JournalTOCs - Introduction and Feedback

JournalTOCs Workshop 20/11/09 Introduction and Feedback Lisa Rogers, Santy Chumbe & Roger Rist Institute 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
Journal
http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals
Articles
http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles
MyTOCS
http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/emailAddress
Registered Institution
http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/applicationID

Journals Examples
List of Journals whose titles contain keyword(s) i.e. crystallography
http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api /journals/crystallography
List of latest articles from a journal given the ISSN i.e. 0906-4710
http:// 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 author
http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api /articles/ Dorothy+Bishop
Find recent articles from an Institution http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api /articles/”Heriot Watt University”

MyTOCs Examples
List of Journals selected by a user i.e. Roddy MacLeod http:// www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api / [email_address]

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

Results Format
RSS 1.0 with:
Dublin Core Module
PRISM Module
Content Module
Based on RSS
Recommendations
from 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/Romeo
Some queries returning php errors
Some queries (falsely) returning no hits
May be better to offer the following ways to query API:
Contains
Starts With
Exact Phrase
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?

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