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Overview of the EDINA OpenURL Router for Full-Text Access

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…

Why Publishers Should Avoid NOINDEXing Their RSS Feeds

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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…

Crowdsourcing the Journal Selection Process to Expand JournalTOCs Database

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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…

Background Publications of the JournalTOCs Project

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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…

Alerting Open Access Accessibility with Bibliographic Metadata Standards

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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…

Awards for Two Services Developed Using JournalTOCs

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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…

Impact of Effective Current Awareness Management with JournalTOCs in VSSC Library

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Impact of effective current awareness management with JournalTOCs in VSSC Library without comments The Library of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), a hub for development of satellite launch vehicles and associated technologies of the Government of India, has presented a case study discussing the benefits of using JournalTOCs to manage the delivery of…

JournalTOCs Supports the Old IE7 Browser for NHS Users

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NHS: Don’t worry, JournalTOCs supports the old IE7 browser without comments Many would argue that there is no excuse for software developers not to support old browsers, aka browsers that have been released more than five years ago or do not support the advanced web apps commonly used in modern websites. Some will…

Are We Running Out of Journal Names?

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Are we running out of journal names? without comments With so many journals appearing everyday it is no wonder publisher and prospective publishers are running out of names for their journal titles, and an unavoidable consequence of this is duplication. We constantly stumble with “new” titles that are already being used by other journals.…

New Features for Super-User Accounts in JournalTOCs Premium

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More new features for super-user accounts in JournalTOCs *Premium* without comments The functionality to manage user’s email alerts, announced last month, has been expanded further. Now, super-users can view, remove and change Digest Alerts before the email alerts are sent to users. As you know, your users can choose the frequency that alerts will be…