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Breakout session: The ticTOCs Project - transforming current awareness |
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Terry Bucknell and Roddy MacLeod |
16 May 2008 |
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Terry Bucknell, University of Liverpool, and Roddy MacLeod, Heriot-Watt University, presented this session in five parts: a short background; an introduction to the project; a demonstration of two ticTOCs beta sites; a discussion of standards and best practice; and a feedback section.
A background to scholarly journal current awareness was given. This has seen a progression from physical displays of current journals, to email Tables of Contents (TOCs), and today a growing number of TOC RSS feeds being provided by numerous journal publishers.
Then there was an introduction to the ticTOCs project, which is developing a freely available journal current awareness service, aiming to make it easy for researchers and academics to find, display, store, combine and reuse journal TOCs from multiple publishers in a personalisable website, and also to facilitate the export of TOC RSS feeds to feedreaders of choice.
This was followed by a demonstration of two ticTOCs beta sites.
The next section showed the importance of standards in the context of TOC RSS feeds, and gave further information on the forthcoming ticTOCs/CrossRef recommendations for best practice and standardisation of journal TOC RSS feeds. Attendees strongly welcomed the idea of recommendations for good practice.
The final section invited feedback from the attendees on several ticTOCs developments which are currently under planning. Generally speaking, opinion seemed divided over the idea of searching within all items stored in ticTOCs; was strongly in favour of the idea of exporting items to bibliographic management software from within ticTOCs; was in favour of the idea of alerts by email or other format; was strongly in favour of the idea of filtering of long TOCs; and was in favour of the idea of re-presenting aggregated feeds at other sites and services.
Slides from the session are available.
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