Studia Graeco-Arabica / Material Culture Review / Retrospective Methods / Working Papers of the OACP

Four new titles added to the JURN index:—

Studia Graeco-Arabica

  [ Hat-tip: AMIR ]

Material Culture Review (1976-2010)

Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter (Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki)

Working Papers of the Open Anthropology Cooperative Press

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Fixed link for back issues of Folklore Forum.

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Between the Species / Ethics and Animals / Moebius / Forum

Four new titles added to the JURN directory:—

Between the Species : an online journal for the study of philosophy and animals

Ethics and Animals

Moebius : annual journal of CalPoly College of Liberal Arts

Forum : CalPoly’s Journal of History, The

Microsoft Academic Search is expanding rapidly

InfoDocket blog spots that Microsoft Asia appears to be about to expand the Microsoft Academic Search (beta). Previously this has been limited to computer science / information technology…

“[on the new front-page navigation menu] next to physics, mathematics, engineering, and chemistry you’ll notice the number of days until the launch. First up will be physics”

Then before the end of April they plan to add Chemistry, Mathematics, Engineering. Humanities still seems to be some way off.

InfoDocket also claims that the MS Search database has expanded from 8m to 15.7m links this week.

World Picture

Added to the JURN index:—

World Picture

  [ Hat-tip: Film Studies for Free ]

White Review, The

Added to the JURN index:—

White Review, The

Trove

I just found the National Library of Australia’s Trove search service, offering a national search for Australian online academic content.

Although Trove appears to be effectively an amalgamated repository search when searching for full-text articles (outside of newspapers), it allows users to limit a search only to records of journal articles promising free full-text. That’s good to see, and something for other repository-searching services to copy.

A search for the word “and” within such limits found 54,000 records. However, it suffers from the same problem as Google Scholar in mixing too many books in among the articles. Near the top of the first page of these results was the book The City Reader (LeGates & Stout) which is clearly not a journal article — yet is tagged as such, presumably because it’s a collection of chapters written by different authors. The “full-text” flag on this item’s record was also erroneous, since the “Available online” link led to a paywall, and the only other source was a Google Books preview. The first page of results also appeared to contain numerous other commercial books, yet these were also tagged with the “articles” flag. Clearly these books are not a “Journal or magazine article” within the meaning of the sidebar’s refining selection option…

Trove needs to add an “Article: published in a book” filter. Without that, it’s difficult to know how many actual peer-reviewed full-text journal articles are really included in the Trove database.

JISC / University of Oxford Digital Impacts day

JISC and the University of Oxford are running a one-day meeting on 20th May 2011, Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content…

“The question of how we can measure and understand the usage and impact of digital content within the education sector is becoming increasingly important. Substantial investment goes into the creation of digital resources for research, teaching and learning and, in the current economic climate, both content creators, publishers as well as funding bodies are being asked to provide evidence of the value of the resources they’ve invested in. But how do we go about defining value and impact? Which metrics should we adopt to understand usage? When is a digital resource a well used resource?”