Electronic Table of Contents Distribution
I am still investigating how I can deliver the Table of Contents to our online journals to our users.
The Librarian on the Loose commented that they subscribe to the online journal feed from the journal, then use a rule in their mailbox that recognizes it, and automatically forwards it to their users with a "This is from your Wonderful Library" cover.
I think that might work great for things like JAMA and NEJM that we get directly from the publisher. But journals that we get online through Ovid, Ebsco, etc.? What are my options?
I am currently experimenting with PubMed. I am trying to determine if that might work. Can I set up a current awareness search that only gives me the latest articles loaded into PubMed? How closely does that reflect the journal's table of contents for the month? Then is it possible to have to emailed to me and use and email rule to distribute it to my users? If so will the full text links work, if I selected the correct providers in LinkOut?
So many questions. What would be nice is if we could have a Table of Contents Service provider that sent out the Table of Contents of your subscribed online journals and provided the correct online link depending on the provider you use. Similar to what Serials Solutions and Ebsco do for online access to electronic journals. The library administrator logs on, selects the journals that they want the table of contents from, then selects the source by which they get online access. For example you get Academic Medicine through Ovid. When the new issue is available the service sends the TOC to the users with direct links to the articles from Ovid.
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Coincidentally, I have a call in to OVID tech support on this very topic. I will post their reply here when I receive it.
Here's the semi-solution suggested by OVID:
"Hi David,
Per our phone conversation, I am forwarding information about how to create an alert to provide new information when a new issue of a journal becomes available.
As I said in our phone conversation, we actually do not have the specific function to do exactly what you want. I suggest the following:
Create an alert in Journals@Ovid for the title of the journal with the extention â.jnâ. There is a bit of a problem when the title of the journal has spaces. In this case, you need to enter â%20â for each space. Below are some examples of journal searches to be entered as alerts:
Jama.jn
Academic%20Medicine.jn
Note: when you create an alert in Journals@Ovid, you will receive an e-mail every day. If there are new results, the records will be e-mailed to you. This does not bring you to the TOC, but provides you with new records, when the new issue is entered into the Journals@Ovid database.
If you have any additional questions or problems, feel free to contact Technical Support further.
Best Regards,
Jean
... [Detailed Contact information removed as a courtesty to OVID Tech Support.]"
This is a really funky workaround but you can create an SDI with the following search
academic medicine $.tv.
limit 1 to daily update
You'll get 20 or so empty emails before you get the notification that there is a new Tables of Contents Volume/Issue (TV) available in the daily update.
I've played with this before and don't use it myself since I don't want that many empty daily emails.
It would be great if OVID would a new TC service available (without additional costs.
Bruce Abbott
Science Assessment Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
babbot@cox.net
Bruce-
Perhaps you could set up your email filters to automatically delete the "empty" emails and only keep the ones with content you want. To be sure, OVID should develop a service to meet this need, but until then this is a feasible work-around.
Best,
-David
We have asked Ovid for something like this for the past two years. Each time I hope they have come up with something or I hope I talked to somebody who did not know anything the last time....
I tell you its frustrating paying them all of the dollars and then turning around and being the ones begging for a service that is SO basic.
Chris B-
Good news. You can now track OVID's progress on this topic pretty conveniently. I just got this email from OVID:
"Hi David,
Other customers have requested this functionality as an enhancement to our software. It is being considered for inclusion in our upcoming interface. The report number, to track progress on this issue is CCS # 26013.
I will check on this periodically for you and update you with any additional information I find.
Best Regards,
Jean"
If Ms. Kraft likes, I'd be pleased to pass along to her any updates may receive from Jean(@ovid)so she can consider posting them to her blog.
Best,
-David
David,
That would be GREAT! I would love to post whatever you learn from this. You can email me (email listed on my profile) or leave a comment.
You can use PubMed for tables of contents searches as you proposed. I did it as a test service at a health department library, and it was well received, though not always timely.
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