Scholarly journals - new free service makes keeping up-to-date easy

Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service

ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It's free, easy to use and 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.

Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and in addition you can import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).

You select TOCs by ticking those of interest - thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).

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.

For the full press release, please see: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/scholarly-journals-new-free-service-makes-keeping-up-to-date-easy/

UKeiG - 2009 Management Committee

UKeiG is pleased to announce that the UKeiG Management Committee for 2009 is as follows:

Officers

Martin White, Chair
Charles Oppenheim, Hon. Treasurer
Karen Blakeman, Hon. Secretary

Committee Members

Liane Bradbrook
Janet Corcoran
Karen Gravett
Gary Horrocks (Immediate Past Chair)
Tracy Kent
Gina Nason
Megan Roberts
Clare Sinclair
Michael Upshall
Sheila Walker
Anne Welsh (co-opted)

The new committee officially takes over on 1 January 2009

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Karen Blakeman
UKeiG Honorary Secretary, Web Site Liaison
mailto:karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk
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UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP
Registered Charity Number: 313014

Additional date for Web 2.0 in Real Life

The workshop on Web 2.0 in Real Life to be held on Tuesday 21st April is now full. The event is being repeated on the following day, Wednesday 22nd April, at the same venue. (The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool).

Full details and a booking form are available on the UKeiG web site.

Innovation in e-Information - conference update

Encouraging creative thinking and discussion amongst information professionals

The information industry is in a continual state of change and information professionals need to stay one step ahead of the game if they are to be seen as champions for change and innovation in organisations.

UKeiG is hosting ‘Innovation in e-information' - a state of the art conference on 16-17 June 2009 – in order to drive this agenda forward. The event will provide information professionals from across the e-information industry with the opportunity to expand their skills and knowledge; and to explore issues of strategic significance across the industry, including the role that e-information professionals play in adding value to the business and enhancing competitive edge through innovation and creative thinking.

This major UKeiG event will bring together experienced practitioners in many fields of e-information to share and discuss the key issues impacting on service delivery across all sectors. Active delegate participation will be key with opportunities to discuss future issues, share experiences and formulate practical, innovative solutions to emphasise the pivotal role of information professionals in driving, supporting and demonstrating effective information management.

Delegates will have the opportunity not just to receive expert guidance on the important issues of the day and the future, but also to discuss practical implementation in breakout sessions. There will also be plenty of time for socialising and informal networking with drinks and a conference dinner on the night of June 16 th .

Since 1978 the UK eInformation group has been encouraging the exchange of knowledge about electronic information. The programme will draw on some of the key players and leading lights who have taken the group forward over the years. Speakers include:

• E4Enterprise: Understanding your customers' future needs. Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Director of the John Rylands University Library Manchester
  
  
• Waves of Innovation: Signposts to a new web of information. Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, Talis
  
  
• The constant gardener and the ecosystem at work. Nic Price, Independent adviser in online strategy and user-centred design
  
  
• Managing digital images: Improving the customer experience. Roger Mills, Head of Science Liaison & Specialist Services, Oxford University Library Services
  
  
• The Long Arm of the E-law, or to put it another way – You can run but can you hide? Laurence Bebbington, Faculty Team Leader, University of Nottingham
  
  
• Using a risk management approach to build successful einformation business cases. Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd
  
  
• Making sense of Web 2.0: a personal and organisational journey. Ross Scrivener, Programme Manager, Royal College of Nursing
  
  
• When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure. Hazel Hall, Reader, School of Computing, Napier University

Breakout sessions are intended to be topical, so may change. Current themes include:

• Innovative search techniques: how do you do yours? Facilitator: Karen Blakeman
  
  
• Avoiding legal problems. Risks and Rights – a discussion. Facilitator: Charles Oppenheim
  
  
• Increasing the value of your intranet. Facilitator: Martin White
  
  
• A picture is worth a thousand words: practical solutions for managing digital images. Facilitator: Roger Mills
  
  
• The future of online publishing – are we leading the way? Facilitator: Nick Evans
  
  
• Information security – key issues for the information profession. Facilitator: Lucy Burrow, Head of IT policy and process, ISS, King's College London

The conference will be held at the Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester .

More details, registration enquiries and biographies of the speakers can be found at www.ukeig.org.uk