Background Publications of the JournalTOCs Project

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 Team ([email protected]).

• Recommendations on RSS Feeds for Scholarly Publishers
  ticTOCs Committee of Experts. October 2009
   
• TicTOCron: an Automatic Solution for Propagating Quality Metadata to Scholarly TOC RSS Feed Metadata
  S.Chumbe and R.A.Macleod: Paper presented at the 30th IATUL Annual Conference, Leuven (Belgium), 1-4 June 2009
   
• Transforming Current Awareness through RSS
  L.J.Rogers: Presented at the European Library Automation Group Conference (ELAG 09) Conference, Bratislava, 23 April, 2009 [slides]
   
• Keeping up to date with scholarly literature: More on ticTOCs.
  R.A.MacLeod: Multimedia Information & Technology, V. 35 (1) February 2009, pp 6-7
   
• Keeping current: What’s new in engineering information?
  R.A.MacLeod: Paper presented at Online Information 2008, STM Information in Focus, London, 3rd December, 2008. [slides]
   
• RSS and scholarly journal tables of contents: the ticTOCs project, and good practice guidelines for publishers
  L.J.Rogers: FUMSI Magazine, October 2008
   
• RSS and current awareness: How two projects (ticTOCS and Gold Dust) are hoping to improve the academic information landscape
  R.A.MacLeod: Paper presented at INFORUM 2008, 29 May, Prague. [slides] [text]
   
• The ticTOCs project: transforming current awareness
  R.A.MacLeod and T.D.Bucknell: Breakout session presented at UKSG Conference 2008, Torquay. [slides]
   
• Projet ticTOCs: Service de sommaires de revues
  S.Chumbe: Session presented at the Journée d’étude sur la mutualisation des systèmes de signalement des contenus de périodiques en sciences humaines et sociales.
  L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon, l’Université de Lyon, Lyon, France. November 2008.
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• Advanced uses of RSS feeds and a look at the future
  L.J.Rogers: Presented at “RSS, blogging and podcasting the future of current awareness : A workshop for publishers and information producers in the social services” Friday 31st October 2008 at Glasgow Caledonian University
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• ticTOCs – Taking the pain out of RSS for journal tables of contents
  R.A.MacLeod: Multimedia Information & Technology, 34(1), February 2008, pp. 14-16.
   
• Taking the pain out of your RSS
  J. Hilton and R.A. MacLeod, Sconul Focus, 42 Winter 2007, pp. 42-43
   
• Keeping current: What’s new in engineering information?
  R.A.MacLeod: Paper presented at Online Information 2007, STM Information in Focus, London, 5th December, 2007.
   
• Helping RSS help researchers
  R.A.MacLeod: Research Information, Issue 33, December 2007/January 2008, p.18
   
• RSS Update: It’s RSS, Jim, but Not as We Know It
  R.A.MacLeod: Free Pint, No 234, 26 July 2007. [nominated for the FUMSI Citation for Most Useful Article, 2007]
   
• Journal current awareness: past, present & future
  R.A.MacLeod. Paper presented at the Aslib: Engineering information: past, present & future seminar, London, 22 Nov 2006.