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	We offer low-cost effective customisations of JournalTOCs to academic, research, commercial and institutional libraries and resource centres worldwide. JournalTOCs' customised Current Awareness Service is an innovative and much more economic alternative to large and complex e-journal discovery systems. It customises JournalTOCs so that only journals subscribed to by a particular library/institution are included in the service. The aim of the customisation is to give your users fast and easy access to the full-text of the most current papers published in the electronic journals to which your Library subscribes. Register for a free 60-day trial Complete this form to setup a trial for your customised Journal Current Awareness service.
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	Upload an MS Excel file with a sample of your journals:	Filename: (required) Up to 3000 journals is acceptable for the trial. Please provide the title and the ISSN number for each journal. We only work with scholarly journals that provide current electronic TOC RSS feeds, so please do not include trade magazines, print subscriptions or journals that no longer are active.
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	OpenURL Link Resolver:
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	Institutional IP Range	For example: 137.89.. 138.50.23.*
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	Problems registering/More information? If you are having problems registering with the trial, or would like more information about this innovative service, please contact journaltocs@icbl.hw.ac.uk for assistance.
	FAQs How long take to start a trial after registration? Depending on the number of uploaded journals and how quickly you reply our queries, the trial can start within a week of registration. Is the trial free? Yes the trial is free as we want you to have a chance to get to experience the customisation yourself. So, we'll install, configure, set up and host a customised installation for you and let you try out the features, ask us questions and demonstrate the product to your colleagues during 60 days for free. At the end of the trial we will offer you an annual licence, which you can accept or reject without any condition. If you accept, your trial site can simply become your customised site with your own look & feel but with no need for a new install, or we can transfer the customised site to your own institutional site. How much cost a customised JournalTOCs Licence? The price of an annual licence varies between 300 EUROS and 1000 EUROS and is in proportion to the number of journals, the estimated number of user accounts and whether we host your customisation or whether you host it on your own server. What is included in a standard customisation? All the features available on JournalTOCs website are included in the trial. Features available to any user (without signing in): Search for articles published in the most recent TOCs of your list of journals. Browse your journals from alphabetical lists. View the journals that are most followed by other users from your institution. The search and browse results can include OpenURL, ezProxy and WAM links as well as IP authentication for full-text access In addition to the above features, the following features are available to signed in users: Saved articles Followed journals Export of articles and journals in EndNote, RSS or OPML format files TOC Email Alerts on new issues of followed journals "Admin" users can manage all the user accounts and journals that have been registered with your customised service. Would new developments done for JournalTOCS be included in the customised services? Yes. We are always developing new features for the JournalTOCs public service that later can be incorporated in your customisation at no extra cost for you. What about the TOC RSS feeds produced by the JournalTOCs API. Are they also customisable? Yes, some API calls are automatically customised when you register for the trial. For example the original links in the publisher's TOC RSS feeds that take the user direct to the publisher's site are replaced with your institutional link resolver so the user's RSS reader could understand the authentication required when fetching off campus. If you have registered your institution with JournalTOCs, your users will be able to receive RSS feeds that include your own links for the articles. For example the call: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/api/journals/13852256?output=articles&institutionID=durham returns a TOC RSS with the links customised for Durham University. I only want to be able to link the user to the JournalTOCs webpage straight from the journal in my e-journal A-Z list or from my OPAC, how do I construct a URL which will get the user to this page? You don't need to register for a customisation. You can use this URL template: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=tocs&journalISSN=xxxx where xxxx is the journal ISSN number (print or online, it doesn't matter) Examples: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=tocs&journalISSN=1435-9456 http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=tocs&journalISSN=14359456 http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=tocs&issn=14359456 http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=tocs&journalissn=1435-9456 Do I need to register for a customisation if I just want to use the "institution" API call? Yes. Because maintaining support for institutional queries requires extra costs, the use of the "institution" call requires a licence after the period of trial.
	Testimonies Academic librarians in particular have seen the benefits of the alternative offered by JournalTOCs. More than 12 academic and research institutions have tried customisations with JournalTOCs. For example the customised JournalTOCs Current Awareness Service for Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) is called WattJournals. WattJournals helps students and researchers find papers as soon as they have been published, access the full-text of all papers being searched, save searches for later use, and export citations to EndNote. Another example is the customisation done at the Aalborg University in Denmark. Developer Kasper Løvschall explains how they have integrated the TOCs collected by JournalTOCs with their "Unified Resource Discovery" service PRIMO: "At Aalborg University Library we've created a mash-up using JournalTOCs, a home grown web service, and some Primo UI modifications which provide the user with a new tab (using EXL Tab API) presenting the latest articles for a given journal with the opportunity to share TOCs and articles and subscribe to the TOCs via RSS (using e.g.: Google Reader, MS Outlook, smart phone etc.). To be able to provide the "appropriate copy" to the end user the feeds from JournalTOCs are parsed and rewritten to include OpenURL, links to remote access proxies as well as DOI links." Although Aalborg PRIMO-JournalTOCs integration and WattJournals are specially designed for their specific libraries, they are JournalTOCs customisations that can be implemented by any library wanting to provide their users with links to the latest TOCs or searches to only journals to which that library subscribes.

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