After 10 months of work, JURN is now just 235 URLs away from hitting the 5,000 URL limit that Google places on free Custom Search Engines. It’s possible the librarians may have to be thrown overboard in the New Year…
Five new titles added to the JURN site-index today:—
GDR Bulletin (“a journal on East German literature and culture published by the Washington University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures from 1975 to 1999″)
Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (Has articles on online advertising, online games, etc. Despite at first appearing to offer only TOCs, scroll right down the page to find an “author A-Z” giving access to full papers)
SIGKDD Explorations (Journal of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) (Rather technical, but it might to be of interest to specialist librarians, those in the digital humanities, and those in the mass-market creative industries)
Apologies that the interior pages of the JURN blog are not loading. WordPress loads my dashboard and and the front page, but for some reason the interior pages never load. The problem started about 14 hours ago. Presumably wordpress.com will eventually fix the problem, which seems to be because one of their subsidiary servers is not responding.
All my other wordpress.com hosted blogs have the same problem. Checking other random wordpress.com blogs across the web shows they also have the same problem.
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society (1931-1967)
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
Trismegistos Online Publications (TOP) (papyrological and epigraphical resources, Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800)
PIA : Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (Issues from 1990, 1993, 1994 are all free online)
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Proceedings of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (1991-2007)
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Skyllis : Journal for Underwater Archaeology (1998-2004)
Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin (1995-2008)
Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online (2003-2009) (Also has English articles)
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
Journal of The British Society for the History of Radiology (formerly the Journal of the Radiology History & Heritage Charitable Trust)
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Journal of Conflict Studies (1999-2003) (Formerly Conflict Quarterly, 1980-1994 – also indexed. Has many articles of interest to historians)
Demographic Research (1999-2009) (Has many articles of interest to historians)
ACLS Occasional Studies series
Latin American Studies newsletter, and Working Papers series (University of Maryland. Newsletter has book reviews)
MegaZine v3, an open-source page-flip engine for presenting sophisticated paper-like online magazines and books. Try the demo, which shows how multimedia elements can be easily incorporated into pages — there seems to be a lot of scope for “electronic artists’ books” here, made by those who can use Photoshop but not Flash or Director.
“MegaZine3 is completely written in ActionScript 3 [and you just edit an XML file] … MegaZine3 comes with integrated support for SWFAddress, a JavaScript library allowing a user to deep-link Flash movies.”
The only worry I’d have would be how well search-engines would index the text of articles. It’s somewhat worrying, for instance, that I can’t copy and paste text from the demo. Nor can I search within the text. I guess a publisher would want to put an additional small button on the foot of the web page, leading to a plain version of the text used.
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Colloquia (1983-2007. Literature and linguistics. Early issues are mostly in Japanese, later issues are mostly in English)
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Diagonal : Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music
CILLA Papers on Latin American Indigenous Languages
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics
SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation
SKASE Journal of Literary Studies
Latin American Research Review (Covers a variety of topics – the latest issue is a film studies / cultural studies special issue)
Cardinal Perspectives (interdisciplinary journal of Wheeling Jesuit University)
Canadian Catholic Historical Association Study Sessions (1966-1984)
Canadian Catholic Historical Association Historical Studies journal (1984-2006)
Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report (1933-1965)
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Fixed broken indexing-URL for the Marburg Journal of Religion ( was http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/ -is now- http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/ )
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Eastern Africa Journal of Humanities & Sciences
Africana Libraries Newsletter (JURN is just indexing the book reviews)
Australian Online Journal of Arts Education
Journal of Philosophy and History of Education (1995-2009)
Removed OAIster from the guide to free search tools. Manchester Met reports that…
“OAIster … has been taken over by OCLC and absorbed into their WorldCat database. … there is no way to restrict your search to OAIster content and it’s very difficult to pick out OAIster records from the search results … OCLC promise a discrete OAIster interface in January 2010, but until then, I’m afraid that it’s all a bit of a mess.”
