Eric,

You might be interested to know then that Lund University Libraries, the 
people behind the DOAJ, have been doing this for years, since before 
publisher RSS feeds and NGCs. They make it available to other libraries too 
(for a fee) with your holdings indexed so you can search for full text 
articles only. See 
<http://www.lub.lu.se/en/search/information-about-elinlund.html>

-- 

Laurence Lockton
University of Bath
UK

> Date:    Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:32 -0500
> From:    Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: ticTOCs makes its data available to developers
>
> On 2/11/09 5:11 PM, "Bucknell, Terry" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community
>> extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to
>> us - see
>> http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-prett
>> y-pret ty-please/ - that all you really need (at least at first) is a
>> simple tab-delimited file that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for
>> all of the journals in tocTOCs. We now provide precisely this at
>> http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.
>
>
> This is pretty cool. I can see:
>
>   1. Selecting one or more of the RSS feeds that fit within
>      the collection development policy of a particular library
>
>   2. Regularly visiting the RSS feeds to extract the metadata
>      of newly available articles
>
>   3. Adding that metadata to a library's "next generation"
>      library catalog/index
>
>   4. And you can figure out the rest
>
> Such a thing would be complementary to the article-level metadata
> available from the DOAJ. Hmmm...  ticTOC++
>
> -- 
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
> Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
>
> (574) 631-8604
>
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