SFX Target for ticTOCs' feed URLs

Please note I: This page is under construction and only provides a summary of our current finding - without guaranteeing completeness & correctness. Feel free to add your comments or to modify the text.

Please note II: Meanwhile the journalTOCs project provides an API on the feed URLs collected by ticTOCs. Thus it would be possible to implemented a plugIn instead of loading the object portfolios.

Idea and Example

The ticTOCs project collected more than 12,000 journal feeds from over 400 publishers and offers an intuitive web interface on the top. The project team share the source data with the community, thus the information can be loaded into the SFX knowledge base to offer a link to a specific journal feed via the SFX service menu.

Example: http://tinyurl.sfx.mpg.de/q4r3
Blog Post: http://blog.vlib.mpg.de/some-appetite-for-table-of-contents-feeds/

Prepare the target setup

1. Connect to SFX admin
2. Go to the "Targets" section to add a new target by providing following information:
   • Target: TICTOCS_LCL
   • Public Name: ticTOCs
   • Services: getTOC  or getCitedJournal   (this requires a minor modification of the Bulk::BULK target parser to support the method]
3. Modify the corresponding target service by adding
   • Public Name: RSS feed for table of contents via
   • Parser: Bulk::BULK
   • [optional] Displayer: WWW::TICTOC   (only required to display the RSS button right after the target name)
   • Object Lookup: Yes
4. [optional] Upload following files to your server   (only required to display the RSS button right after the target name)
   • TICTOC.pm - to location sfx_version3/[SFX_INSTANCE]/lib/Parsers/TargetDisplayer/WWW
   • get_target_name_TICTOC.tmpl - to location: sfx_version3/[SFX_INSTANCE]/templates/sfxmenu/services
   • rss.png - to location: sfx_version3/[SFX_INSTANCE]/templates/img/sfxmenu

Notes

• if you decided to choose the getCitedJournal service (as we have), you need to localize your Bulk::BULK target parser by adding:

  -> we submitted this change as enhancement to ExLibris

Load the ticTOCs data

1. Download the data file from http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php
2. Open the file in your calculation or editor tool (like Excel) and make following modifications:
   • in the feed URL column, replace all "&" by "%26"
   • add a the string "jkey=" to all feed URLs, e.g. by replacing "http" by "jkey=http"
   • copy the eISSN value to the ISSN cell if this is empty
   • remove all entries without value in the ISSN cell
   • move the ISSNs to the first column
   • move the journal feed to the second column
   • save the file
3. Select the "DataLoader" tool in the SFX admin
   • Select Target + Service: TICTOCS_LCL
   • Specify input file name: [SFX:your file]
   • Column 1 (Primary Key): ISSN
   • Column 2: PARSE_PARAM
   • Load Type: Add Portfolios

Notes

• While modifying the data file you may notice that quite a lot of journals lack an ISSN. You may use the "Lookup Tool" to improve the rate, but this will require some manual checking. We communicated our findings to the ticTOCs team which hopefully will result in more ISSNs in the data file
• For some ISSNs more than one journal feed URL is available, e.g.
  1 Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue/rss 0028-0836 1476-4679
  15721 Nature AOP http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/rss.rdf 0028-0836 1476-4679
  SFX will only create one object portfolio (using the information from the first entry). Therefore, we decided to delete duplicate ISSNs from our loader file