From: Roddy Macleod <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:31:12 +0000
For the full text of this press release, see:
http://openjemo.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/libraries-in-the-developing-world-to-benefit-from-journaltocs-inasp-collaboration/
University and research libraries in developing countries are to
benefit from collaboration between JournalTOCs and INASP. Access to
JournalTOCs Premium will be provided free for eligible INASP partner
consortia for 17 months from 1st April 2014, and will enable
participating libraries to develop and manage effective scholarly
journal current awareness services for their researchers.
Based at the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt
University, JournalTOCS Premium is a current awareness subscription
service providing effective customisations to research, academic,
commercial and institutional library and resource centres worldwide.
It is the institutional version of JournalTOCs, the largest, free
collection of subscription and Open Access journal Tables of Contents.
JournalTOCS enables researchers to discover the newest scholarly
papers coming directly from publishers as soon as they have been
published online. It includes the latest Tables of Content from over
24,000 scholarly journals including more than 7,500 selected Open
Access titles, from approximately 2,000 publishers. JournalTOCs is
used by tens of thousands of individual researchers across all
disciplines.
INASP is an international development charity working with a global
network of partners to improve access, production and use of research
information and knowledge, so that countries are equipped to solve
their development challenges. INASP's work is funded by governmental
and non-governmental development agencies and philanthropic
foundations, with contributions from its partner countries.
The JournalTOCs Premium customisations for INASP consortia, developed
as part of the EPSRC funded JEMO project, will give library users in
participating libraries fast and easy discovery, alerts and access to
the full-text of the most current papers published in the electronic
journals to which the libraries subscribe, including (where
applicable) journal content negotiated by INASP from over 40 major
publishers, such as Annual Reviews, Bentham Science, Cambridge
University Press, De Gruyter, Emerald, IOP, Mary Ann Liebert, Nature
Publishing, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Sage,
Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. In addition, content from
INASP's Journal Online Projects (Bangladesh Journals Online, Latin
America Journals Online, Mongolia Journals Online, Nepal Journals
Online and Sri Lanka Journals Online) has been added to JournalTOCs
and is included in the service.
Kay Raseroka, a past Director of the Library at the University of
Botswana, past President of the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 2003-2005, and Member of the
Board of Trustees of INASP, said, "I am delighted that this project is
going ahead. It will help researchers in less developed countries to
keep abreast of new scholarly papers as well as giving librarians an
important role in the process. Through the inclusion of the INASP
Journals Online content, much of which is Open Access, it will also
improve the accessibility and visibility of research from developing
countries."
As well as gaining free access to JournalTOCs Premium, INASP and
participating libraries will provide valuable feedback and help
JournalTOCs in the development of consortia versions of its
subscription product for institutions.
The JournalTOCS / INASP collaboration is one of two parts of the JEMO
project. The other part of the project will demonstrate and promote
among publishers the viability and advantages of using RSS (Really
Simple Syndication) for enabling the systematic discovery of Open
Access articles in hybrid journals.
Dr Ian Brotherston, Head of Enterprise Services at Heriot-Watt
University said, "I am delighted that Heriot-Watt is supporting the
JournalTOCs and the JEMO project via its EPSRC Impact Acceleration
Account. JournalTOCs and JEMO are exactly the sort of product
development programmes that in our view the Impact Acceleration
Account was designed to support"
JournalTOCs Premium is currently trusted by a diverse range of
libraries and information centres across the world. In addition to
academic libraries, among its customers are large pharmaceutical
companies, hospital libraries, an agency of the United Nations (UN),
and an aerospace research centre.
For more information about JournalTOCS Premium see
http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/customise.php or email:
[log in to unmask] or phone: Elizabeth Johnson, Research &
Enterprise Services, +44 (0)131 451 3192
For more information about INASP and their collaboration with
JournalTOCS please email [log in to unmask] or visit www.inasp.info
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