17 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
Southeast Asian Studies (1963-2010)
Traduccion Iberica y Americana / Iberian & American Translation
Forum (journal of the Latin American Studies Association)
17 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology (1968-1975)
Andrews University Seminary Studies (1973-2006, Biblical Studies)
[ Hat-tip: AWOL ]
16 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
Art Praxis journal (community arts and arts in education)
[ Hat-tip: La Criee ]
15 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted in Academic search, JURN metrics, My general observations
A little group test, based on the single keyword Galerius. Chosen simply because a search for his name recently turned up in JURN’s usage statistics. This group test looked for relevant free full-text journal articles or book chapters in English, within the first three pages of results, and found:—
JURN’s number of relevant results would have been higher if I had included four results from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Several were also omitted because they only seemed to have the briefest mention of Galerius. In total, JURN provided 329 results for keyword Galerius — although not all in English. If only 50 or so of those were highly relevant (and a slightly more targeted search for Galerius Romuliana gives 37 that are very relevant to his main palace), rather than just incidental mentions of the name, then that would be quite a good haul for a newbie searcher just trying to use a single keyword. A couple of the best articles in English were pushed down to the last page of results, in amongst the non-English material, as they were on the French server Persee — presumably the Google algorithm thus classed them as “non-English” despite the use of English in the article (it’s apparently not currently possible to turn off the location detector). So there’s an interesting tip for JURN users — always skip to the furtherest search result page and check what’s there. It won’t be the sort of junk and spam you’d see in a normal set of Google Search results.
The main Google Search test (see above graph and table) involved actually downloading the PDFs to see if they really were articles or chapters, or just timelines/course documents/student essays. Both of the OAIster full-text results were in repositories. The single Archive.org result was a numismatic (coins) publication. All the HathiTrust results were from before 1910. Google Book Search results included several from pre-1910, including three for Gibbon’s Decline and Fall.
Those lucky few with access to Project Muse would have found 29 records in the results for this keyword, and JSTOR subscribers would have had a bumper crop of 55 quality full-text English results in the first three pages.
15 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
Oral History Forum (1976-2011. Online journal of the Canadian Oral History Association)
McGill Journal of Middle East Studies (2005-2008. Journal of the McGill undergraduate Middle East Studies Students’ Association)
[ Hat-tips: AMIR / La Criee ]
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
12 ejournals newly added to the JURN index today:—
Literature Matters (British Council) (2005-2007)
Adalya : The Annual of the Suna & Inan KIRAC Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations (Turkish/English)
Analecta Romana (Italian, some English articles)
Archaeologia Polona (Polish Archaeology. Free before 2002. English TOCs, articles sampled were in English)
Archeologia e Calcolatori (Italian, some English articles such as the special 2007 supplement on virtual museums)
Archaeologia Lituana (Occasional articles in English)
Arma : Newsletter of the Roman Military Equipment Conference
CAARI News (Cypriot Archaeology)
Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin
Enim (Egyptology)
Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia (Free registration required)
[ Hat-tip: Sisyphos ]
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
Asian Art : the on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia (Indexing articles only)
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in Academic search, Spotted in the news
A interesting new discovery, courtesy of AWOL. Sisyphos is an excellent full-text search-engine that indexes online resources in Egyptology / Ancient Near Eastern Studies / Classical Archaeology. The index encompasses a great many personal and institutional websites, online ebooks, and over 100 ejournals (current and scanned from the archives).
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
HIb : Revista de Historia Iberoamericana (Latin American History. Five articles in English in the most recent issue)
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The free PDF articles at Revues-plurielles.org, the portal for intercultural journals in French.
13 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
International Association for Coptic Studies Newsletter (1977-2009)
Storico Messinese (1975-2006, with gaps. The publication of the National History Society of Messina, an Italian journal of scholarly articles on “political and economic to cultural, religious, artistic” topics relating to the city of Messina in Sicily, Italy)
[ Hat-tip for Coptic Studies Newsletter, AWOL ]
11 Friday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Three ejournals newly added to the JURN index:—
TD : The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
10 Thursday Mar 2011
A neat new service, Full-text RSS Feed Builder…
“Love the ease of RSS, but hate when feeds don’t display the whole article, forcing you to click through just to read it?
Regain control by entering the URL of a feed below and clicking the submit button to receive a full-text feed URL you can use anywhere.”
Ah, now if only open arts and humanities ejournals actually had any RSS feeds… but unfortunately most don’t.
10 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in Economics of Open Access, Spotted in the news
The Persee journals open archiving service, for French humanities / social sciences / geography journals, has reportedly been abruptly told that its funding is to be withdrawn by its hosting university Lyon 2, within months and without any consultation…
“Sans concertation préalable (personnels et direction de PERSÉE non sollicités, comité de suivi de PERSÉE, ministère de tutelle, organes institutionnels de l’Université (CTP, CS, CA) non avertis), la direction de Lyon 2 a décidé le 7 février 2011 de mettre fin à la convention-cadre soutenant l’existence du programme. Cette décision prend effet le 10 mai 2011.
L’ensemble des personnels du programme PERSÉE ne comprend pas la précipitation de la direction de Lyon 2. Aucune information n’a précédé cette décision. Aucune discussion n’est proposée par la direction de l’université. Aucune solution ne garantit la continuité des activités du programme et la préservation de l’équipe PERSÉE en raison du trop court calendrier imposé par Lyon 2.
Nous ne savons pas ce qu’il adviendra de PERSÉE au-delà du 10 mai 2011.”
The service hosts around 350,000 open journal articles.
09 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to JURN today:—
New Cultural Frontiers. (Coming out of sociology, but the first issue has the article “Constructing Japanese Nationalism on Television”)
Animals (many articles on ethical issues relating to animals)
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All Brazilian journals from the Universidade de Brasilia — including Revista Archai (Journal of Studies on the Origins of Western Thought); Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade; Musica em Contexto; Revista Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporanea; Textos de Historia.
08 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
New sections added to the JURN Directory:—
* History: crime and law
* Cross/inter-disciplinary : polar regions
08 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Four new titles added to JURN:—
Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social (Has an English version)
Fonseca : journal of communication (Has English versions of articles)
Tyragetia (new series) (Has some articles in English)
Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica (Has some articles in English)
[ Hat-tip for the latter two: AWOL ]
06 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
Tropis (nautical archaeology and ancient nautical history)
06 Sunday Mar 2011
Google’s official ‘Personal Blocklist’ add-on for the Google Chrome web browser has now reached version 1.4 (released 28th February 2011). The new version adds a huge leap forward in search-results blocking, import/export of blocklists…
New features in version 1.4:
— import a list of patterns [URLs]
— plain-text pattern list for export
This is really excellent. For those needing a ready-made list to import, the free Waster List has over 2,000 URLs (domains to block, or ‘patterns’ as Google calls them). To install them, just open up Personal Blocklist in Chrome and copy-and-paste thus…
1. Find the little Google Blocklist icon in the top-right corner. This gives you access to the control panel. Click on Import. These are added to your existing block list.
2. Simply paste the entire Waster List into the panel, and click Import.
You’re done!
06 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
05 Saturday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
I’ve made a new JURN spin-off custom-search tool. Project Finder helps you find projects to fund, from across 14 crowd-funding websites. Sites that deal only in charities, or only in pop/rock bands, are not included.
Sites searched:—
Angel Shares (launching in March 2011)
