We’ve said many times that Roddy MacLeod was and is not only an inspiration and motivator to get ResourceShelf started in 2001. Let’s review:
+ Editor of Monthly Internet Resources Newsletter
+ Developer/Leader of TechExtra
+ Founder of EEVL (now part of Intute)
+ A promoter of libraries and librarians.
+ A good person.

However, that’s not enough for Mr. MacLeod. Today, Roddy alerts RS to a new service: ticTOCs

The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for acadmics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents 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.

Fifteen partners are involved in the project. Lead by the University of Liverpool Library, the consortium also 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.

From the ticTOCS Blog:
+ New journal TOC RSS feeds

From the news release:
Note how this service requires little to none knowledge of what RSS is. Smart!!!

The ticTOCS service will 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 from 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.

The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents 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.

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