JURN is now one year old

JURN is now one year old. It’s had around 1,200 hours put into building the main search-engine, and the several related search services. It’s been a long project, but a unique one and one that’s certainly been worth doing. JURN is now mature enough to call “finished”, and as such would welcome more links from university websites. From now on it’ll basically be in maintenance mode. Enjoy.

If anyone wants to employ me to find, sort and describe online resources, I’m available.

Meanwhile, I’m now off to make an animated film for a while…

Optimising scholarly papers for Google Scholar

Oh dear, now arriving in academia — the dubious ‘art’ of optimising texts to temporarily rank highly in search-engines. Testament to the power of Google, I suppose. Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar & Co. (PDF link).

“Ah paper, I remember paper…”

An interesting report from official UK government researchers YouGov, The Costs of Traditional Filing (PDF link). Small and medium businesses in the UK together…

“waste an estimated £42 million each day locating paper documents. … [staff in an average firm] spend approx. 3 months a year looking for documents [...] 87% of respondents spend up to 2 hours every day looking for documents”

Add to that the time untrained staff waste looking for things online, and there’s some serious business wastage going on. And I’d suspect that matters are the same in much of the public sector.

The Hindu : Literary Review

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

The Hindu’s Literary Review section (I’m able to index 2002-2009. Also indexing the book reviews, which are on another URL path)

ejournals added to JURN today

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Cyberarqueologo Portugues

FayKag : Revista Canaria de Arqueologia

Histaria

IOUDAIOS Review

Living Past

Revue d’Archeologie Generale

Vegueta : Revista de la Facultad de Geografia e Historia. Miscelanea de Historia, Geografia e Historia del Arte

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter

Jargonia (Finnish ethnology, history and related fields)

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Added to the JURN directory:

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1851-2002)

Ooops…

From the librarian blogs…

“Even though we are well into the new year, you’ve noticed that you can’t access 2010 issues of Wiley ejournals. You’re frustrated. We, in eResources, are frustrated.”

It’s a widespread problem, apparently.

Horror Studies

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Horror Studies (Only the first issue is free)

   (Hat-tip: Film Studies for Free)

Five new titles added

Added to the JURN site-index today:

Amirani (the peoples, cultures and languages of the Caucasus)

Cahier des themes transversaux ArScAn

Dacia Magazin

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Current Research in Jazz

Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management

Fallopian

A new free film-making journal called Fallopian, on amateur micro-budget film-makers working with machinima and anymation (a subject on which I’ve recently written a costed purchase briefing for schools). Contributions to the first two issues come from academics in Manchester, Leicester, and Germany. Sadly it’s not indexable by Google, since they’re using Flash (made even more annoying for me, because for some reason pages don’t page-flip for me if I’m in full-screen mode). Still, I’ve been able to add it to the JURN directory.

New titles

Added to JURN today:—

Mirablia : Electronic Journal of Antiquity and Middle Ages (Was already indexed by JURN – but I’ve now also added it to the Directory)

Ius Antiquum (In Italian and Russian, journal on Roman law and its reception)

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Arqueologia Iberoamericana

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Arqueologia Iberoamericana (has some articles in English)

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Papers and conference proceedings of the Music Research Group at WAAPA

   (Hat-tip: Film Studies for Free)

Fake China

I suppose a further question is, does it extend beyond the sciences…?

“The latest in a string of high-profile academic fraud cases in China [...] Several sources revealed to Nature that roughly one-third of more than 6000 scientists surveyed across six top institutions admitted to plagiarism, falsification, or fabrication.”

It seems it’s probably just as well that no independent open-access ejournals are allowed in mainland China, since otherwise they would have been easily available to researchers in the West.

Incite! : journal of experimental media and radical aesthetics

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Incite! : journal of experimental media and radical aesthetics

   (Hat-tip: Film Studies for Free)

Focus Media Journal

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Focus Media Journal (University of California, Santa Barbara. The Department of Film and Media Studies’ Annual Undergraduate Publication)

Two Stanford journals added

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Occasion : interdisciplinary studies in the humanities

Mantis : a journal of poetry, criticism, and translation

German Films Quarterly

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

German Films Quarterly (with whole-issue PDFs here, from 2007-2008).

Eight new ejournals added

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Minos : revista de filologia Egea (ancient languages of the Aegean region) (Has some articles in English).

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Italique (Italian poetry of the Renaissance from Petrarch to the Baroque) (Has some articles in English)

Carte Italiane (Journal of Italian Studies, edited by the graduate students of the Department of Italian at UCLA) (Has some articles in English)

Journal for Learning through the Arts

Kheshbn (Yiddish literary journal)

California Italian Studies

Journal of California Anthropology

Paroles gelees (French and Francophone Studies. Some articles in English)

On the Edge

Robert Shapiro at the Edge 2010 Question…

“One survey found that 12% of the Internet addresses cited in three prestigious medical and scientific journals were extinct two years after publication.”

Folksemantic

Nice — a new search-tool for open courseware called Folksemantic. It seems an awkward name, and the closed presentation of results is also rather awkward (no direct URLs, framing of linked pages). But it’s a useful discovery tool, and will certainly go in the JURN guide.

There’s also no option to “never show me any of the 15,767,677,465 U.S. High School lesson-plans”, although there is a “show only courses” filter. Which then seems to leave you entirely with results from OU OpenLearn and MIT’s OCW, at present. But Folksemantic has funding from the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, so it seems set to add new features in future.

Two titles added

Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Research in Archaeological Education Journal

International Preservation News

   ( Hat-tip: AWOL blog )