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The importance of cc:license tagging
(19-Jun-18) In the past, hybrid journals (where some articles are Open Access (OA) and others are not) were often dismissed as a temporary entity, something which would fall to the wayside in favour of purely open access (gold OA) or subscription journals. However, no matter how OA is being adopted, the number... (read more) .
Changes to our free service
(08-May-18) In order to continue providing our users with the best service possible, JournalTOCs will be implementing some changes in May 2018 which will affect the users of our free accounts. Firstly, the maximum number of journals that free accounts can follow will now be 15 journals. This is a continuatio... (read more) .
Major landmark reached by JournalTOCs
(17-Apr-18) Now that we’ve hit the halfway point of April and are longing for our summer holidays, the tendency of most people at this point in the year is to start running out of steam. We are delighted to announce that we just reached over 30,000 journals in our database thanks to the newly introduce... (read more) .
The easy way: Dealing with large-scale move of RSS feeds from HTTP to HTTPS
(23-Jun-17) A month ago, the world suffered a global cyberattack named by the international press as the 'biggest ransomware' offensive in history. Although the attack used a technique known as phishing (hackers spread a "ransomware" called WannaCry tricking email users i... (read more) .
JournalTOCs free accounts can follow up to 25 journals
(07-Dec-15) At the moment we are dealing with a high volume of daily email alerts caused by the increasing number of free accounts. Some of those accounts are following 100s of journals. To protect the normal service of JournalTOCs, we are moving free accounts to a separated server and from next week, the maxim... (read more) .
At last we got "200 OK" from Atypon for Maney
(13-Mar-15) One year ago (21st March 2014 to be exact) we contacted Helen Duce, the Head of E-Publishing at Maney Publishing, because after Maney migrated to its new Atypon’s e-publishing platform (Literatum), JournalTOCs was unable to crawl the TOC RSS feeds of Maney’s j... (read more) .
Why publishers should never NOINDEX their RSS feeds
(26-Jan-15) (Update: Three months after this blog post was published, OA Publishing London removed the NOINDEX meta-tag from their RSS feeds. Now, all the journals currently being published online by OA Publishing London have been restored in JournalTOCs.) Last week, Jour... (read more) .
Crowdsourcing the journal selection process
(29-Sep-14) Since this year JournalTOCs has started to move on to a crowdsourcing model to maintain its growing database of journals. Reaching the 24,000 journals milestone was the turning point. This number practically represents the bulk of relevant journals that have... (read more) .
How to grab an RSS feed of the latest articles of a journal and have it show up as a widget on other website
(27-Aug-14) To grab an RSS feeds for a particular journal from JournalTOCs, you can use the API call journals. For example: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/api/journals/0143-3369?output=articles&user=super.journaltocs@gmail.com The above call will grab the feeds produced and normalized by JournalTOCs for... (read more) .
Systematic identification of OA articles from hybrid journals
(07-Apr-14) JournalTOCs is pleased to announce that the automated identification of Open Access (OA) articles from hybrid journals has started to work today This is a highly important development in the efforts being made towards enabling system... (read more).
JournalTOCs is continuing to grow. 24,000 Scholarly Journals are now included in the largest RSS-based alerting service for researchers
(07-Mar-14) As a result of adding 1000 more journals since October 2013, the number of scholarly journals whose latest Tables of Contents (TOCs) are included in the JournalTOCS alerting service for researchers has passed the 24,000 major milestone. Almost half of those 1000 additions come from Hybrid and S... (read more) .
LM takes LibTOC service offline after months of being outdated
(20-Feb-14) The LibTOC current awareness service was removed from the Internet a few weeks ago. LM launched LibTOC in April 2013. LM created LibTOC thanks to a JournalTOCs Premium license, which gave LM full access to up-to-date information to the entire database of JournalTOCs as well as premium access to... (read more) |
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