Ex Historia

28 Monday Feb 2011

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Added to the JURN index:—

Ex Historia (postgraduate History journal at the University of Exeter, UK)

CGW : Computer Graphics World

28 Monday Feb 2011

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Added to the JURN index:—

CGW : Computer Graphics World. Many of the excellent in-depth articles from recent issues are online in full-text, for free (e.g: on the CG and animation for Tron: Legacy).

Georgian Electronic Journal of Literature

25 Friday Feb 2011

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Added to the JURN index:—

Georgian Electronic Journal of Literature

[ Hat-tip: AWOL ]

Experimentally added Findarticles articles, via the URL…

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_*/is_*/ai_*/

Also with an excluding URL that removes everything except the first page of an article (i.e.: not indexing page 2, 3, 4, 5… of an article, nor the pages generated for each citation), so as to reduce clutter in the results. I’ve also excluded some ubiquitous newspapers such as Deseret News and wire services such as Business Wire.

This risks bringing in some press releases, in the newspapers and professional journals that are available on FindArticles. These find their way into the archive via verbatim republication by lazy journalists. Some fluffy journalistic op-ed articles will also be brought in. But for relatively targeted academic searches it seems to be worth it. The benefit it brings to JURN is in the form of articles drawn from a pool of over a million articles.

What about the paywall? Well, findarticles.com articles currently appear to be free, and I can’t find any article appearing in JURN’s results that asks for a payment. Of course, this may change and so I’ll be keeping an eye on: i) how findarticles.com distorts (or not) the search results, and ii) signs of any return to having half the articles behind a paywall. Please let me know if you start seeing paywalled findarticles.com articles showing up in JURN’s results.

Desmazieres / Schuiten

23 Wednesday Feb 2011

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Some of the ‘library pictures’ of the French artist Erik Desmazieres. A new edition of Desmazieres‘s three-volume catalogue raisonne will be published by the Fitch-Febvrel Gallery later in 2011. The last few copies of the original three-volume set are available at Warnock Fine Arts.

Borges’ The Library of Babel: The Salon of the Planets (1998)

Borges’ The Library of Babel: Upper Circular Gallery (1998)

La Librairie Paul Jammes (2000)

And a picture that appears to exemplify the influences on Desmazieres, Boullee’s Project for a Royal Library (1785)…

I’d also surmise that he may have been led to such work by having grown up reading French graphic novels such as Les Cites Obscures (1983, partly expanded as a ‘director’s cut’ in the mid 2000s, and partly published in English in 2004)…

AOPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) humanities ebooks

22 Tuesday Feb 2011

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Added to JURN today:—

The excellent AOPEN service (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is attempting to track and catalogue all European open access books in the arts and humanities. Currently very poorly indexed by the search-engines, so although I have the URL in the JURN index, searches for AOPEN titles are not yet appearing in results.

[ Hat-tip: AWOL ]

This is the list of all the humanities book titles AOPEN has catalogued so far, and each catalogue page has a link to the full-text PDF ebook…

