Journal current awareness: past, present & future
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The document discusses the evolution of journal current awareness services, highlighting their significance for researchers and publishers in the digital age. It provides an overview of email alerts, RSS feeds, and access to tables of contents from a variety of journals, emphasizing the challenges and advancements in this area. The author also notes the importance of personalization and user-friendly interfaces in enhancing the accessibility of scholarly information.
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Journal current awareness: past, present & future
- 1. Journal current awareness: past, present & future Roddy MacLeod Heriot Watt University [email_address] Aslib: Engineering information: past, present & future 22nd Nov 2006
- 2. Journal Current Awareness Three ages of journal current awareness
- 4. A blatant plug www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/ Free, monthly, UK-based Web and email, plus TOC RSS feed 40,000 subscribers to email version Academics - sci-tech, soc-sci, etc Notable web sites, press releases, book reviews, blogorama, Web 2.0, etc
- 5. Journals PubList - 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals. 20,000 – 25,000 Peer Reviewed. 60% published online (90% US/UK English language published online). Publisher revenues $5 billion STM journals UK HE journal subs = £94.5 million 200,000 researchers UK, 5.5 million globally “ UK scholarly journals: 2006 baseline report”
- 6. Journals Backruns Latest Issues Researchers Publishers Authors
- 10. Email TOCs IngentaConnect Email Alerts CSIRO Early Alert Zetoc Alert SARA – Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (Taylor & Francis) SpringerLink TOC Alerting Wiley InterScience E-mail Alerts SAGE Journal Email Alerts WorldSciNet Table of Contents Updates Inderscience TOC Alerting
- 11. Email TOCs zetoc Alert results for list dff4qj belonging to hwulibram For details of the terms and conditions for use of this Alert see http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/conditions.html JOURNAL OF INTERNET COMMERCE VOL 5; NUMB 1; 2006 ISSN 1533-2861 pp. 1-22 Small Business Electronic Commerce Implementation: A Case Study. Noyes, E.; MacInnes, I. http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/wzgw?terms=RN195147345&field=zid .....
- 12. Email TOCs – link to issue IEEE Xplore - Tables of Contents Alerts Now available at http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore =============================================== The latest issues of the IEEE and/or IEE periodicals you selecte are now available in IEEE Xplore. Click on a link below to go directly to the table of contents . Internet Computing, IEEE Volume: 10, Issue: 2 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4236&isvol=10&isno=2
- 13. Email TOCs - popularity Publisher A – 1,000 journals 158,490 subscribers to email TOC alerts 1,622,466 TOC alerts set up Aggregator B 15,910 alerts containing 173,224 TOCs
- 14. Email TOCs – require effort Your ZETOC Alert list called dff4qj belonging to the Athens username hwulibram is due to expire on Wed 21 Jun 2006. If you do not renew your list before this date it will be deleted from the system and you will no longer receive the table of contents of the journals in this list or results from your author/keyword searches You will continue to receive these weekly reminders by email until either you renew the list or the list expires. To renew your ZETOC Alert list:…..
- 15. The disappeared or transformed ChemWeb email alerts Cambridge Journals Online IDEAL Online Library – then – Elsevier ContentsDirect – now through ScienceDirect Oxford Journals Content Alerting
- 16. The transforming Dear Table of Contents alert member, We are currently working on ensuring that the Emerald Table of Contents alert is of the highest standard possible, unfortunately our desire to make an alert service of the highest quality has meant that the launch of this functionality has been delayed. We are hoping to resume the Table of Contents alerts service shortly, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
- 17. Email TOCs - problems “ Some users reported that the alerts they themselves had set ‘haunted them’. I have exactly the same feeling, as sometimes it feels like the alerts I have set for myself are self-inflicted spam” Jonas Holmstrom: Report on 8 th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004)
- 18. Enter the RSS feed 13 Publishers in March 2005 with 1,139 titles 38 Publishers October 2006 with more than 7,000 titles
- 19. TOC RSS Feeds http://www.liv.ac.uk/Library/techserv/ejrnl/rss.html
- 20. TOC RSS feeds American Chemical Society American Institute of Physics American Physical Society arXiv e-print archive Atypon Link (was Extenza) BioMed Central Blackwell Synergy BMJ Journals Cambridge Journals Online Cell Press International Union of Crystallography EDP Sciences Emerald Engineering Village 2 (Compendex) HighWire Press IEEE Computer Society Digital Library IEEE Xplore Ingenta Connect Institute of Physics Karger Publishers Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Nature Publishing Group New England Journal of Medicine New Scientist New Statesman Oxford University Press Peeters Publishers PLoS Project MUSE ProQuest Dissertations and Theses PsycARTICLES Royal Society of Chemistry SAGE Publications Science SIAM Springer Symposium Journals The University of Chicago Press Wiley InterScience Zetoc
- 27. RefWorks
- 32. User non-friendly XML RSS RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0 RSS 0.91 PRISM Atom ONIX
- 34. Geeksville
- 35. KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
- 36. Where? Directory of TOC RSS Feeds
- 37. How? Directory of TOC RSS Feeds Interactive Web environment Select Personalise Aggregate Display
- 38. How? Directory of TOC RSS Feeds Interactive Web environment Select Personalise Aggregate Display Export RefWorks, Connotea, etc Re-use Gateways, VREs
- 39. How? Directory of TOC RSS Feeds Interactive Web environment Select Personalise Aggregate Display Export RefWorks, Connotea, etc Re-use Community Networking Gateways, VREs
- 40. Directory of TOC RSS Feeds Interactive Web environment Select Personalise Aggregate Display Export RefWorks, Connotea, etc Re-use Community Networking ticTOC Table of Contents www.tictoc.info Gateways, VREs
- 41. Directory of TOC RSS Feeds Interactive Web environment Select Personalise Aggregate Display Export RefWorks, Connotea, etc Re-use Community Networking ticTOC Table of Contents www.tictoc.info Gateways, VREs
- 42. Journal of Algebra Journal of Algorithms Journal of Alloys Journal of Applied Finance Journal of Applied Geophysics Journal of Applied Mechanics Journal of Biomechanics
- 43. Directory of TOC RSS Feeds Interactive Web environment Select Personalise Aggregate Display Export RefWorks, Connotea, etc Re-use Community Networking ticTOC Table of Contents www.tictoc.info Gateways, VREs Publishers
- 44. “ TOCosphere” Web 2.0 concepts in the smart discovery, display, aggregation, recombination, synthesization, output and reuse of standardised journal TOC RSS feeds from numerous different sources, presented in a personalisable and interactive web-based interface that requires little or no understanding, by the user, of the technical or procedural concepts involved, with suitable benefits to the supply side (publishers).
- 45. KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid