JournalTOCs

Workshop

20/11/09

Introduction and FeedbackLisa Rogers, Santy Chumbe & Roger RistInstitute for Computer Based Learning - Heriot-Watt University

Background

6 months JISC Rapid Innovation Project Allows searching of the latest Tables of

Contents of over 12,000 journals from over 420 publishers.

Content in JournalTOCs collected using ticTOCs Data Set.

Developing a freely available API. http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/

API Methods

Journalhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals Articleshttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles MyTOCShttp://

www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/emailAddress Registered Institutionhttp://

www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/applicationID

Journals Examples

List of Journals whose titles contain keyword(s) i.e. crystallographyhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/crystallography

List of latest articles from a journal given the ISSN i.e. 0906-4710http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/0906-4710

Articles Examples

Find recent articles by keyword(s)http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/Open Educational Resources

Find recent articles published by an authorhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/Dorothy+Bishop

Find recent articles from an Institutionhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/”Heriot Watt University”

MyTOCs Examples

List of Journals selected by a user i.e. Roddy MacLeodhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/r.a.macleod@hw.ac.uk

Institution Example

Searches across articles that Heriot-Watt University has a subscription tohttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/HeriotWatt/corrosion

Results Format

RSS 1.0 with: Dublin Core

Module PRISM

Module Content

ModuleBased on RSSRecommendationsfrom ticTOCs project+ <dc:contributor> for affiliation

Monitoring Journals

Use Case 1

Identifying new content for IRs Query by name of institution/author list Returns a list of articles

What to do with the results? Could use the list to find the authors and

ask to manually deposit Create a new (draft) entry in repository.

Use Case 2

Metadata Enhancement (i.e. to check/update published status) Query by title/keywords/author etc. Returns an article/list of possible matches

What to do with the results? Manually check article to see if correct Correct/update metadata manually Automatically update entry?

Feedback Washington State University

“I just saw your message about the TOC API and added it to my iGoogle. I immediately had links to 31 articles recently published by WSU authors!I plan to contact each of the authors to see if we can add their articles to our repository, the WSU Research Exchange. I think I can set up a basic congratulatory message and personalize for each article. At least to begin with I will check each journal’s publishing agreement to see what the policies are regarding IR’s. This seems like it will be a very useful tool.”

Feedback (contd..) Oxford University

“The main way in which I would be using this type of service is in an automated fashion, drawing in the metadata to autosuggest/autocomplete certain fields for the user.”

API Now includes DC, PRISM and Content Modules to extract richer metadata.

Feedback (contd..)

UNL Digital Commons“Give instructions for getting beyond step 1. I mean real instructions. Don't assume I know what you are doing or how it works.”

There is a need to provide better API documentation.

Feedback (Contd…)

Sherpa/Romeo1. Some queries returning php errors2. Some queries (falsely) returning no hits3. May be better to offer the following ways

to query API: Contains Starts With Exact Phrase

4. Would be useful to query by publisher

Feedback (contd..) University of Warwick

“I hope to be able to use it as a way of becoming aware of what our authors are publishing, so that we can write and prompt them to deposit versions with us.”

Timeliness is important here, JournalTOCs provides alerts as soon as paper is published meaning authors still have copy of article to hand.

Other Use Cases

Add RSS Feeds to your library catalogue.

Researcher Current awareness: Keep up-to-date with articles containing particular keywords.

Show others journals that you follow. Embed localised search results into

library website.(Demo) http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/library/

Issues

We are reliant on publishers providing author affiliation.

Rely on publishers providing structured metadata in their RSS Feeds.

Discrimination: How to deal with authors with the same name.

Questions?