Added to the JURN site-index today:
Retiarius (In Latin)
Forum Archeologiae (In German, but with good illustrations and photographs)
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (first issue apparently forthcoming in late 2009)
The UK’s RIN announce a new cluster of research initiatives on ejournals…
“A new portfolio of research projects will be focusing on transitions to electronic-only publication, gaps in access, the dynamics of improving access to research papers and the future of scholarly communication.”
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry (Google – and hence JURN – is only indexing the TOCs and not the full-text PDFs)
MELA Notes (1997-2007) (JURN was previously only indexing the issues from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s)
Ostracon : The Journal of the Egyptian Study Society, The (2000-2006)
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
MacQuarie Journal of Business Law (Has occasional historical articles, e.g.: “Debt Collection in Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land 1817 and Thereabouts”; and “Trade and State-Building in Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa”)
Penn African Studies Newsletter (Indexing just the most recent issues – 2008 and 2009 issues have started to run book reviews)
Italian Politics and Society : the review of the conference group on Italian Politics and Society (1977-2008. Formerly CONGRIPS Newsletter)
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Humanities Research (1997-2004) (Already indexed – but the link is to be added to the JURN Directory of ejournals).
61 x “free first chapters” from the books list of the Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Council for British Research in the Levant bulletin
Liber Annuus (1990-1999)
Lingua Aegyptia : Journal of Egyptian Language Studies (1991-1993)
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine
OAPEN is to publish…
“a study on user needs in relation to open access book publishing within the Humanities and Social Sciences. The study will be made available through OAPEN’s website, www.oapen.org, by the end of October [2009].”
No sign of it yet. Any day now, now doubt…
In the meanwhile, the main findings are:
* Print remains important in HSS although a trend has been established to more digital consumption (more screen reading and E-Book use), more informal online communication (blogs and wiki’s) and a small rise of scholarly writing specifically adapted to the digital environment. It is felt print and E-Books will coexist and will be used side-by-side for the time being.
* Accessibility and dissemination of scholarly content are key. It is felt Open Access promotes both and does not necessarily harm the quality of publications. Accessibility also opens research up further, enabling content enhancement and connections (links) between publications. A good and easy way to use search function remains indispensable.
* In the online environment filter and selection mechanisms such as peer review remain of the utmost importance to establish quality, as are (publishers) brands and (scholarly) reputations. It is felt Open Access monographs should pay extra attention to quality control to ensure their legitimacy.
* Experiments with new forms of collaboration and new (Open Access) business models in book publishing are necessary. The research shows users are still skeptical about the sustainability of these kinds of models but feel experiments are essential to save the monograph from the traditional (print) publishing model that is no longer sustainable.
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Folio : the Bulletin of the ABMC (Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center)
Hirundo : the McGill Journal of Classical Studies
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
De Musica (In Italian, has occasional articles in English)
Google is now supporting the filetype:epub search modifier, for finding ebooks in the popular epub format. Google has fairly limited coverage of such files so far, at a reported 54,000 hits. Searches for Iliad and Wonderland only show a few epub editions of each.
So that’s where the mainland Chinese journals are. The China National Knowledge Infrastructure: Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ) apparently contains ‘hard’ scanned images of pages… “from 1,856 print journals in the humanities. Access requires a password.” The main CNKI archive apparently totals 7,200 journals across all disciplines including science, when journals from 1915-1994 are counted in.
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
BARS Bulletin and Review (British Association for Romantic Studies)
Rangefinder magazine (Fine art and high-end commercial photography)
number:inc : an independent journal of the arts (Southern states of the U.S.)
Watcher Junior (Undergraduate Buffy scholarship, with an Editorial Board)
Acta Slavica Iaponica (Japanese, in English and Russian)
Slavic Eurasia Papers (Japanese, publishes some English papers)
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Mahler Archives, The (Archive of 60 papers on Mahler)
