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Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Annales Islamologiques (has some English articles)
Art & Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter
Backdirt (annual magazine of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)
( Hat-tip: AWOL blog )
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Watermark (California State University)
Journal for Millennial Studies
Segue (JURN is just indexing the Writing on Writing articles)
Anamesa : an interdisciplinary journal (New York University)
Google’s Custom Search blog summarises design-oriented changes to the Google Custom Search service. Along with themes for formatting search results, one of the most interesting is auto-reformatting when Google detects you’re on a mobile device.
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Radical Designist : a design culture journal, The
Songklanakarin : E-Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities (a Thai ejournal)
Altitude : an e-journal of emerging humanities work
Clothesline : the online journal of costume and dress
Newsletter of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Journal of Art History & Museum And Gallery Studies (Just indexing the TOC page, since the articles are stored numerically in a repository — so to index them would be to include the entire repository)
Montage (University of Iowa Art History Society)
Added a single-URL solution to index just the 95,000 free PDF articles from Cairn (a French site containing 203 ejournals in the humanities and social sciences, 2001-present).
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
AERAGRAM : official newsletter of Ancient Egypt Research Associates
American Numismatic Society Magazine
ANKH : Journal of Egyptology and African Civilisations
al-Bardiyyat : newsletter of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology
as-Sikka : The Online Journal of The Islamic Coins Group
( Hat-tip, for the above: AWOL blog )
Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies
History of Reading news (1976-2008) and Book Reviews
The University of Wales links to JURN. Only the second British university to link so far, after The University of London.
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (IJCAIP) (Despite mention of archives being ‘accessible to subscribers’, the PDFs seem to be full issues)
DeepDyve has announced their interesting pay-per-view so-called “rental” model of access to academic papers in… “scientific, technical and medical research”. I’ll be curious to see if it works financially. Looking at the range of journals indexed shows there are small scattering of arts and humanities titles, such as Critical Studies in Media Communication and Feminist Media Studies, although in both cases only articles from 2008 are available.
Annoying, and misleadingly, most DeepDyve articles are flagged as…
…when all you can actually access is a short abstract, rather than the full-text article.
Five more additions to the JURN site-index today:—
Foundations of International Thinking on Sea Power
Forest History Today (forests in history)
Mediterranea : Historical Research (Mostly in Italian, but some English articles such as this one)
JRTR : Japanese Railway History series
Historical Review, The (Modern Greek history) (Thanks to AWOL blog for pointing out this one)
It’s always good to hear of a new art history ejournal. The University of Glasgow has announced the open access Journal of Art Historiography, with the first issue due at the end of December 2009…
“This journal exists to support and promote the study of the history of art historical writing [...] encourage the full range of enquiry that encompassed the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics now falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches”
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Syrian Studies Association Newsletter
Canadian Political Science Review (Just indexing the TOC for the special issue on ‘Communications, the Media and Policy in Canada’)
International Journal on Human Sciences (Has some articles on history, art and literature, such as “Children Characters in Rumi’s Masnavi” and “The daybooks of chief justices as a historical sources of the Ottoman empire and their significance”, “The pomegranate motif in Turkish fabrics”, etc)
MIA Review (Maori studies – including occasional articles on mythology, culture and history)
The New York Times has just launched an intuitive tool for construction of custom RSS feeds, allowing normal users to test keywords, select from a related set of terms, and then to preview the resulting mixed feed before committing to it. If only all large sites offered such a custom feed…
You start with a bare-bones structure, but with that all-important Google-like search box.
A few searches later, you’re mixing and matching your terms, and previewing the results in the right-hand pane.
48 hours after I talked on the JURN blog about the rarity of workshops in advanced search, up pops news of a three-day commercial workshop in Brighton, UK. The university is to open up one of their M.Sc. Information Studies modules to the wider public…
Innovations in Online Information, 16th – 18th November 2009, University of Brighton. £420. “This 3 day course introduces students to some of the latest developments in online information services and technologies including: Advanced Web Searching; Mashing up RSS; Paid vs. Free Content; Searching for Media; Future of Search.”
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
PhaenEx : journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture
Humanities Research Group Working Papers
Moderna sprak (“the journal of English, French, German and Spanish languages, literatures and cultures”)
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Journal of Screenwriting (First issue is free)
Intute reports on some new UK research on mobile internet use among students. Tangentially, the report confirms what I’ve commented on here several times…
“… it was clear from across the focus groups and depth interviews that students [ second year undergraduate students from a range of disciplines and universities ] received low quality training on using the Internet for academic research, with most guidance limited to using on-line university library resources and a broad introduction on how to use search engines.”
I suppose the question is… why? In the face of an unprecedented and growing level of open access to knowledge, why do so many of the Web generation (*) manage to reach the second year of a degree course without anyone actually teaching them to search properly and fully? Don’t blame information overload for the reason why people can’t find quality stuff. Blame search illiteracy.
It also seems odd that the world appears to be filled with Twitter and Facebook workshops, yet professional-level workshops in advanced search are as rare as a dodo. Personally, I try to give all my undergraduate classes a live one hour ‘Web Search Masterclass’ early in the semester. No-one ever complains “…but we did this with the librarian / sixth form / school”.
* the average second-year student would have been aged 5 or 6 when Netscape 2.0 appeared, alongside cheap £10-a-month net access and cheap modems. When they entered their secondary school Google was hitting one billion URLs indexed. When they left school at 16, their parents were swopping dial-up internet access for broadband.
Microsoft Research has just published a new free ebook, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Part Four, titled “Scholarly Communication” is the most interesting for non-scientists…
* Jim Gray’s fourth paradigm and the construction of the scientific record – Clifford Lynch
* Text in a data-centric world – Paul Ginsparg
* All aboard: toward a machine-friendly scholarly communication system – Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze
* The future of data policy – Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Kylie Pappalardo
* I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us – John Wilbanks
* From web 2.0 to the global database – Timo Hannay
More additions to the JURN site-index today:—
Meroitic Newsletter (1968-2003)
Articles by the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project as published in Sudan & Nubia journal
(Hat-tip: AWOL blog)
