Following on from the last blog post, I’ve done some coding to see how well (or not!) a course level new journal article feed might work.
The process behind the code is…
- for a given course, identify the most frequently accessed journal titles
- use JournalTOCs to fetch the latest articles from each journal’s RSS feed
- for each course, create a list of articles (sorted in descending date)
…and you can see the initial output from the code here: http://www.daveyp.com/files/stuff/journals/
For some courses (e.g. Educational Administration) it looks like usage is focused on a single journal, but most seem to bring in content from multiple titles — for example, BSc Criminology is bringing in content from:
- The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (0265-5527)
- Nature (0028-0836)
- Terrorism and Political Violence (0954-6553)
- Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health (0957-9664)
- Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (1544-4759)
- Crime Prevention and Community Safety (1460-3780)
- Criminology (0011-1384)
- Crime & Delinquency (0011-1287)
- The British Journal of Criminology (0007-0955)
- The Police Journal (0032-258X)
One of the opportunities here is to use the journal usage data to identify potentially relavant journals that aren’t being used on a course and include those in the feed. In the above example, the Journal of criminal justice might be such a journal.