Scholarly journals - new free service makes keeping up-to-date easy

Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service.

http://www.tictocs.ac.uk

ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.

Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and in addition you can import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).

You select TOCs by ticking those of interest - thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).

ticTOCs has been funded under the JISC Users & Innovations programme, and has been developed by an international consortium consisting of the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.

ticTOCs home: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
News from ticTOCs blog: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/
For more information, contact:
Roddy MacLeod, ticTOCs Management Support, Heriot-Watt University Library, Edinburgh, UK
email: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)131 451 3576

It’s All in the Blend?

The SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Edge Hill University is pleased to announce its 4th international conference:

It’s All in the Blend?
Innovation, Research and Development: enhancing learning with technologies Thursday 4th June 2009, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

The SOLSTICE conference attracts colleagues from the higher education sector worldwide wishing to share knowledge, expertise and skills relating relationships between research, innovation, and development to the enhancement of student learning through the intelligent development of technologies.

The 2009 conference will actively explore the ‘blend’ between innovation, research and development of supported and blended online learning and we welcome papers, presentations, demonstrations and posters on the following themes:

• Researching elearning notions of impact and effect using technologies
• Theoretical bases of elearning and learning environments
• Technologies and learning environments - physical and virtual spaces
• Impacting on students’ learning - cause and effect
• ‘In development’

Keynote speakers
We are delighted to announce that Dr Rhona Sharpe, Principal Lecturer in Educational Development, Oxford Brookes University and Professor Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media at the University of Brighton will both deliver keynote speeches at our conference.

Call for proposals
The deadline for receipt of abstracts (up to 300 words) is 5pm on Monday 2nd February 2009. Full details of the themes and call for proposals are available from the conference website:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/conference2009.

The conference is open to academic and academic related colleagues in the further and higher education sector, both national and international.

Registration and fees
To book your place please complete the online registration form available on the conference website (http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/conference2009).

You can also follow conference updates on Twitter @solstice2009 (http://twitter.com/Solstice2009).

This conference is part of a three-day series, preceded by the 2nd conference of the Widening Participation Research Centre
(http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/wpresearch/index.htm) on Tuesday the 2nd June and the 8th CLTR Conference
(http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/cltr/Events/Conference.htm) on Wednesday 3rd June 2009.

Call for Papers - ALT-C 2009: “In dreams begins responsibility” – choice, evidence , and change

ALT welcomes paper submissions for ALT-C 2009: “In dreams begins responsibility” – choice, evidence, and change. In preparation for when the submission system opens in late December 2008, please find details below of the research paper guidelines (including the research paper
template) and guidelines for other paper types e.g symposia, workshops, short papers etc.

First call for papers and abstracts for:

ALT-C 2009: “In dreams begins responsibility” – choice, evidence, and change 8-10 September 2009, Manchester, UK http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2009/

Keynote speakers:
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, USA.
Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University, Canada.

Submission guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts are available from:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html
- a Research Paper Template is also available from this webpage and is a word document so it can be downloaded and used to submit your research paper proposal.

ALT welcome submissions of two broad types:
- Full 5000 word Research Papers, for publication in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of ALT-C 2009, with a 350 word abstract (taken from the
paper) and a 200 word presentation overview both of which will appear in the conference Abstracts Handbook, and online.
- 350 word abstracts describing 30 minute Demonstrations, Posters, 20 minute Short Papers, 90 minute Symposia, and 90 minute Workshops. All abstracts will appear in the conference Abstracts Handbook, and online.

Key dates:
Proposals accepted from late December 2008 (the link to the submission system will be available from http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2009/) Deadline for receipt of proposals: midnight UK time on 16 February 2009 Bookings open during May 2009 Presenters' registration deadline 29 June 2009 Earlybird registration deadline is 6 July 2009 Bookings close on 14 August 2009