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ticTocs - a Table of Contents Aggregator

ticTOCs is a free service from a non-profit consortium of universities and publishers. It provides an easy way to subscribe to tables of contents from many journals all in one place. Go to www.tictocs.ac.uk to sign up.

  1. Once you're signed in, start by searching for journals that you are interested in following on the left side of the page.
  2. In the search results, check off the titles you desire, and click Add selected to MyTOCs. Those titles will subsequently show up on the right side of the page.
  3. You can set up alerts one journal at a time by clicking on the journal title and then choosing Export feed to... in the center pane.
    On the tab or page that opens, you can then choose
    • E-mail
    • the RSS feed reader you use (such as Google Reader or Bloglines)
    • or RSS Feed, if your reader of choice is not listed
  4. To set up multiple journal alerts at once, in the right pane check off the journals you want, or choose Select All, then click Export Selected.
    • This prompts your computer to save a file called tictocs.opml.
    • Next go to your RSS reader and import this file.
    • In Google Reader, do this by clicking Manage Subscriptions and then the Import/Export tab. Browse for your opml file and click Upload.
    • In Bloglines, click on Edit near the top, left of the page. Import Subscriptions will be on the bottom, left.
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