Eduardo Gil Periodicals Librarian Harry A Sprague Library Montclair State University MacLeod, Roderick A wrote: > 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 > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> DMETA-HQ-EdTrg Mil Med Librarian >> Sent: 21 August 2007 16:53 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: A project to help academics and researche rs >> find and use journal Tables of Contents RSS feeds >> >> Hi Roddy, >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Michael Rowe >> >> Military Medical Librarian >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> DMLS Central Library >> >> Horton Block >> >> Fort Blockhouse >> >> Gosport >> >> Hampshire >> >> PO12 2AB >> >> >> >> >> >> Tel: 023 9276 5344 >> >> Fax: 023 9276 5747 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> E-mail: [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: MacLeod, Roderick A [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >> Sent: 17 August 2007 10:22 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: A project to help academics and researchers find and >> use journal Tables of Contents RSS feeds >> >> >> >> Information about this project will hopefully be of interest >> to members of this list. >> >> >> >> ticTOCs Project to transform journal current awareness >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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." >> >> >> >> A prototype service is expected to be up and running by April 2008. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> More information about ticTOCs is available at the project website: >> http://www.tictocs.ac.uk <http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/> >> >> A ticTOCs news blog is available at: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com >> <http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com > >> >> >> >> Contact: Joe Hilton, ticTOCs Project Manager, Sydney Jones >> Library, University of Liverpool, Chatham St, PO Box 123 >> Liverpool, United Kingdom, >> L69 3DA. >> >> Email: [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >> Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP >> >> >> >> Senior Subject Librarian >> >> >> >> Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS >> >> >> >> Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Home: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html >> >> >> >> Blogging at: http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential >> and may be legally privileged and are intended solely for the >> use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. >> If you are not the intended recipient please note that any >> disclosure, distribution, or copying of this email is >> strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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