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Journal table of contents service

shirley — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:05:43 +0000

nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/…

This project created a fully functioning suite of facilities dedicated to journal current awareness, based upon RSS feeds and Web 2.0 technologies. This ‘TOCosphere’ enables the smart aggregation, recombination, synthesization, output and reuse of standardised journal TOC RSS feeds and their content.

JACS-Beta Mobile Table Of Contents / Articles

shirley — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:37:10 +0000

nbsp;http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/200…

The goal of this beta project is to create the most useful and enjoyable mobile experience possible. Specifically, this project focuses on browsing Tables of Contents.

source: Moble libraries blogspot

Using TicToc RSS feed collection

shirley — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:53:33 +0000

http://internal.ulib.sk/indico/elag/prezentacie/van_boheemenl.pdf

PP presentation

TRANSFORMING CURRENT AWARENESS THROUGH RSS

shirley — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:51:20 +0000

nbsp;http://eprints.rclis.org/16060/

This paper looks at the current situation with respect to RSS and then reports upon the findings of the ticTOCs and Gold Dust projects. We will look at the lessons learnt from developing the ticTOCs service, and also report on two iterations of the Gold Dust development and use cycles. We will deliver an appraisal of the effectiveness of the raft of techniques being employed by Gold Dust. How effective are current data mining and pattern matching techniques for such an application? How useful is RSS metadata in this context? These findings will be of considerable pertinence both for future services which may use RSS Feeds, and for future research and development in the area of adaptive personalisation using RSS.

source: News from ticTOCs

Feed Navigator for Medical Journals and Sites

shirley — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:32:48 +0000

nbsp;http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednaviga…

Create a personal MyFeed ‘river of news’ front page loaded with the freshest medical information about the subjects you are interested in. Search and browse 4344 medical sources updated continuously.
FeedNavigator downloads medical feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content into a single feed, latest news first. Customize this feed by selecting your favorite medical publications and search keywords.

The FeedNavigator is fully made in Terkko. It’s uncommercial and free for all. It’s easy to use:

At first click the category name on the top of the screen. (News, Blogs etc.)
Build your MyFeed by choosing your favorite sources by clicking the boxes on the

ticTOCs : Péter’s Digital Reference Shelf

shirley — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:24:08 +0000

nbsp;http://www.gale.cengage.com/reference/pe…

Peter Jacso’s review:

“In the era when many expect even traditional library and information services to talk, sing and dance, to show photographs of the authors and play video interviews with them, a Table of Contents (TOC) service may not be that exciting. It is for me, as I know from practice how much time one can save by using such a service. In my salad days, when I was in charge of an information and computer science library, an indexing/abstracting unit and a small software development unit (an unusual but extremely educative combination), the highlight of the week was when I thumbed through the most recent issues of the dozens of journals to see the latest developments in the hardware, software and “dataware” arenas”
and more….From Peter Jacso

12,000 TOCs in ticTOCs

shirley — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:45:57 +0000

nbsp;http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

ticTOCs, the free Journal Tables of Contents Service, now contains TOCs for over 12,000 scholarly journals from 436 publishers.