Research tools

Measuring the usefulness and effectiveness of the API: A retrospective view of prototyping the use cases The project identified two use cases in the context of helping Institutional Repository (IR) managers to ensure that their content is complete and up-to-date.  The first Use Case tried to find an answer to the need for IR managers…

Tackling the “Who are you?” question Last December it was announced that an impressive number of important organisations has founded the ORCID Initiative (Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative). If this initiative succeeds in achieving its goal, unambiguous referencing of authors will become a problem of the past. No wonder the initiative has produced high…

I have created screen casts for each of the 4 JournalTOCs API calls. For more information about each calls, please see the Technical Documentation. Journals The following screen cast demonstrates 7 examples of using the Journals API call. Journals with the keyword library in the title http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/library?output=journals Journals with the keywords computer AND science in…

Announcing WattJournals: The first customised version of JournalTOCs for Academic Libraries A new, low-cost effective search tool for Heriot-Watt University, WattJournals, was pre-launched today to help their students and researchers keep up to date. spineless? - the official blog of Heriot-Watt University Library – announced the pre-launch of its new WattJournals search tool. The announcement…

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…

EDINA OpenURL Router When developing the free JournalTOCs trial customisations for around 20 institutions, we came across the OpenURL Router of EDINA. OpenURL is one way to redirect users to the actual website that provides the links to the full-text for the article they have an interest in. Without OpenURL or other similar tools…