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Once Marjolein Hoekstra pleaded Feedly to consider adding support for dynamic OPML. Her post summarised very well why OPML is important for RSS aggregators to dynamically detect any change in the list of subscribed feeds. When an OPML would get updated, so would the aggregator. The scenario is valid for publishers of scholarly journals. JournalTOCs …

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The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot One might expect that journals in computer science are using the latest computer science technologies to publish their journals. Well that is not always the case. For example we found two publishers in computer sciences that do not give their own publications platforms the benefit of their “expertise”. ACTA …

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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 users …

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Interesting Key Findings found in the “Social Media and Research Workflow” Report The latest Charleston Observatory report on Social Media and Research Workflow published by the University College London (UCL) and Emerald contains interesting results such as the following key findings: Key Findings Researchers sent a clear message to librarians. At the top of their …

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Register your interest with [email protected] 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 services. This …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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