Virtual Journal Room: MSU Libraries Table of Contents Service

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Autori principali: Sutherland, Michael, Clark, Jason
Natura: Recurso educativo Open Access
Lingua:en
Pubblicazione: 2009
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Clark, Jason
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Clark, Jason
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contents Virtual Journal Room: MSU Libraries Table of Contents Service Sutherland, Michael Clark, Jason Journal Articles Academic Libraries Electronic Libraries Computer Networks Information Management Library Automation Library Development Library Services Delivery Systems Systems Development Computer System Design Montana State University (MSU) Libraries (where the authors serve as web services librarian and digital initiatives librarian, respectively) is perhaps unique because it has no current periodicals room due to lack of space. As a result, finding current journals for research is difficult for its patrons, who do not always know how or where to locate them. To answer this lack of a physical journal browsing environment, the authors developed a web-based journal TOC distribution system that enabled the delivery of journal articles to users' desktops. The current beta version of their TOC service is linked from their journals page at www.lib.montana.edu/journals. An individual sample of the TOC service is available at www.lib.montana.edu/toc/lis. Their system uses the common XML feed formats Atom and RSS, the Google AJAX Feed API, and some JavaScript (or server-side PHP) working within the Ajax framework to deliver targeted journal content to their users as a series of XHTML pages. The goal was a browsable web environment that enabled article-level access to the multiple journal packages available from MSU Libraries. How the authors were able to customize the MSU Libraries TOC service is detailed, the lessons they learned are enumerated, and the future of the TOC project is discussed.
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spellingShingle Virtual Journal Room: MSU Libraries Table of Contents Service
Sutherland, Michael
Clark, Jason
Journal Articles
Academic Libraries
Electronic Libraries
Computer Networks
Information Management
Library Automation
Library Development
Library Services
Delivery Systems
Systems Development
Computer System Design
Virtual Journal Room: MSU Libraries Table of Contents Service Sutherland, Michael Clark, Jason Journal Articles Academic Libraries Electronic Libraries Computer Networks Information Management Library Automation Library Development Library Services Delivery Systems Systems Development Computer System Design Montana State University (MSU) Libraries (where the authors serve as web services librarian and digital initiatives librarian, respectively) is perhaps unique because it has no current periodicals room due to lack of space. As a result, finding current journals for research is difficult for its patrons, who do not always know how or where to locate them. To answer this lack of a physical journal browsing environment, the authors developed a web-based journal TOC distribution system that enabled the delivery of journal articles to users' desktops. The current beta version of their TOC service is linked from their journals page at www.lib.montana.edu/journals. An individual sample of the TOC service is available at www.lib.montana.edu/toc/lis. Their system uses the common XML feed formats Atom and RSS, the Google AJAX Feed API, and some JavaScript (or server-side PHP) working within the Ajax framework to deliver targeted journal content to their users as a series of XHTML pages. The goal was a browsable web environment that enabled article-level access to the multiple journal packages available from MSU Libraries. How the authors were able to customize the MSU Libraries TOC service is detailed, the lessons they learned are enumerated, and the future of the TOC project is discussed.
title Virtual Journal Room: MSU Libraries Table of Contents Service
topic Journal Articles
Academic Libraries
Electronic Libraries
Computer Networks
Information Management
Library Automation
Library Development
Library Services
Delivery Systems
Systems Development
Computer System Design
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ827449