“Eine Gesellschaft, die ihre Jugend verliert, ist verloren”: Das hochschulpolitische Konzept der SED am Beispiel der Technischen Hochschule/ Universität Karl-Marx-Stadt und die daraus resultierende Verantwortung der FDJ zwischen 1953 und 1989/90
“In carne e ossa”: il corpo nelle opere di Georg Büchner
A Family Occupation : Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s
A Key to Dutch History : The Cultural Canon of the Netherlands
Aesthetics and subjectivity
Allemaal beestjes. Mortaliteit en morbiditeit in Vlaanderen, 18de-20ste eeuw
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia : US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949
Amsterdam Human Capital
An intimate and contested relation
Animals in Ritual and Economy in a Roman Frontier Community : Excavations in Tiel-Passewaaij
Animaux domestiques dans la littérature narrative française au Moyen Âge
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
Art in Progress : A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde
Asian Material Culture
Between Positivism and T.S. Eliot : Imagism and T.E. Hulme
Beyond the witch trials: Witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe
Braving Troubled Waters : Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community
Burials, texts and rituals. Ethnoarchaeological investigations in North Bali, Indonesia
Conflitti, paci e vendette nell’Italia comunale
Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops : The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages
Criminally Queer : Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999
Crossing the Line : Violence, Play, and Drama in Naval Equator Traditions
Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba
Dal Caucaso al Mar d’Azov
Dare et habere
Das Buch der Bücher
Das Erbe der “Helden”
De beste de baas? : Verdienste, respect en solidariteit in een meritocratie
De Europese Unie, Turkije en de islam
De fiere nachtegaal : Het Nederlandse lied in de middeleeuwen
De geesteswetenschappelijke carrousel : Een nieuwe ronde in het debat over wetenschap, cultuur en politiek
De hand van Huizinga
De kunst van het weldenken : Lekenfilosofie en volkstalig rationalisme in de Nederlanden (1550-1600)
De letteren als wetenschappen
De perfecte verleiding : Muzikale scènes op het Amsterdams toneel in de 17e eeuw
Der Dritte Weg auf dem Prüfstand; Theologische, rechtliche und ethische Perspektiven des Ideals der Dienstgemeinschaft in der Diakonie
Descrivere il futuro
Destination Europe: The political and economic growth of a continent
Die Hungerunruhen in Hamburg im Juni 1919 – eine zweite Revolution?
Die königlichen Frauen der III. Dynastie von Ur
Die politische Religion. Eine Untersuchung über den Ursprung des Verfalls in der Geschichte (1935)
Digital Material : Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology
Distance og Involverethed : Et tema i eksistenstænkning og eksistensdigtning
Ebrei nella Terraferma veneta del Quattrocento
Een kolonie van Duitsers : Groepsvorming onder Duitse immigranten in Utrecht in de negentiende eeuw
Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870
Ein Compendium sumerisch-akkadischer Beschwörungen
Equal subjects, unequal rights: Indigenous people in British settler colonies, 1830-1910
Erfgoed : de geschiedenis van een begrip
Esercito, istituzioni, territorio. Alloggiamenti militari e “case herme” nello Stato di Milano (secoli XVI e XVII)
Ethiek van DNA tot 9/11
Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity : The Role of Power and Tradition
Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power : The Batavians in the Early Roman Empire
Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia : Reality and Challenges
European Cinema : Face to Face with Hollywood
Europe’s Invisible Migrants
Evart van Dieren : een kroniek van het falen
Fassbinder’s Germany : History, Identity, Subject
Fathers, pastors and kings: Visions of episcopacy in seventeenth-century France
Female imperialism and national identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
Film Front Weimar : Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933)
Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise : From Carmen to Ripley
From Behind the Curtain : A Study of a Girls’ Madrasa in India
From Early Tang Court Debates to China’s Peaceful Rise
From Indifference to Entrapment : The Netherlands and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1990-1995
Frühe Reisende in Phokis und Lokris
Gabriele Malaspina, marchese di Fosdinovo
George III : King and politicians 1760-1770
Geschrift eener bejaarde vrouw : Betje Wolff en Agatha Deken
Gevallen vazallen : De integratie van Oranje, Egmont en Horn in de Spaans-Habsburgse monarchie (1559-1567)
Gli anni Sessanta a Leningrado
Half the battle: Civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War
Handleiding voor de determinatie van harde dierlijke materialen : Bot, gewei, ivoor, hoorn, schildpad, balein en hoef
Het heilige huis : De gotieke vertelling in de Nederlandse literatuur
Het Hemels Mandaat : De Geschiedenis van het Chinese Keizerrijk
History of Concepts : Comparative Perspectives
Homo loquens en homo scribens : Over natuur en cultuur bij de taal
How Welfare States Care : Culture, Gender and Parenting in Europe
Il linguaggio del territorio fra principe e comunità
Il paesaggio storico delle Cinque Terre
Illacrimate sepolture
Im Steilhang
In Search of Meaning: Ludwig Wittgenstein on Ethics, Mysticism and Religion (Band 1)
Inside the Politics of Technology : Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society
Irish regiments in the Great War: Discipline and morale
Ironiens tænker, tænkningens ironi (Vol. 12):Kierkegaard læst retorisk
Jean de Saintré | Barnegidslet (Vol. 14):To franske ridderfortællinger
Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
Journalistieke cultuur in Nederland
La civiltà comunale italiana nella storiografia internazionale
La dottrina costituzionale di Sieyès
La filosofia dell’immaginazione in Vico e Malebranche
La trasformazione di un quadro politico
Le signorie dei Rossi di Parma tra XIV e XVI secolo
Le storie e la memoria
Liberalismo, democrazia, socialismo
Local Identities : Landscape and Community in the Late Prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt Region
Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 7)
Louis XIV and the Parlements: The assertion of royal authority
L’Università degli Studi di Firenze fra istituzioni e cultura nel decennale della scomparsa di Giovanni Spadolini
L’uomo inquieto (Vol. 58):Identità e alterità nell’opera di Antonio Tabucchi
Lustige geesten : Rederijkers in de Noordelijke Nederlanden (1480-1650)
Luther’s lives: Two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther
Making Technology Masculine : Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945
Male witches in early modern Europe
Mappae Mundi : Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective, Myths, Maps and Models
Medievistica del Novecento
Meesterschap in tweevoud : Novellen en schetsen van Rosalie en Virginie Loveling
Mind the Screen : Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser
Mittelalterliche Eliten und Kulturtransfer östlich der Elbe – interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Archäologie und Geschichte im mittelalterlichen Ostmitteleuropa.
