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November 28, 2008
6 scholarly journal tables of contents services
November 28, 2008
In my last post, I mentioned the new ticTOCs journal tables of contents service. If you want to compare ticTOCs with (vaguely) similar services you might be interested in this list of six scholarly journal tables of contents ...
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November 27, 2008
new ticTOCs journal tables of contents service now available
November 27, 2008
Rather later than we planned, but the new and improved ticTOCs service is now available.Over 11,000 journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) are included in ticTOCs from more than 300 publishers. You can Search for Tables of Contents, view the latest TOC for each journal, link to the full text of around 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows), export TOC ...
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November 25, 2008
Keeping Current: What's New in Engineering Information?
November 25, 2008
If you're attending Online 2008, you're invited to the following presentation which is part of the STM Information in Focus: Keeping Current: What's New in Engineering Information? Wednesday 3rd December, 12:00 - 12:30 - Theatre D, ...
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November 19, 2008
What journal publishers should know about RSS feeds
November 19, 2008
An informative article by Lisa Rogers has been published in FUMSI. RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers As well as looking at journal Table of Contents RSS feeds and how ticTOCs is developing its service, the article gives some detailed guidelines for publishers on best practice for TOC ...
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November 16, 2008
Full Fat Feeds
November 16, 2008
It's great to see so many projects syndicating their web and blog content over to the site - it means that the community can share and connect in one handy place. Some of the feeds coming over are restricted however, meaning that people have to click through to the original site to view the entire post. I'd like to ...
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October 28, 2008
RSS as an invisible infrastructure
October 28, 2008
There's a new report from Forrester Research entitled "What's Holding RSS Back?". According to Steve Rubel, who has blogged about the report, RSS adoption among consumers is at 11% and of the 89% of those who don't use feeds only 17% say they're interested in using them.It's very interesting to see the Comments on Rubel's post. Some doubt the ...
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October 21, 2008
ticTOCs passes 11,000 TOC mark
October 21, 2008
There are now 11,000 journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) in ticTOCs - where researchers keep up-to-date.A new and improved version of the ticTOCs website will appear shortly - watch this ...
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October 19, 2008
Notes towards Digital Literacy
October 19, 2008
Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one. However, while I've been talking about this a lot, I haven't made many written remarks outside of policy contributions ...
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October 15, 2008
The future is not search
October 15, 2008
It’s becoming pretty obvious that, in the information world, search has a limited future. Let me quickly refine that statement – of course, people will continue to search for things, especially very specific things, or for material in areas new to them – but new methods for finding things will emerge. This is just as well, because the way ...
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October 07, 2008
Tables of Contents in learning, from ticTOCs
October 07, 2008
This is a bit of a test. Below are links to the Tables of Contents (TOCs) of over 50 journals covering various aspects of learning, found by searching ticTOCs. ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology Action Learning: Research and Practice Active Learning in Higher Education Advanced Technology for Learning British Journal of Learning Disabilities Computer Assisted Language Learning Development and Learning in Organizations FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong ...
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