Doh, is Zetoc not free? Nevermind my excitement about it in that case. :)
Jonathan
Dr R. Sanderson wrote:
Thanks Terry, a really good comparison!
One more that I came up with, in thinking about this slightly further
... ticTOCs is open to the public whereas ZETOC requires an
institutional login to access the data. A big plus on ticTOCs' side!
Rob
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Bucknell, Terry wrote:
Zetoc covers about 20,000 journals, including journals that are
print-only, or that exist online but do not provide their own RSS feeds
ticTOCs covers about 12,000, limited to journals that provide their
own RSS feeds (so this excludes print-only journals in the main)
Zetoc is based the British Library's acquisitions of print issues,
with data re-keyed into to system, which means that it may be a few
weeks between an issue being published an appearing in Zetoc.
ticTOCs uses feeds from the publishers (or their online hosts), so
they are as up to date as the publisher wants to make them. Sometimes
Zetoc only contains tables of contents
ticTOCs contains whatever the publisher chooses to include in its
feed, which may include abstracts, subject terms, DOIs, and graphical
abstracts (especially for chemistry titles)
So to summarise, Zetoc covers more journals, but ticTOCs should be
more up to date and contains richer content.
