Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter: ticTOCs makes it easy to keep up with STM journal content

Volume 7 • Number 1
January 2009
ISSN: 1549-3725
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Theme: Performance & Planning

welcome

features

Much more arts & humanities coverage on Scopus is coming How we’re laying the foundation for a culture of assessment at our university libraries Here’s an update on Elsevier’s ROI study looking at academic libraries New online community Innovation Explorers seeks librarian members The Norwegian paradox: A revealing case study about research policy and numbers Swimming against the current: Academic performance and planning in an era of rapid technological change Hiroyuki Tomizawa talks about using Scopus data to drive OECD’s innovation strategy Visualizing research performance: Bringing strategic insight to research management

center of attention

Library assessment from a fresh perspective Three tips to help us, as we all transform into Next Gen librarians

community connections

James Weyhenmeyer, PhD, senior vice provost for research at the State University of New York, talks about academic research funding Funding intelligence tool: Launching soon to provide a better grip on the funding landscape ticTOCs makes it easy to keep up with STM journal content

behind the scenes

Case study: Ideas4Science.com demonstrated that info pros and researchers see value in an online community approach to exchanging ideas ScienceDirect College Edition gains content and flexibility

on the road

Taking innovation to greater heights in Chinese higher education Nordic library directors assess impact of investments in knowledge and research Librarians and academics discuss STM journal and book publishing

staying connected

TrainingDesk Flash Ask UCD: What are some tips for planning usability activities so they are most effective? Want research summaries by experts? Look to SciTopics ScienceDirect now offers Elsevier Doyma medical collection in Spanish Upcoming Events 2008 Library Connect Editorial Team

New edition of popular LC pamphlet now available
The third edition of “Ways to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide” is hot off the press. Mailed with this newsletter issue, the updated pamphlet is available online at www.elsevier.com/libraryconnect.

ticTOCs makes it easy to keep up with STM journal content

What service allows you to select from thousands of STM journal titles and tick the ones you’re interested in, so you can receive from one source freely available tables of contents from your favorite journals? The answer is ticTOCs — Journal Tables of Contents Service, which provides TOCs from about half the currently published STM journals.

By providing access to the most recent TOCs of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers, including Elsevier, ticTOCs helps users stay current with the most recent issues of journals covering a wide range of subjects.

Using ticTOCs, you can:

Find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher,
View the latest TOCs,
Link through (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or open access, allow) to the fulltext of over 250,000 articles, and
Save selected journals to MyTOCs so you can view future TOCs.

The ticTOCs service aggregates TOC RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds produced by journal publishers. The content of the TOCs displayed within ticTOCs depends on the information contained in the publishers’ RSS feeds. RSS feeds exported via ticTOCs are the publishers’ own feeds. Using ticTOCs, you can export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular readers such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).

ticTOCs' links to articles are to the fulltext or landing pages on publishers’ websites. Besides Elsevier journals, ticTOCs' content covers journals from Cambridge University Press, Emerald, IEEE, John Wiley and Sons, Inderscience Publishers, Informa (Taylor and Francis), Institute of Physics, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Sage Publications, Springer-Verlag, Wolters Kluwer and over 400 other publishers.

The JISC Users & Innovations Programme has funded ticTOCs. The service has been developed by an international consortium, headed by the University of Liverpool Library and also including CrossRef, Cranfield University, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Emerald, Heriot-Watt University, Inderscience Publishers, Institute of Physics, Intute, MIMAS, Open J-Gate, ProQuest, RefWorks and SAGE Publishers.

www.tictocs.ac.uk

Resource

Rogers, L. (October 2008). RSS and scholarly journal tables of contents: The ticTOCs project, and good practice guidelines for publishers. FUMSI. http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3356