JTOCs 2 Go
Set up and easily customize a journal table of contents service (presumably based on Scopus collection but ideally regardless of publisher or source platform). Links can be configured to a institutional license (OpenURL or Proxy) to enable full-text access and linked into existing apps such as Share, ScriverNote, and Mendeley Readers (either individual citations or batch). Display must be clean (citation & abstract).
Value for Users
There is a significant deficiency in market on distributed JTOC service, never mind in mobile. There's the PubMed mobile, but its collection is limited in allied health information and clunky in facilitating institutional access to full-text. This app must be able to pull in most journals in most biosci/med disciplines and distribute its TOC through this app and most importantly, easily configurable with institutional full-text licenses privileges.
Application Users
This app would be snapped up by any academic or librarian in any scientific field. Most TOC services are clunky for individuals to set up and/or very difficult to configure to utilize institutional licenses with a single click. Most TOCs are cluttering up inboxes and/or set up and abandoned as they are not linked into share functions that users can easily use.
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13 Comments
I like this app specifically if it can handle OpenURL and Proxy. Libraries get their online journals from wherever is the cheapest and most effective source. This isn’t always the publisher. Also there are publisher’s like LWW and Elsevier who have different online journal sites for libraries vs. individual subscribers. This makes getting the TOC’s from journals difficult because there is no one stop shop to do it. You could theoretically bodge it together in PubMed but PubMed does not always include the entire journal’s contents for that month and you might miss something (especially if that journal is only partially indexed like Science).
If this app can be a one stop shop for eTOCs allowing seemless jumpint to the full text through insitution’s online subscriptions (from a variety of vendors), then this app fullfills a big need.
I agree, a one-stop solution for eTOCs would be quite useful, particularly to those following a discipline with broad coverage (many journals to follow), and for the librarians that serve them!
As the Krafty Librarian pointed out, a wide variety of publishers/providers accessible by one app would be great. I would indeed snap it up and advertise widely in my organization. I like this app very much, if it operates regardless of publisher/provider.
I like this idea. Anything that allows me to unsubscribe from TOCs that fill up my email inbox would be very worthwhile.
If this app comes to fruition, let me know asap! I and several colleagues have been struggling for years to provide TOCs to our clients. This solution is long overdue.
omg I need this app pronto! My library clients LOVE to receive journal table of contents but it is SO clunky and labour intensive to set them up. Having an app for that would REALLY be helpful and I’d implement it in a second!
Working as a library assistant, I’ve set up or forwarded countless email TOCs. They are popular, but not elegant. As a current student, I would love to have this app! It would be pretty great to read the latest articles at the bus stop.
It’s hard to believe this app doesn’t already exist. We need it now
What a great app idea. I’d certainly snap it up!
this is a bit specific, but we’ve been tearing out hair out trying to get RSS feeds to function with our WAM-style proxy. If Elsevier could make this app function with the prefix/infix method that Innovative Interfaces uses, that would be huge. Other services like LibGuides could display the feeds, but since they don’t handle our style of proxy, we have no way of making sure that users off our network can access the content, even if we subscribe.
I too like this idea, but, like a number of the other ideas, this requires that the App has continual access to the TOCs (in this case) of ALL the journals of interest to the people who would love to have it. That means a very substantial development and maintenance effort to access and collect these TOCs regularly. The process involved is not dissimilar to that of federated searching or a discovery service, and they are not simple to produce or maintain. It’s a great service, but it will not come cheap – either in money or open source time to maintain it if that is the development route. Authentication and authorization are two other issues that are rather heavy weight to implement and maintain.
Great idea! Hope this apps will be on the top of vote (Currently is =) )
It is really a good idea to have JTOCs 2 Go app to have access wherever to required articles.