Great blog post, BTW. A very good reminder to get stuff out there with the lowest friction possible, and not to lie awake at night worrying about lost opportunities (or fame).

Filtered superfeeds is an interesting idea. As is something I’m currently considering – Personalised journal current awareness visualisation with animated timeline of emerging research interests.

In many cases, for many of our users, a link to the ticTOCs site is less useful than a link directly to the home page of the journal, esp. if the RSS provided by the publisher is rather sparse. But I’d also like to inline ToC content in some cases. Or ferret out whatever I can about the user and proxy links (or don’t) through an appropriate proxy server. Or mash up filtered “superfeeds” for specific audiences (perhaps even an audience of one).

But frankly — and I mean no disrespect, I really don’t — I’m not sure why the onus should be on me (and others) to make the case for opening the data. Can you articulate the case for keeping it closed?

If you are going to insert links from, say, an A-Z list of your journal subscriptions, which would be better – a) link to the journal RSS feed b) link which would display the latest TOC for each journal in at the ticTOCs website?