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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 …

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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, the project is developing …

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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 …

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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 and articles obtained directly …

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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 titlehttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/library?output=journals Journals with the keywords computer AND science in the …

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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 …

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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 expectations. …

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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 discuss …

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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 attention …

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