Modernitet eller åndsdannelse? (Vol. 339): Engelsk i skole og samfund 1800-1935
Music of the Twentieth Century : A Study of Its Elements and Structure
Mystifying the Monarch : Studies on Discourse, Power, and History
Mystik- Metapher- Bild
Natur als Grenzerfahrung ; Europäische Perspektiven der Mensch-Natur-Beziehung in Mittelalter und Neuzeit: Ressourcennutzung, Entdeckungen, Naturkatastrophen.
New Perspectives on Games and Interaction
Nipisat – a Saqqaq culture site in Sisimiut, central West Greenland (Vol. 331)
Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
Om beters wille : Rederijkerskamers en de stedelijke cultuur in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1400-1650)
Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi : Ordinis secundi tomus quartus
Parliaments, nations and identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1860
Per la priorità di Antonio Meucci nell’invenzione del telefono
Percorsi recenti degli studi medievali
Politieke geschriften : Opstand en Religievrede
Positive or Preventive? : Reproduction in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1940
Postcolonial contraventions: Cultural readings of race, imperialism and transnationalism
Poteri signorili e feudali nelle campagne dell’Italia settentrionale fra Tre e Quattrocento: fondamenti di legittimità e forme di esercizio.
Recht und Religion in Europa – zeitgenössiche Konflikte und historische Perspektiven
Reframing Singapore : Memory – Identity – Trans-Regionalism
Renascent Empire? : The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, ca. 1640-1683
Republican learning: John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722
Responding to the West : Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency
Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets : Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics
Ricerche sull’organizzazione del territorio nella Liguria medievale
Rituelen van beraadslaging : Reflecties over burgerberaad en burgerbestuur
Rivolte urbane e rivolte contadine nell’Europa del Trecento
Romantic Modernism : Nostalgia in the World of Conservation
Schauplätze und Themen der Umweltgeschichte
Ship’s Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company : Commerce and the Progress of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World : New Itineraries into the Sacred
Soldiers and Civil Power : Supporting or Substituting Civil Authorities in Modern Peace Operations
South Asian Partition Fiction in English : From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh
Storia di un dottorato: storia medievale nell’Università di Firenze
Strategic Affection? : Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Studi confraternali: orientamenti, problemi, testimonianze
Sustainable Humanities : Report from the National Committee on the Future of the Humanities in the Netherlands
Synagogen in Göttingen ; Aufbrüche und Abbrüche jüdischen Lebens
Synod on the Freedom of Conscience : A Thorough Examination during the Gathering Held in the Year 1582 in the City of Freetown
Synode over gewetensvrijheid : Een nauwgezet onderzoek in de vergadering gehouden in het jaar 1582 te Vrijburgh
Technology, Trust, and Religion : Roles of Religions in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2000
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2001
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2002
The Art of Staying Neutral : The Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918
The Bastion of Liberty : Leiden University Today and Yesterday
The Company that Changed Itself : R&D and the Transformations of DSM
The Culture of tolerance in diverse societies: Reasonable toleration
The Drawing of the Mark of Cain : A Socio-historical Analysis of the Growth of Anti-Jewish Stereotypes
The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials : Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials
The Enlightenment and religion: The myths of modernity
The European Union, Turkey and Islam
The Expansion of Tolerance : Religion in Dutch Brazil (1624-1654)
The forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44
The Future of the Sciences and Humanities : Four Analytical Essays and a Critical Debate on the Future of Scholastic Endeavour
The Lancashire witches: Histories and stories
The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft: Theology and popular belief
The new aestheticism
The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
The Philosophy of the Imagination in Vico and Malebranche
The Place of Play : Toys and Digital Cultures
The political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The impossibility of reason
The Politics of War Trauma : The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries
The Poor in England 1700-1850: An economy of makeshifts
The Rise of Mental Health Nursing : A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920
The Sacred Heart of Jesus : The Visual Evolution of a Devotion
The Spoken Word : Oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850
The Stone Age of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt) (Vol. 336): A regional analysis of the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures of Central West Greenland
The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe : Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century
The Victorian soldier in Africa
The Visible World : Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Art Theory and the Legitimation of Painting in the Dutch Golden Age
Their Footprints Remain : Biomedical Beginnings Across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier
Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch
Tra sensi e spirito
Tradition und Zukunft – die Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen; eine Leistungsbilanz zum 65. Geburtstag von Elmar Mittler
Tranen van bloed : Het beleg van’s-Hertogenbosch en de oorlog in de Nederlanden, 1629
Tvivl og tolerance (Vol. 15): Et skrift om Pierre Bayle, en milepæl og et paradoks i oplysningens historie
Two Centuries of Solidarity : German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008
Umwege zum eigenen Kind; Ethische und rechtliche Herausforderungen an die Reproduktionsmedizin 30 Jahre nach Louise Brown
Umweltgeschichte und Umweltzukunft
Una comunità rurale toscana di antico regime
Uno stato d’animo
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy : (ca. 1600-1200 BC)
Verantwortungsbewusste Konfliktlösungen bei embryopathischem Befund
Vom Verstehen zur Verständigung ; Dokumentation der öffentlichen Vorlesungsreihe zum Europäischen Jahr des Interkulturellen Dialogs 2008.
Voor vorst en stad : Rederijkersliteratuur en vorstenfeest in Vlaanderen en Brabant (1432-1561)
‘We Need Two Worlds’: : Chinese Immigrant Associations in a Western Society
Witchcraft continued: Popular magic in modern Europe
Witchcraft narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652
Women and the Colonial State : Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942
Women’s Rights? : The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan
Yankees, cookies en dollars : De invloed van het Nederlands op de Noord-Amerikaanse talen
Zehn Jahre in Deutschland
Zingend door het leven : Het Nederlandse liedboek in de Gouden Eeuw

