without comments We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for JOURNAL TOCs API. This release marks the culmination of the development work done by the JISC funded JournalTOCs API Project, which brings the current issues of more than 12,600 scholarly journals, directly from the publishers to researchers, authors, IR …
Integración de Tablas de Contenido en un Catálogo Español de Revistas de Ciencias de la Salud with one comment El Catálogo de Revistas de Ciencias de la Salud (RCS) está usando JournalTOCs para mostrar las Tablas de Contenido de sus revistas en las páginas web del catálogo. La integración de JournalTOCs con RCS ha sido …
The importance of cc:license tagging without comments In the past, hybrid journals (where some articles are Open Access (OA) and others are not) were often dismissed as a temporary entity, something which would fall to the wayside in favour of purely open access (gold OA) or subscription journals. However, no matter how OA is being …
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Why publishers should never NOINDEX their RSS feeds without comments Last week, JournalTOCs stopped indexing all of the 40 journals published by OA Publishing London because this publisher took the unusual and illogical measure of requesting aggregators not to index (aggregate) the RSS feeds for the current issues of its journals. Tables of Contents from …
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Crowdsourcing the journal selection process without comments Since this year JournalTOCs has started to move on to a crowdsourcing model to maintain its growing database of journals. Reaching the 24,000 journals milestone was the turning point. This number practically represents the bulk of relevant journals that have been selected and added by the selection team …
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Systematic identification of OA articles from hybrid journals with 2 comments JournalTOCs is pleased to announce that the automated identification of Open Access (OA) articles from hybrid journals has started to work today This is a highly important development in the efforts being made towards enabling systematic and easy identification of Open Access articles for …
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JournalTOCs Background Publications without comments These publications of the ticTOCs Project cover the presentations made on the technology, research, standards, advocacy work, and findings produced by ticTOCS and that are part of the background of the JournalTOCs Project. You can download these publications from here, or request copies from the ICBL ([email protected]) or the JournalTOCs …
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without comments Alerting OA accessibility using available bibliographic metadata standards Forward thinking publishers have started to include in their Table of Contents (TOC) RSS feed metadata, elements that describe the copyright and access rights associated with an OA article. Being able to identify the accessibility of an article becomes even more important when the …
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Awards for two services developed using JournalTOCs without comments Recently two of our licensed institutional users have been awarded with a project grant and a prestigious award respectively, both of them involving the use of JournalTOCs Premium. 1. Award to develop an automated e-TOCs current awareness service at the NYMC The Health Sciences Library of …
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without comments The University Library of Regensburg and JournalTOCs concluded the implementation of a collaboration agreement to include in the Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Electronic Journals Library (EZB)) journals information to enable their users to access to new journal TOCs from their EZB web pages. The new EZB service including the links from JournalTOC was launched on …