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. Awards for two services developed using JournalTOCs
(07-May-13) 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 the...   (read more)
. NHS: Don't worry, JournalTOCs supports the old IE7 browser
(22-Apr-13) 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 point out that developers should apply standards tha...   (read more)
. Finding current articles with BentoSearch
(08-Apr-13) The latest release 1.0.2 of BentoSearch, the Open Source Ruby on Rails library layer to search and display results from external search engines, has implemented support for JournalTOCs API to provide a look-up for journal current articles. BentoSearch can be used by software developers to impleme...   (read more)
. Impact of effective current awareness management with JournalTOCs in VSSC Library
(27-Mar-13) 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 a current awareness service (CAS) for...   (read more)
. I am Open Access (OA)!
(18-Mar-13) 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 id...   (read more)
. Are we running out of journal names?
(11-Feb-13) 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. This dupl...   (read more)
. More new features for super-user accounts in JournalTOCs *Premium*
(23-Jan-13) 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 sent, from three options: - D...   (read more)
. December brings new features for super-user accounts
(30-Nov-12) The super-user account has become an important tool for the administrators of institutional customised versions of JournalTOCs. A number of changes to the user interface as well as new features have been recently added to the super-user account, based largely on feedback from the own super-users....   (read more)
. Super-users can save searches on behalf of other users
(25-Oct-12) As Roddy has nicely described here, the super-user account is aimed mostly at librarians and information professionals that support users in keeping up-to-date with new papers and need to make the process effortless and transparent for their users. Thus, the super-user account enables librarians to...   (read more)
. JournalTOCs Mission
(15-Oct-12)
To help researchers keep up-to-date on new research that matters to them
JournalTOCs was created to solve the difficulty in keeping up with cutting edge research development. JournalTOCs is the only free service in the world with the goal of immediately making re...   (read more)
. How good are the RSS feeds of the best journals? [1]
(14-Sep-12) As we know there a range of variations in the quality of the RSS feeds that publishers produce to announce the latest issues or articles published in their journals. But we wonder if there is any correlation between quality of a journal and quality of its RSS feeds. In particular what about the bes...   (read more)
. JournalTOCs adds Search within the Journals You Follow, and Search by Subject
(17-Jul-12) JournalTOCs has just added a set of options to Search, allowing registered users to search just within the journals they follow or the journals for which their institution has full-text access. The new options are available only for customised versions of JournalTOCs. In addition, users of customise...   (read more)
 
Recent References to JournalTOCs
  • Ascher M., Mohiuddin M, Crooke D., Heimer H., Stein P. and Cunningham D. (2013) Development of an Automated Electronic Table of Contents Current Awareness Service Using RSS Feeds and the Library Blog. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, (MLA'13) Boston, MA (USA)
  • Bartlett J. (2013) Running to Stand Still: The Challenge of Keeping Up with Library Trends. Library Leadership & Management. Volume 27, number 1/2, pp 1-5
  • Chumbe S., MacLeod R. (2013) Marketing OA journals now that authors are customers: the role of RSS, Learned Publishing, Volume 26, Number 1, pp. 51-56(6) DOI: 10.1087/20130110
  • Gluskera A. (2013) Implementing the Transition From Full- to Self-Service Table of Contents Alerts: A Case Study Journal of Hospital Librarianship. Volume 13, Issue 1, pp 1-10. DOI 10.1080/15323269.2013.743200
  • MacLeod R. (2013) JournalTOCs: free resource for researchers now also in Premium Multimedia Information & Technology Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1
  • Narayanan kutty N. (2013) Linking Users and Online Journals in TOCosphere: JournalTOCs in VSSC Library Presented at the 18th CALIBER Conference, Gujarat (India)
     
  • Bertelmann R., Szott S. and Hōhnow T. (2012) Discovery jenseits von 'all you can eat' und 'one size fits all'. Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis. Vol. 36, pp. 369-376. DOI 10.1515/bfp-2012-0050
  • Fei Xu, (2012) Journal based current awareness services for systems librarianship, VINE, Vol. 42 Issue 2, pp.152-171 DOI: 10.1108/03055721211227174
  • Stone G. (2012) Huddersfield Open Access Publishing. Information Services & Use. Volume 31, pp 215-223 DOI 10.3233/ISU-2012-0651
  • Vinit Kumar, Devika P. Madalli, Mithun Raj M., (2012) Building a personalized ToC service for the Library of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Electronic Library, The, Vol. 30 Issue 3, pp 339-350 DOI: 10.1108/02640471211241627
  • Whittle S. (2012) Pro Bono Publico: Open Access Online Publication at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Legal Information Management. Volume 12, Issue 03. pp 189-197 DOI 10.1017/S147266961200045X
     
  • Fallahay M. (2011) "JournalTOCs; http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk" Technical Services Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp 89-90. DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2012.624916
  • Plieninger J. (2011) "Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen" AKA Verlag Heidelberg. Volume 2, pp 323-350
  • Stephens O. (2011) "Mashups and open data in libraries" Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community. Volume 24, Number 3. pp 245-250. DOI 10.1629/24245
  • Chen X. (2010) "The Declining Value of Subscription-based Abstracting and Indexing Services in the New Knowledge Dissemination Era". Serials Review. Volume 36, Issue 2, pp 79-85 DOI: 10.1016/j.serrev.2010.02.010
  • Chumbe S. (2010) "Mashup of REST-ful APIs using RSS feeds to support research in a high-demanding research environment" In Proceedings of the 10th EMTAC Conference in Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Chumbe S., MacLeod R. (2010) "WattJournals: Towards an Economic and Lightweight Search Tool Alternative for Libraries To Help Their Students and Researchers Keep Up-To-Date" Code{4}Lib Journal. Issue 12.
  • Stainthorp, P. (2010) "The first six tools for practical Library 2.0" SCONUL Focus, Vol 49, pp 10-12
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