On Friday I was invited to participate in a workshop for the JournalTOCsAPI project at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. I didn’t think I was going to make it at all due to the awful flooding in Cumbria and we were told at one point that trains were travelling no further than Carlisle due to the weather and that Scotland was effectively out of bounds – the tracks must have been dry enough, however, and I arrived just in time for Lisa Roger’s introductory presentation “JournalTOCs Workshop – Introduction & Feedback”:
Then came Jenny Delasalle, Repository manager at Warwick University and chair of UKCORR, talking about “Repositories and Alerting Services”:
The third presentation was given by Santy Chumbe, the JournalTOCs Project manager, on behalf of Anne Dixon from the British Geological Survey who helped to test the first use case for the JournalTOCs project:
I was next up presenting on Bibliosight – though it remains to be seen just how relevant this will continue to be as we learn more about WS Lite:
Finally Phil Barker presented on “The Other Side of the Interface” which I found a most engaging re-evaluation of our developing repository/research infrastructure as a complex and dynamic “ecosystem” full of interacting (and evolving) entities and processes:
Thanks to the JournalTOCs team for an enjoyable and informative event, to Jenny and Phil for their presentations and to Helen Muir and Colin Smith (Repository Manager at the Open University) for their insights throughout the day. It was particularly interesting for me to listen to Jenny and Colin discuss their respective practices at WRAP and the ORO – both examples of successful and well established Open Access repositories at major research institutions with much greater numbers of research outputs than Leeds Met – I certainly learnt a great deal about how I might use alerting services, including the JournalTOCsAPI, to alert me to new publications that I can pursue for the OA research repository at Leeds Met and, along with bibliosight and WS Lite I shall aim to integrate some of what I learned into my workflows over the coming months.
