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ticTOCs (www.tictocs.ac.uk) is a new, scholarly Journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, it’s easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of more than 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It is designed to help 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. You select TOCs by ticking those of interest—thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).

ticTOCs has been developed by a consortium that consists 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 has been funded under the JISC Users and Innovations program (www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_users_and_innovation.aspx).

Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher; view the latest TOC; link through to the full text of more than 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. In addition, you can import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).

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