RSS feeds for Journal Table of Contents

Karen — Thu, 25 May 2006 02:21:26 +0000

For a while, I’ve been using CiteULike to get RSS feeds of the table of contents of new journal issues. Its really useful for journals that CiteULike is able to index table of contents. However, there are several magazines/journals that aren’t available via CiteULike that I’d like to be able to keep a closer eye on more easily. Computers in Libraries, Information Technology and Libraries, and Library Journal to name a few. It would be nice to know if there is something in a particular issue of interest. By not providing this type of RSS feed the publisher is just making my life more difficult. There isn’t always something of interest in every issue and I don’t have time to individually look at publications or at tables of contents every month. So I typically don’t bother to look and check things out unless something is brought to my attention via another means (somebody blogs about it or mentions it to me). I keep hoping that the publishers will change their practices and just make RSS feeds of their tables of contents available via their websites. Particularly publishers who are providing RSS feeds of other content. Sigh, I suppose that I can only hope. That is unless somebody has another suggestion about to to see when a new issues are available and what is in those issues.

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RSS feeds for Journal Table of Contents