Overview

This Google app provides a JSON interface to ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service, based on the data set provided here.

Usage as a web service

This service allows querying by ISSN. In addition, a Title may be provided to disambiguate in cases where multiple feeds are offered for the same ISSN.

Examples:

• Basic ISSN search:
  http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836

  {"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", 
   "records": [
      {"title": "Nature AOP", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/rss.rdf"}, 
      {"title": "Nature", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/current_issue\/rss"}
   ], 
   "issn": "00280836"}
  

• Use of title= attribute:
  http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature

  {"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", 
   "records": [
       {"title": "Nature", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/current_issue\/rss"}
   ], 
   "issn": "00280836"}
  

• Use of jsoncallback attribute:
  http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature&jsoncallback=process

  process({"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", 
           "records": [
             {"title": "Nature", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/current_issue\/rss"}
           ], 
           "issn": "00280836"})
  

• Example with unknown ISSN (no search results):
  http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-083X

  {"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", "records": [], "issn": "0028083X"}