ticTOCs time has come (CSA)

ticTOCs time has come

Roddy MacLeodHeriot Watt UniversityR.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.ukhttp://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/tictocsCSA.ppt

ProQuest CSA European Library Council15 May, 2007, Lisbon

The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a 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.

Journals industry

120,000+ journals currently being published. 25,000 of these are 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”

Journal content

Backruns

Latest Issues

Researchers

Publishers

Authors

Latest Issues

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

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

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.

“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 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004)

Enter the RSS feed

13 Publishers in March 2005 - 1,139 titles 38 Publishers October 2006 - 7,000+ titles

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 PublishersPLoS 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

RefWorks

RSS is currently not very user friendly

XML RSS RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0 RSS 0.91 PRISM Atom ONIX

Geeksville

The ticTOCs solution: Where?

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

The ticTOCs solution: How?

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

Interactive Web environment

SelectPersonaliseAggregate

Display

The ticTOCs solution: How?

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

Interactive Web environment

SelectPersonaliseAggregate

Display

Re-use/embed

Gateways, VLEs

Connotea

Export

The ticTOCs solution: How?

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

Interactive Web environment

SelectPersonaliseAggregate

Display

Re-use/embed

Community Networking

Gateways, VLEs

Export

Connotea

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

Interactive Web environment

SelectPersonaliseAggregate

Display

Re-use/embed

Community Networking

ticTOCs Table of Contents www.tictocs.ac.uk

Gateways, VREs

Export

Connotea

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

Interactive Web environment

SelectPersonaliseAggregate

Display

Export Re-use/embed

Community Networking

ticTOCs Table of Contents www.tictocs.ac.uk

Gateways, VREs

Connotea

Library journal lists

Journal of Algebra

Journal of Algorithms

Journal of Alloys

Journal of Applied Finance

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Journal of Applied Mechanics

Journal of Biomechanics

Directory ofTOC RSS

Feeds

Interactive Web environment

SelectPersonaliseAggregate

Display

Re-use/embed

Community Networking

ticTOCs Table of Contents www.tictocs.ac.uk

Gateways, VREs

Export

Connotea

Enable academics and researchers, without having to understand the technical or procedural concepts involved in the process, find, access, search within, be alerted to, aggregate, personalise, export and re-use journal TOCs.

Facilitate the re-use of TOC content by individuals and subject-based services, library services, VLEs, etc, to help showcase research output, and deliver relevant content to researchers.

Enable library and information services (e.g. from journal lists), commercial and open access journal publishers, gateways, content aggregators and journal directories to allow their users to embed journal TOCs, with one click, into ticTOCs.

Encourage the production of standardised journal TOC RSS feeds, and thereby facilitate their interoperability.

ticTOCs Table of Contents www.tictocs.ac.uk

ticTOCs Table of Contentswww.tictocs.ac.uk

Gold Dust

Use ticTOCs logs to develop Personal Interest Profiles (PIPs)

Create silos of RSS content (New content from Institutional Repositories, Calls for Papers, Funding Calls, Patents, Components, Press releases, Industry news, dissertations, etc.)

Use data mining techniques to match PIPs with content

Automatic personalised current awareness service Right information at the Right time in the Right way to

the Right person

Gold Dust