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Three more titles added

28 August 2009 in New titles added to JURN | Leave a comment

Three more titles added to the site-index:—

ARSC Journal (history of sound recording) (1967-1994).

Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs, and Paintings (Annual publication 2005-2008).

Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archeologie Orientale (Assyrian Archaeology) (Open access before 2003, has many articles in English).

A check list of periodicals for classical studies

28 August 2009 in Spotted in the news | Leave a comment

AWOL blog has just posted two Word documents containing A check list of periodicals for classical studies and related disciplines, compiled by Yang Wang of Princeton University Library, in 2008.

AWOL also has news of a free E-Journals and Digitized Paper Periodicals (Egyptology) list, also from 2008.

Some recent inbound links

28 August 2009 in JURN blogged | Leave a comment

Researching Korean Culture adds JURN to the sidebar. Classics blog Arxaiognosia has added a JURN sidebar search-box. Medieval Studies blog Ficta Eloquentia recommends JURN. The Fondren Library at Rice University adds JURN to its online resources list for anthropology. JURN linked by Ohio Universities InfoTree. Fanshawe College lists JURN in their student guide to online resources — although claims that JURN only indexes 13 magazines(!). I guess someone read the launch blurb about “1300 journals” but decided it was far too many and must be a typing error

JURN Directory checked and repaired

28 August 2009 in New titles added to JURN | Leave a comment

All the JURN Directory links have been checked for viability, and re-found and repaired if needed. I’ve adjusted the JURN site-index links for all re-found journal websites.

Deleted titles (cannot be found):—

Culna : magazine of the National Museum, Bloemfontein

Systatis

Ex Nihilo

Kurdica: Online Magazine of Kurdish Language and Studies

European Internal Arts Journal

Artefact (Hungarian interactive arts journal)

Transformations : Liberal Arts in the Digital Age

Gaines Junction

Limen : Journal for … Liminal Phenomena

Potomac : A Journal of Poetry & Politics

Five new titles added to JURN

28 August 2009 in New titles added to JURN | Leave a comment

Five new titles added to the site-index:—

Journal of Music Research Online.

Platform : Journal of Media and Communication.

British Archaeology (magazine of the Council for British Archaeology).

Archaeology : a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America (indexing features, reviews, and interviews only).

KULT-online : the Interdisciplinary Review Journal for the Study of Culture.

Tweaked JURN

28 August 2009 in My general observations | Leave a comment

I made some small tweaks to the colours, the font size and the typeface on JURN’s front page. If you’re not a designer you probably won’t notice the difference, but it should be a little easier on the eye now.

Press here

19 August 2009 in Spotted in the news | Leave a comment

A proposal for a preservation plan for small-press literary journals.

The Wiki Police

17 August 2009 in My general observations, Spotted in the news | Leave a comment

I used to hang around Wikipedia quite a lot, and have probably contributed around 200 original articles, and contributed to another 600 or so. No more. Why? Because I choose not to have a recognised single nickname — and thus seemed to attract the intolerance of the increasingly arbitrary Wiki Police. The Scholarly Kitchen covers a debate happening now, and reports one of the reasons for a marked plateau in submissions…

“The apparent intolerance for green-horn editors and furtive fixers has some concerned their exclusionary approach will have a chilling effect on prospective new editors, choking off new blood when it’s needed most.”