Hola JournalTOCs! Keyword Search More than 12,000 Table-of-Contents and It's Free
Charles Knight alerts us know to JournalTOCs, from the same people who bring us the wonderful (and free) table-of-contents service ticTOCs,(review) ticTocs provides access to over 12,000 tables-of-contents from nearly 500 journals.
This slide presentation (via SlideShare) from a November presentation and from members of the JournalTOCs team gives us some background. The service was introduced as an alpha release at the end of September, 2009. The primary focus of JournalTOCs is it's API. However, the service is easy enough for non-techies (like the ResourceShelf team) to use.
+ Journal TOCs allows users to search (as oppose to just be alerted with ticTOCs) the table-of-contents from more than 12,000 from more than 420 publishers. If those numbers source familiar, they should. Journal TOCs uses the same data set as ticTOCs.
+ The slideshow goes on to give several searching examples (searching for journals, articles, and your personalized, MyTOCs list. It also discusses output (JournalTOCs uses RSS 1.0 with several extra features) and several "cases" on how the service can be used.
+ This page provides several examples of how to construct URLs.
You can start by searching for TOCs by journal title or by keywords (searching 352,703 TOC articles). You also can browse TOCs by publisher or by subject. Click on a journal title, the latest table-of-contents will be displayed.
It's also possible to generate generate TOCs RSS feeds from JournalTOCs and if you like, export them as a single OPML file into any feed aggregator.
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