JournalTOCs Lisa Rogers, Santy Chumbe & Roger Rist Institute for Computer Based Learning - Heriot-Watt University.

JournalTOCsLisa Rogers, Santy Chumbe & Roger Rist

Institute for Computer Based Learning - Heriot-Watt University

Background

• 6 months JISC Rapid Innovation Project

• Allows searching of the latest Tables of Contents of over 12,000 journals from over 420 publishers.

• Content in JournalTOCs collected using ticTOCs Data Set.

• Developing a freely available API. http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/

API Methods

• Journalhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals

• Articleshttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles

• MyTOCShttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/emailAddress

• Registered Institutionhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/applicationID

Journals Examples

• List of Journals whose titles contain keywords i.e. learning technology

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/learning technology

• List of latest articles from a journal given the ISSN i.e. 0906-4710

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/0906-4710

Articles Examples

• Find recent articles published by an Institution i.e. Heriot-Watt University

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/“Heriot Watt University”

• Find recent articles published by an author i.e Dorothy Bishop

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/Dorothy+Bishop

MyTOCs Examples

• List of Journals selected by a user i.e. Roddy MacLeodhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/[email protected]

Institution Example

• Searches across articles that Heriot-Watt University has a subscription tohttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/HeriotWatt/corrosion

Results Format

RSS 1.0 with:

– Dublin CoreModule

– PRISMModule

– ContentModule

Based on RSS

Recommendations

from ticTOCs project

+ <dc:contributor>

for affiliation

Monitoring Journals

Use Case 1

• Identifying new content for IRs– Query by name of institution/author list– Returns a list of articles

• What to do with the results?– Could use the list to find the authors and ask

to manually deposit– Create a new (draft) entry in repository.

Use Case 2

• Metadata Enhancement (i.e. to check/update published status)– Query by title/keywords/author etc.– Returns an article/list of possible matches

• What to do with the results?– Manually check article to see if correct– Correct/update metadata manually– Automatically update entry?

Other Use Cases

• Add RSS Feeds to your library catalogue.

• Researcher Current awareness: Keep up-to-date with articles containing particular keywords.

• Show others journals that you follow.

• Embed localised search results into library website.(Demo) http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/library/

Issues

• We are reliant on publishers providing author affiliation.

• Rely on publishers providing structured metadata in their RSS Feeds.

• Discrimination: How to deal with authors with the same name.

Contact

• Lisa Rogers– [email protected]– @lisajrogers on twitter

• Santiago Chumbe– [email protected]– @santychumbe on twitter