50 new titles added

22 Tuesday Feb 2011

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50 ejournals newly added to the JURN index:—

Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy

Theandros

Living Tradition

Avant

Inkanyiso : Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Journal of Near & Middle Eastern Studies

Liner Notes

Irish Theatre

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies

Styles of Communication

St. Andrews Studies in French History and Culture

Tavoos (Iranian visual arts and film)

Studies in Comparative Religion

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice

NOAG

University Museums and Collections Journal

Kontur

Book & Paper Group Annual

University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History

West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly

Anamnesis

Creative Spirit

Istanbul Literary Review

International Journal of Humanities (Iran).

Polari Journal

Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research

Inter-American Journal of Philosophy

Poblet (Monasticism)

Guandu Music Journal

PAST : Pioneer America Society Transactions

This Rough Magic

Everba (cultural activities and literature related to Latin America)

Actors’ Centre Online Journal

Journal of Texas Women Writers

CEA Forum

Working Papers in Romance Languages

Futhark : international journal of runic studies

Analyse & Kritik

Book: The Newsletter of the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, The

REA : Religion, Education and the Arts

Souls : a critical journal of black politics, culture and society

Minerva : An Internet Journal of Philosophy

Studies in Contemporary Islam

Houston Literary Review

Florida Philosophical Review

Asiatische Studien / Etudes Asiatiques

Lasu Journal of Humanities

Lagos Papers in English Studies

Asia Research Institute Working Papers

International Journal of South Asian Studies

JURN is two years old today

03 Thursday Feb 2011

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JURN is two years old today, and currently indexing 4,101 titles.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way… to open access

03 Thursday Feb 2011

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Another possibility for funding Open Access: the baby boomers leave a bequest in their will that is sufficient to give open access to the archives of their favourite academic journal.

