From: Roddy Macleod <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:28 PM
JournalTOCs current awareness service for researchers now contains the
latest Tables of Contents of over 20,000 journals
I’m delighted to announce that JournalTOCs, the current awareness
service for researchers and academics, now contains the latest Tables
of Contents of over 20,000 scholarly journals.
JournalTOCs www.journaltocs.ac.uk is the largest freely available
collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs), and is for
anyone looking for the latest and most current papers published in the
scholarly literature. Researchers, academics, librarians, students,
and anyone else will find it useful for keeping up-to-date.
Coverage is international, and includes journals from over 1,200
different publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis,
Wiley, IEEE, Sage, Walter de Gruyter, Inderscience, RMIT, Project
Muse, OUP, Emerald, CUP, Hindawi, BioMed Central, etc. Of the 20,000
journals, over 4,400 are Open Access.
At the JournalTOCs website you can search for journals by title or
ISSN, or for articles by keyword, and browse for journals by subject
or publisher. Free registration enables you to build your own
personalised collection of journal titles and elect to receive email
alerts when new journal issues are published. You can also save and
export the content of TOCs. Developers can use the free API to
directly access the database of articles, journals and publishers to
embed TOCs in library catalogues, portals, widgets and web pages.
JournalTOCs is a free service. In addition, customised versions for
institutions are available at very economic licence rates. This
current awareness service solution is especially suitable for
research, commercial and institutional libraries and resource centres
worldwide. Free 30-day trials are available – contact
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I wrote about the customisable service with a super-admin-user capability here:
http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/youll-like-this-a-lot-a-customisable-current-awareness-service-with-a-super-admin-user-thats-you/
This service now also includes customized calls of the JournalTOC API.
For example, you can link to JournalTOCs in your own web catalogue or
discovery system web interface, and through that link your users will
be able to follow and unfollow journals in JournalTOCs as well as
setup email alerts for their favourite journals, from your own
website. JournalTOCs will automatically recognize your users via your
customization.
More details about the customisation service are available:
http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/customise.php
JournalTOCs is an initiative of the ICBL <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk> at
Heriot-Watt University. It was created in 2009 with funding from the
JISC Rapid Innovation Grants, and is now an independent service.
Follow JournalTOCs on Twitter at <http://twitter.com/journaltocs>
Roddy MacLeod
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