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    January 15th, 2009LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Several hundred more journal Tables of Contents have been added to ticTOCs, where researchers keep up-to-date: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk

    As well as 61 journal TOCs from MedKnow, 82 Open Access journals from Libertas Academics, journals from Palgrave and former Haworth titles, titles from Longwoods Publishing, Living Reviews, IM Publications and more, have been added to ticTOCs during January: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/more-journal-titles-added-to...

    ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.

    ticTOCs has been funded under the JISC Users & Innovations programme, and has been developed by an international consortium consisting of the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.

    ticTOCs home: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
    News from ticTOCs blog: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/
    For more information, contact:
    Roddy MacLeod, ticTOCs Management Support, Heriot-Watt University Library, Edinburgh, UK
    email: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk
    tel: +44 (0)131 451 3576

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    January 15th, 2009LISWire aggregatorLISWire

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