Three new titles added

03 Thursday Feb 2011

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Three ejournals newly added to the JURN index:—

Inbhear : Journal of Irish Music and Dance

Journal of World Anthropology

Mosaikjournal (“physical and written legacy of ancient civilizations”. First issue has three articles in English)

[ Hat-tip for the latter: AWOL ]

Proceedings of the Dance Dialogues: Conversations Across Cultures, Artforms and Practices conference (Australia, 2008).

Hacking Hathi

03 Thursday Feb 2011

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A handy Hathi Trust website tutorial for UK and European readers. It details how to bypass the EU’s ridiculously elongated copyright terms, and access blocked material that is freely available to Americans.

Readability adds new content-payment model

02 Wednesday Feb 2011

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Readability lost the race for my Kindle, in favour of the superior bundling and magazine-like delivery abilities of Instapaper. But Readability does have an interesting new payment system…

The Readability pages may be very elegant, but unfortunately they don’t explain exactly how the system works until you press the ‘sign up’ button. Many people won’t make it that far. When you do click it, you find out that $5.00 is the minimum ‘pool’ amount that you can disburse to your content providers each month. But that can go higher. Maybe $50, if you’re doing a lot of reading for a profitable business. Then Readability tracks what you read, and sends a proportionate micro-share of your monthly fund to the content provider of each article you read on your device — while keeping 30% itself for transfer fees, admin, rights-tracking, servers, and software development. Readability might even be able to make some money selling aggregated anonymous reader data to publishers, although I haven’t dug into their privacy terms to find out. But, on the whole, such a system seems fair. If it takes off, and Instapaper also adopts it, then it could create a viable content payment ecosystem.

I’d love to see it add a slider on which you could decide how much you want to pay the content publisher, and how much should be paid directly to the author of the article. I think that’s something I’d even like to see ethical newspaper and magazine publishers flagging on the article itself — “for every dollar we get for this article in voluntary microfees, 35 cents is diverted directly to the author”. However, given the senile newspaper industry’s attitude to its creatives, and to ethics in general, that may be unlikely. More likely is that they sue companies such as Readability/Instapaper out of existence, once they start making money from ad-stripping. Then the newspapers will launch their own ‘meta payment’ service for the bundling and delivery of reader-selected ad-stripped content.

Google launches Google Art

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

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A new service from Google, Google Art Project…

“Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.”

Based on the Google Maps technology and its familiar interface, the images are gigapixel and presented without watermarks. Just 17 gigapixel images to start with, and there are also StreetView-like tours of their museums. If images look a little blurry as you zoom in, then simply give time for the tiles to load (in a similar way to Google Earth), and the sharper tiles should appear.

The “Add” button for the creation of personal collections doesn’t seem to work in Firefox.

Four new titles added

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

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Four titles newly added to the JURN index:—

Harmony : forum of the Symphony Orchestra Institute

Classical Journal (book reviews only)

Southwest Philosophical Studies : the journal of the New Mexico West Texas Philosophical Society

Illinois Classical Studies (now indexed at the article level)

Already indexed, but now added to the Directory: Helade (“biannual electronic journal on Ancient Studies”)

Three new titles

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

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Three titles newly added to the JURN index:—

Kieler Beitrage zur Filmmusikforschung (Kiel Contributions to Film Music Research. Seems to usually publish one or two English articles in each issue)

Guitar and Lute Issues

Music Therapy Today

Publications archive of journals published in French by ICRAM, including:

Resonance (1993-1999, IRCAM. French)

InHarmoniques (1986-1991, IRCAM. French)

Cahiers de l’Ircam : recherche musicale (1993-1996, IRCAM. French)