The Electronic Journals A-to-Z now has links to the tables of contents (TOCs) of some 5,200 e-journal titles, all available as RSS feeds.
This means you can subscribe for updates on a particular journal using an RSS feed reader (such as Google Reader or Bloglines), and see easily when new articles are published in that journal.
You’ll be able to spot them as you search the A-to-Z: they’re marked with the standard, orange RSS icon: 
To pick an example at random: the record for the American journal of agricultural economics (issn:0002-9092) looks like this on the A-to-Z:
Clicking on the link opens a page containing the “raw” RSS feed:
But if I paste the address (URL) of that “raw” page into my feed reader (I happen to use Google Reader), I can continue to follow the updated TOCs for that journal, along with any other RSS feeds I’m following, every time I log in:
We’ve added these feeds to the Electronic Journals A-to-Z using information from the JISC ticTOCs service (an incredibly useful directory of RSS-format journal TOCs, available at: www.tictocs.ac.uk) - after they were asked, and agreed to ‘open the box‘ on their data – by making it available in a format which is compatible (after a bit of light hammering!) with the A-to-Z.
- University staff – to find out more about RSS and its potential to help you improve your teaching and research, you might like to check out the “Working Smarter with the Web” workshops, which are being offered across all campuses, and which are bookable via the Portal.
This is great! We’ll definitely include it in the next workshop! Thanks, Paul.
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Hi,
I’m librarian in the Economic Center of the Sorbonne, Paris, France.
I would like to add the TICTOC RSS feeds of table of contents to our AtoZ index.
Searching in Title Wizard by Vendor, I don’t found it.
Could you explain me how to do that ?
Thanks a lot.
Sincerely,
Anna Couthures-Idrizi
Anna,
Sorry for leaving it so long to reply! I must admit I’d forgotten about your comment…
The ticTOCs package is a custom package – i.e. isn’t available to select in the EBSCO Title Wizard – I created it in Excel and uploaded it.
The process goes something like this (I refresh the data every ~6 months):
1. Download and save the latest ticTOCs data from: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php
2. Download your entire holdings from EBSCO A-to-Z as a text file.
3. Look for items in the ticTOCs file that match titles in your EBSCO collection – to do this, I use MS Excel function =COUNTIF().
4. Pull across the resource ID for each matching ticTOCs title using Excel =LOOKUP() – this enables the A-to-Z to ‘marry’ each ticTOCs entry with other package entries for that title.
5. De-duplicate the list, reformat it according to EBSCO’s requirements, and upload it to your A-to-Z!
Hope that makes some sense – would be happy to help further! Please email me – pstainthorp@lincoln.ac.uk
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