Doh, is Zetoc not free? Nevermind my excitement about it in that case. :) Jonathan Dr R. Sanderson wrote: > Thanks Terry, a really good comparison! > > One more that I came up with, in thinking about this slightly further > ... ticTOCs is open to the public whereas ZETOC requires an > institutional login to access the data. A big plus on ticTOCs' side! > > Rob > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Bucknell, Terry wrote: > > >> Zetoc covers about 20,000 journals, including journals that are >> print-only, or that exist online but do not provide their own RSS feeds >> ticTOCs covers about 12,000, limited to journals that provide their >> own RSS feeds (so this excludes print-only journals in the main) >> Zetoc is based the British Library's acquisitions of print issues, >> with data re-keyed into to system, which means that it may be a few >> weeks between an issue being published an appearing in Zetoc. >> ticTOCs uses feeds from the publishers (or their online hosts), so >> they are as up to date as the publisher wants to make them. Sometimes >> Zetoc only contains tables of contents >> ticTOCs contains whatever the publisher chooses to include in its >> feed, which may include abstracts, subject terms, DOIs, and graphical >> abstracts (especially for chemistry titles) >> >> So to summarise, Zetoc covers more journals, but ticTOCs should be >> more up to date and contains richer content. >> > >