TechTips: ticTOC
December 12th, 2008
Locating and accessing the tables of contents from a variety of journal publishers is time-consuming task, if possible at all.
To make finding and subscribing to table of contents RSS feeds a simple process, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has formally launched it’s ticTOCS service. The ticTOCs service aggregates the tables of contents (TOCs) from 11,470 scholarly journals from 422 publishers. 
In addition to the use of ticTOCs are a personal discovery tool, libraries will be able to use these feeds to mash-up custom current awareness services, create more up-to-date subject guides (listing of recent articles in a topic’s ‘hot’ journals), or even to augment catalog records.
The ticTOC site can identify journals of interest by topic, by title, or by publisher, and even subscribe to RSS feeds from specific tables of contents (the “TOCs”) to get alerts of articles and abstracts. You can add all journals, or individual titles, that match a search (subject, title word, or publisher) to your profile with a single click.
This is a free service.
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