RSS feeds for EU Bookshop would be an interesting feature for people to notify publications for a theme or for an author. Theorically, it’s offered to the users. But in fact not. See the screen copy below.
See also the post written by Lisa Rogers. October 2008
RSS and Scholarly Journal
Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for
Publishers
Source: http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3356 and the French source:
http://marlenescorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2009/01/08/rss-pour-les-editeurs.html
RSS feeds enable frequently updated content to
be delivered efficiently to users. Users can ‘subscribe' to feeds, where
available from their favourite websites, and subsequently be alerted, through
whichever feed reader they choose to use, whenever new material is available.
RSS is therefore an effective sharing mechanism, as the content, or more often
a brief summary of content, is delivered to users as and when they want to
receive it. Normally associated with news articles and blog updates, RSS can be
used to share many different types of information, such as:
- Text (website updates, job adverts, events, calls for papers, etc. (1))
- Images (known as image streams, i.e. from Flickr)
- Audio (known as podcasts, i.e. radio shows, language learning,
etc.)
- Video (also known as podcasts, or even vodcasts, i.e. lecturers
sharing videos of their lectures)
- Learning Objects, (i.e. from Jorum (2))
A growing number of scholarly journal
publishers provide RSS feeds for their Tables of Contents (TOCs). It is
possible to subscribe to these feeds in order to get the most up-to-date tables
of contents for a particular journal or journals. Subscribing to a feed enables
someone to not only read the latest TOC, but also to share and re-use the
information by publishing it to their blog or adding it as a widget to their
website.
In theory, therefore, anyone can keep fully
up-to-date with all the scholarly journals they want. However, as I have found
from my work on the ticTOCs project, it isn't always that easy….
See also About
libraries and mobile communications
Always on: libraries in a world of
permanent connectivity (Lorcan Demsey)
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276989760
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070
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