ticTOCs Project Will Transform Journal Current Awareness
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, August 18, 2007 --(PR.com)-- ticTOCs is a project to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness. The ticTOCs service will make it easy for academics, researchers and anyone else to find, display, store, combine and reuse journal tables of contents (TOCs) from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. JISC is the primary funder of the ticTOCs project, which will run for two years from April 2007.
A consortium of fifteen partners are involved in the project. Lead by the University of Liverpool Library, the consortium includes Heriot-Watt University, Cranfield University, CrossRef, ProQuest, RefWorks, Emerald, Nature Publishing Group, SAGE Publishers, Institute of Physics, Inderscience Publishers, MIMAS, Directory of Open Access Journals, Open J-Gate and Intute.
Efficient journal current awareness services are of the highest importance to researchers and academics, whatever their discipline. Ensuring efficient and easy access to the contents of the latest journal publications is also important for publishers of scholarly journals, a business which is estimated to be worth $5 billion per annum. Authors of articles in scholarly publications also want their output to be available to as wide an audience as possible, as soon after publication as possible.
The ticTOCs project will develop a freely available service which will benefit not only academics and researchers, publishers and authors, but also service providers such as libraries, aggregators, discovery services and journal directories. As such, ticTOCs is likely to become a very important component of the scholarly communications process.
ticTOCS will develop a service to enable academics, researchers and anyone else, without having to understand the technical or procedural concepts involved in the process, to discover, subscribe to, search within, be alerted to, aggregate, export and re-use standardised Table of Contents RSS (really Simple Syndication) feeds and their content for thousands of journals and numerous publishers. In addition, it will facilitate the re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a subject basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery services, library services and others, where it can act as a showcase of the latest research output. It will also make it easy for users of library and information services, commercial and open access journal publishers, online gateways, content aggregators and journal directories to subscribe to journal TOC RSS feeds of interest, with one click, via a freely available personalisable web-based interface. ticTOCs will encourage the production of standardised journal TOC RSS feeds, and thereby facilitate their interoperability and improve the quality of their data.
Terry Bucknell, ticTOCs Project Leader, said : “Liverpool University is delighted to be leading this significant development in journal current awareness. ticTOCS will demonstrate how the innovative application of simple technologies enables the easy delivery of valuable services that previously required considerable effort.”
A prototype service is expected to be up and running by April 2008.
The project has been named ticTOCs because part of the service will involve the ticking of selected TOCs (tables of Contents) of interest, from an easy to use online directory of thousands of feeds.
More information about ticTOCs is available at the project website: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ A ticTOCs news blog is also available at: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/
Contact: Joe Hilton, ticTOCs Project Manager, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, Chatham St, PO Box 123 Liverpool, United Kingdom, L69 3DA.
Email: jo555@liverpool.ac.uk
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A consortium of fifteen partners are involved in the project. Lead by the University of Liverpool Library, the consortium includes Heriot-Watt University, Cranfield University, CrossRef, ProQuest, RefWorks, Emerald, Nature Publishing Group, SAGE Publishers, Institute of Physics, Inderscience Publishers, MIMAS, Directory of Open Access Journals, Open J-Gate and Intute.
Efficient journal current awareness services are of the highest importance to researchers and academics, whatever their discipline. Ensuring efficient and easy access to the contents of the latest journal publications is also important for publishers of scholarly journals, a business which is estimated to be worth $5 billion per annum. Authors of articles in scholarly publications also want their output to be available to as wide an audience as possible, as soon after publication as possible.
The ticTOCs project will develop a freely available service which will benefit not only academics and researchers, publishers and authors, but also service providers such as libraries, aggregators, discovery services and journal directories. As such, ticTOCs is likely to become a very important component of the scholarly communications process.
ticTOCS will develop a service to enable academics, researchers and anyone else, without having to understand the technical or procedural concepts involved in the process, to discover, subscribe to, search within, be alerted to, aggregate, export and re-use standardised Table of Contents RSS (really Simple Syndication) feeds and their content for thousands of journals and numerous publishers. In addition, it will facilitate the re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a subject basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery services, library services and others, where it can act as a showcase of the latest research output. It will also make it easy for users of library and information services, commercial and open access journal publishers, online gateways, content aggregators and journal directories to subscribe to journal TOC RSS feeds of interest, with one click, via a freely available personalisable web-based interface. ticTOCs will encourage the production of standardised journal TOC RSS feeds, and thereby facilitate their interoperability and improve the quality of their data.
Terry Bucknell, ticTOCs Project Leader, said : “Liverpool University is delighted to be leading this significant development in journal current awareness. ticTOCS will demonstrate how the innovative application of simple technologies enables the easy delivery of valuable services that previously required considerable effort.”
A prototype service is expected to be up and running by April 2008.
The project has been named ticTOCs because part of the service will involve the ticking of selected TOCs (tables of Contents) of interest, from an easy to use online directory of thousands of feeds.
More information about ticTOCs is available at the project website: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ A ticTOCs news blog is also available at: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/
Contact: Joe Hilton, ticTOCs Project Manager, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, Chatham St, PO Box 123 Liverpool, United Kingdom, L69 3DA.
Email: jo555@liverpool.ac.uk
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