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How does this compare to Zetoc at Mimas, which also provides RSS feeds for journal ToCs? Rob On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Boheemen, Peter van wrote: > This is great !!! But don't forget the API ! > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Bucknell, Terry > Sent: woensdag 11 februari 2009 23:12 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers > > As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create > a single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents - > see http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000 > journals from over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get > feeds out of ticTOCs has been to use our web interface to search for > feeds and then export them as an OPML file, or one at a time to a feed > reader of your choice. > > 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-pretty-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. > > We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z > journals list or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs. > We look forward to the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are > all using our data! > > Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are > confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs > is assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be > free. > > > Share and enjoy. > > > > Terry Bucknell > Electronic Resources Manager > Sydney Jones Library > University of Liverpool > Chatham St, PO Box 123 > Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK > Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692 > Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681 >