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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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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 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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October 03, 2008
ticTOCs, Gold Dust and 21st century researchers
October 03, 2008
RSS, current awareness and information overload: How two projects (ticTOCs and Gold Dust) are seeking to improve the information landscape for the 21st century researcher appears in Papers from the Next Generation Environments: Understanding needs, unravelling complexities and applying practice, Users and Innovation Programme Conference, April 2008 (pages ...
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September 26, 2008
9,395 scholarly journal Tables of Contents from 133 publishers now in ticTOCs
September 26, 2008
The full post, with links to the TOCs, is ...
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August 11, 2008
Tell 20,000 people about your project
August 11, 2008
If members of the Emerge Community have project outcomes to publicise, let me know and I'll try to include details in the next Internet Resources Newsletter. All you need is something which is of interest to the academic community, a URL and a concise summary. The August issue of IRN is just out - so you can see the ...
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June 27, 2008
Word clouds
June 27, 2008
Just been playing with Wordle, to create a word cloud from the text of the article about ticTOCs mentioned ...
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June 24, 2008
ticTOCs disseminates
June 24, 2008
There's an article in the new SCONUL Focus about ticTOCs: Taking the pain out of your RSS, by Joe Hilton and Roddy MacLeod, SCONUL Focus, 42, Winter 2007, pp. 42-43.When the next version of ticTOCs is released in the not too distant future, which will include constantly updated content and some other improvements, it will be all systems go to ...
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