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Today, the Free JournalTOCs trial 2011 has been open. JournalTOCs is offering libraries a free trial of a lightweight scholarly journals tables of contents customisation service. As libraries are faced with financial cutbacks, this trial gives libraries the opportunity to explore a real alternative to expensive database search…
How to filter journals based on Open Access licensing conditions
Yesterday I found this post by Tony Hirst where he reported that unfortunately JournalTOCs didn’t include metadata that identifies whether a journal is Open Access or not. In fact he pointed out that he couldn’t find a service that returns a simplistic “yes/no” response to…
Are OA journals frightened of TOC RSS feeds?
Today, Roddy MacLeod tells us that he has added 25 Open Access (OA) journals to JournalTOCs recently. These new journals will increase the number of OA journals in JournalTOCs. Although finding and uploading individual OA journals is not a sustainable model for us, the work of Roddy…
Why is JournalTOCs attracting so many academic librarians?
We have been planning to report on the journals that were most preferred by JournalTOCs users. We thought that one way to produce this report would be counting the number of times a journal was found in the MyTOCs folders of our subscribed users. We decided to…
JournalTOCs reaches 3,020 subscribed MyTOCs users
As of early this morning, JournalTOCs has 3,020 subscribed users worldwide and since last week we’re growing that figure at roughly five new members per day.
Why our users would want to subscribe to JournalTOCs? The main reason is to be able to save their preferred journals in their…
Welcome to the journalTOCsAPI Project blog
The journalTOCsAPI Project is creating a facility for monitoring current journal issues to identify published papers for IRs
Project Tag: JOURNALTOCSAPI
Project Team: Roger Rist; Santy Chumbe; Lisa Rogers
Project Friends: Jenny Delasalle; Phil Barker; Roddy MacLeod
Project details on JISC PIMS: https://pims.jisc.ac.uk/projects/view/1390
In short,…
Open Access journals using OJS platform: How to enable journal TOC RSS feeds
From time to time, and increasingly recently, publishers of Open Access journals ask us to add their journals to JournalTOCs.
When we let them know that in order to be part of JournalTOCs, they
must produce RSS feeds for their current or…
Working towards sustainability: SSI review JournalTOCs
On the 12th of May I travelled to London to attend the software sustainability workshop offered by the newly funded Software Sustainability Institute (SSI). Neil Chue Hong, Director of the SSI, presented the services and the goals of the institute. After lunch, the participants had the opportunity to…
Creating “full-text always available” current-awareness services
Interesting to see academic libraries starting to use the journalTOCs API. Library IT staff have came out with different ideas for re-using journal TOC RSS feeds, from the early “pre-API downloads” to the a little bit more complex “easy receipts” developments. One of these applications that attracted our…