Keeping up to date with what has been published in scholarly journals is vitally important for almost all researchers. Here’s a new service which can make the process much easier.
ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and Heriot-Watt is one of the fourteen partners who’ve developed it.
ticTOCs helps you find and view the most recent table of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals, from over 400 publishers. It’s therefore an easy way to keep up-to-date with what’s being published in journals on almost any subjects.
You can find journals of interest, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text (where our institutional subscriptions allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can return to the site and view future TOCs (registration (free) is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs.
ticTOCs requires a lot less effort than setting up email alerts or an RSS reader and finding appropriate feeds, though if you already know about RSS, ticTOCs can also help you find and export journal feeds to feedreaders such as Bloglines or Google Reader.
Keep up-to-date with ticTOCs – it only takes a tick or two. There’s also a News from ticTOCs blog.
I can thoroughly recommend this service.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
11 December 2008 at 4:27 pm |
[...] I had been doing so well at cutting back on my RSS feeds, but then I bumped into Roddy Macleod at Online Information. He reminded me about the ticTOCs service and then today I spotted their posting about the service in spineless?. [...]
19 December 2008 at 10:21 am |
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3 April 2009 at 12:37 pm |
[...] of the freely available ticTOCs journal tables of contents service (the launch of the service was reported in spineless? on 10 December last [...]