26 Thursday Aug 2010
Posted in Academic search, Spotted in the news
Science of the Invisible and The Scholarly Kitchen both have useful coverage of the new paywalled article “Researchers’ e-journal use and information seeking behaviour” (2010).
26 Thursday Aug 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
23 Monday Aug 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to JURN today:—
Fruitless Recursion (reviews of scholarly books on science fiction, fantasy, horror)
North American New Right (has some substantial essays on literary and cultural figures, plus reviews)
Galacia 21 : Journal of contemporary Galacian Studies. (One of the most elegantly presented journals I’ve seen for a long time)
Konturen (Philosophy of borders and delimitations)
Archivo Espanol de Arte (Major Spanish journal on the history of art. Archives back to 2000)
Monastic Researchers Newsletter
Caravan, The (Major Indian magazine for the intelligentsia. In English.)
ArtMonitor (Cannot be indexed since it stores the articles at an academic repository with an undifferentiated URL structure, but it has been added to the JURN Directory)
Speculations: a journal of speculative realism (Philosophy)
Collapse (Indexing Volumes I and IV) (Philosophy)
Thinking Nature: a journal investigating the relation between Thought and Nature (First issue forthcoming).
23 Monday Aug 2010
Posted in JURN tips and tricks, JURN's Google watch
I’ve expanded my guide to how to build and install your own self-hosted linked Google CSE, and published it as a new book…
17 Tuesday Aug 2010
Posted in How to improve academic search
A four-part survey on current semantic enterprise startups.
10 Tuesday Aug 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
New open ejournals added to JURN’s article index today:—
Skepski (peer reviewed student journal of the School of European Culture and Languages, Uni of Kent)
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines
Platforum (graduate journal of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria)
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Collapse IV: Concept Horror (book-length special issue of a philosophy journal — only this issue is free)
06 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in JURN's Google watch
Google Books reveals the number of books catalogued by their service: 129,864,860, by their count. There’s some interesting information about how they de-duplicated and cleaned the data.
But how many have more than a fragmentary (and usually mis-placed) “snippet view”? At 2008, Google and its partners had scanned seven million books, and made one million available in “full preview”. Another one million were then also available in “full preview”, because they were public domain. Even assuming that we now have access to 3 million books that we can “preview” on Google Books, there’s still a long way to go to get the other 126,864,860 books online. Although it might be an easier task when we remove the non-English works and fiction from that total.
04 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted in Spotted in the news
A new book series in English from Brill of the Netherlands, Scholarly Communication : past, present and future of knowledge inscription.
