Yes, we're aware that we have feeds for dead journals too and are working on a mechanism to strip those out - but thanks for checking that we knew!
Terry Terry Bucknell Electronic Resources Manager Sydney Jones Library University of Liverpool Chatham St, PO Box 123 Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692 Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Duncan Sent: 19 February 2009 14:25 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers At 05:57 PM 2/18/2009, Terry wrote: >. . . >We have been busy developing more flexible APIs and in the course of >that today we realised that we were including some records that >don't have feeds (and that don't appear in our web interface). We >will make sure that we tidy those up. We also appreciate that we >have some updating to do because of new launches and title >transfers. In the longer term we are looking to publisher-initiated >updates to our database via CrossRef. On the flipside, are you aware that there are also feed URLs for discontinued journals? Somehow a journal that stopped publishing in 1996 or 2000 doesn't seem very feed-worthy. (Most of the ones I encountered were for ScienceDirect journals; publisher-initiated updates aren't all they're cracked up to be if the publisher is creating feeds across the board, regardless of whether there's any new content to feed.) Bob Duncan ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~ Robert E. Duncan Systems Librarian Editor of IT Communications Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 dunc...@lafayette.edu http://library.lafayette.edu/
