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Re: A project to help academics and researche rs find and use journal Tables of Contents RSS feeds

From:

Eduardo Gil <[log in to unmask]>

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An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:49:19 -0400

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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
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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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>> -----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
>>
>>  
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>> Information about this project will hopefully be of interest 
>> to members of this list.
>>
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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
>> <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 
>> Liverpool, United Kingdom,
>> L69 3DA.
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>> Email: [log in to unmask]
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>> Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP
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