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IRN blogs JURN

27 Friday Feb 2009

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The March 09 Internet Resources Newsletter blogs and links to JURN. JURN is even highlighted as one of two outstanding new websites…

“There seems to be a number of good websites listed in this month’s Internet Resources Newsletter, making any choice for the ‘Nice Web Site’ difficult, however, I’ve chosen two search engines…”

Maritime Compass blogs JURN

26 Thursday Feb 2009

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Maritime Compass blogs about JURN…

“Focusing on the arts and humanities, many articles on preservation and history are included. It’s a great search engine, returning highly relevant results. I searched very broad terms, such as ‘sea’ and retrieved fascinating articles, both popular and scholarly. Specific searches, such as vessel names, also retrieved wonderful hits.”

Blogged by TGE-Adonis

23 Monday Feb 2009

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JURN has been blogged by the French organisation TGE-Adonis, part of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

JURN blogged by PLAI

17 Tuesday Feb 2009

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JURN blogged by PLAI in the Philippines.

JURN now picked up by Google search

06 Friday Feb 2009

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As of four hours ago, JURN is now showing up on the main Google search results.

URL fragments

06 Friday Feb 2009

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Someone enquired if I was aware that Google Custom Search “Sites” control panel needs to have a distinctive fragment of an URL entered if it’s to seek accurately for a match. This is to do with checking if an URL is already in the site index. Google Custom Search will happily add a duplicate if you let it, especially if you just check against a full URL. Yes, I’m fully aware of this feature, and that it’s case-sensitive — and so only search for a distinctive fragment of an URL, before adding it to the site index.

I am also cutting back the URL slightly if needed, to give Google a slightly wider “spread” in what it picks up from that URL. Ideally, I’m seeking out just the URL that holds the articles (which is often very different from the main journal URL).

JURN and diacritics/Chinese/Japanese

05 Thursday Feb 2009

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I’m trying to fix a problem with JURN returning code1 into the search box after a search, when it should show character.

code1 being the “raw” HTML codes for those Chinese characters.

Tweaking the supplied code snippet from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1 seems to cure it. But then that results in nothing being returned to the search box at all, even for English queries. Which is obviously a non-starter, since I’m not going to cripple JURN in English.

It seems the bug results from a combination of Google’s remote “show_afs_search.js” javascript file (which I can’t change), and my showing the results on the same page as the search box (i.e.: the “iframe hosting option”). The language encoding for the search terms is getting stripped out, somewhere in the loop back to the search-box.

Other people’s Custom Search Engines seem to handle the problem, but only by displaying the results on a new second page. I may have to look into having a second interface for non-English users, showing the results on a second page, when JURN makes the move to its own domain. Or you can just use the “raw” Google page for JURN.

Unless someone can offer a solution? But I’ve searched the support forums with no result. It seems it may well be a genuine bug with the “iframe hosting option”. The same bug also causes JURN to refuse non-English accents (i.e.: diacritics) on search terms. So “pate” will work and will find “pate” and “pâté”, — but “pâté” on its own won’t be accepted as a valid search term.

JURN domain registered

05 Thursday Feb 2009

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I just purchased/registered a suitable domain name for JURN, as I don’t want (potentially rather heavy) traffic bogging down my personal blog space. Hopefully it’ll be live by Friday or maybe Monday. I’ll put an auto re-direct on the old page.

JURN on OAN

05 Thursday Feb 2009

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JURN gets a quick mention on Open Access News.

Why name it JURN?

04 Wednesday Feb 2009

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I wanted something memorable, with just a few letters, and that was available as a domain-name on the .org top-level domain.

JOUR sounded too French.

JURN is a common German / Scandanavian boys’ name, no-one else was using it for anything remotely like a search-engine or even a trademark, and I had some new artwork to hand featuring a boy to be the “brand mascot”.

I pictured “Jurn” as some student stuck in the wilds of somewhere like Finland, without paid access to many commercial ejournals. He’d be trying to plough through Google Scholar in English, and getting tangled up in results that constantly demanded payment. JURN is the search engine for that student, and for millions like him around the world who have limited or no access to full-text journal databases.

So… that’s why the new search-engine was named JURN. But as an acronym, what might it stand for? Well, you can pick your own meaning, in the style of the old sci-fi zines — Journal Usury Recovery Net? Jolly Urbane Reading Node?

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