Scholarly resources Archives - Ecta-lsr: Academic Libraries, Journals and Open Access

The Importance of cc:license Tagging for Hybrid Journals

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…

Collaboration between Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek and JournalTOCs Enhances Journal Access

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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…

Measuring the Usefulness and Effectiveness of the JournalTOCs API

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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 with the ORCID Initiative

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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…

Final Progress Post on the JournalTOCsAPI Project

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Final Progress Post Title of Primary Project Output: JournalToCsAPI: An API to search current issues of journals for up-to-date content. Screenshots or diagram of prototype: Use Cases: Description of Prototype: JournalTOCs is a prototype of a web API(*) that uses the REST software architecture style to search the directory of journals…

Demonstrations of Using the JournalTOCs API

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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…

Integración de Tablas de Contenido en un Catálogo Español de Revistas de Ciencias de la Salud

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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…

Announcing WattJournals: A Customized JournalTOCs Version for Academic Libraries

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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…

JOURNAL TOCS API Beta 1 Released

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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…

Systematic Identification of Open Access Articles in Hybrid Journals Begins

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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…