New Current Awareness Resource: Keyword Search Metadata and Abstracts From More than 4500 Tech Journals
Here are three current awareness services out of the UK. They are all free. One debuted yesterday while the others have been online for some time. These are the types of services that libraries and individuals used to have to pay for. No more.
The new service that debuted yesterday from techXtra Here's the lowdown.
Keyword search more than 4500 scholarly technology journals to find new/recent content. You can also save your searches as RSS feeds and use an aggregator, place the feeds on web pages, etc. to monitor for new articles on your search terms.
About 400 of the journals are open access and the content is available for free. Most articles offer direct links to full text but you'll need a personal or institutional subscriptions to access the material.
From the Announcement:
TechJournalContents ingests Tables of Contents RSS feeds provided by numerous journal publishers such as Springer, Emerald, Inderscience, Wiley Interscience, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IEEE, Sage, AIP, IMechE, etc,
Search the latest Table of Contents (TOCs) of 12,535 journals collected from 422 publishers. More journals are added continuously.You can start by searching for TOCs by journal title or by keywords (searching 336,025 TOC articles). You also can browse TOCs by publisher or by subject. Then, if you click on a journal title, the latest Table of Contents will be displayed. Free
+ Find 12,715 scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from 448 publishers.
+ View the latest TOC for each journal.
+ Link to the full text of 410,197 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows).
+ Export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders.
Sources:
1) TechXtra (Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, Roddy MacLeaod
2) Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University
3) ticTOCs Consortium consists of: the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.
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