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Hi Derik, I have a PHP script run in Cron that fetches the tictocs file and converts it into XML. The XML file is then parsed when we include it in our OPAC or other sources. This requires that you have PHP compiled with CLI. I can send some sample code if you are interested. If you want to have a look you can do a search for any journal in our OPAC (http://julia.hj.se/F/?func=find-b-0&CON_LNG=eng ) if you need an example look for journal of clinical nursing. Daniel Daniel Forsman Systems librarian Jonkoping University Library Sweden [log in to unmask] +46 (0)36 101043 >>> Derik Badman <[log in to unmask]> 6/11/2009 6:34 PM >>> Hello all, Just joined the list, and I'm hoping to get a suggestion or two. I'm working on using the ticTOCs ( http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ ) text file of rss feed urls for journals to insert links to those feeds in our Serials Solution Journal Finder. I've got it working using a bit of jQuery. Demo here: http://155.247.22.22/badman/toc/demo.html The javascript is here: http://155.247.22.22/badman/toc/toc-rss.js Getting that working wasn't too hard, but I'm a bit concerned about efficiency and caching. I'm not sure the way I'm checking isbns against the text file is the most efficient way to go. Basically I'm making an ajax call to the file that takes the data and makes an array of objects. I then query the isbn of each journal on the page against the array of objects. If there's a match I pull the data and put it on the page. I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this, especially since the text file is over 1mb. I'm not looking for code, just ideas. I'm also looking for any pointers about using the file itself and somehow auto-downloading it to my server on a regular basis. Right now I just saved a copy to my server, but in the future it'd be good to automate grabbing the file from ticTOCs server on a regular basis and updating the one on my server (perhaps I'd need to use a cron job to do that?). Thanks for much for any suggestions or pointers. (For what it's worth, I can manage with javascript or php.) -- Derik A. Badman Digital Services Librarian Reference Librarian for Education and Social Work Temple University Libraries Paley Library 209 Philadelphia, PA Phone: 215-204-5250 Email: [log in to unmask] AIM: derikbad "Research makes times march forward, it makes time march backward, and it also makes time stand still." -Greil Marcus