Welsh Journals Online

An exemplary effort from the National Library of Wales, to get all their small and local journals freely available online at Welsh Journals Online. Added to the JURN Directory, and also to the JURN Search…

Flintshire Historical Society Journal (1977-2003)

Flintshire Historical Society Journal (1911-1976)

Gwent Local History (1976-2006)

Gower (1948-2005) (local history of this remote Welsh peninsula)

Journal of the Pembrokeshire Hist. Society (1985-2005)

Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society (1910-1984)

Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History (1984-1992)

Journal of Welsh Religious History (1993-2004)

Y Llyfr yng Nghymru / Welsh Book Studies (1998-2006)

Morgannwg (1957-2004) (Glamorgan local history and archaeology)

Montgomeryshire Collections (1944-2002)

National Library of Wales journal (1939-2006)

Nature in Wales (1955-1987) (included for its book reviews of literary nature writing)

Pembrokeshire Historian (1959-1981)

Radnorshire Society Transactions (1931-2004)

Reports … Cardiff Naturalists’ Society (1900-1981) (later issues also have regular articles on local history and archaeology)

Transactions … Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society (1911-1938)

Wales (1937-1959) (literary journal with reviews)

Welsh History Review (1960-2001)

Welsh Music History (1996-2004)

The future of ebooks

Publishers Weekly has a perceptive new article on the future of ebooks, A Soft Landing on Normandy…

“Almost every single startup that is delivering authoring tools — either for designing and producing content, maintaining a full-bore content management system, or simply supporting an interim level of annotations or fragmentation — is building their own proprietary web-based layer that is largely HTML5-based yet also capable of linking to software development kits and libraries needed to support the export of rich app experiences. In other words, everything is baroque, and nothing in the standards space works well enough across the range of possible uses to be a default rendering environment. It is very much as if we are back in the Middle Ages scribbling on parchment, whittling our own quills from feathers we have on hand, drawing up whatever ink we have available. Our 21st Century parchment is a world-wide digital canvas, but our quills are hand-crafted.”

That can potentially make sense for presenting high quality specialist non-fiction/textbooks with complex layouts, which I’d suggest is where these startups may be going with these tools. If they can create a system easy enough for small and mid-sized publishers to use, but which can produce faithful / easy-to-update / app-friendly expensive non-fiction in iPad editions, then they stand a chance of a buyout by a major publisher — who might then polish and sell the system to smaller publishers, along with a rights lock-in.

New titles added

Ilha do Desterro (journal of English literature and occasionally of linguistics, mostly in English)

Odisea (journal of English studies, about half the articles in English)

Shakespeare Institute Review (first issue due summer 2012 — and hopefully also scans of the Mason Croft Review which it replaces?).

Stanislavski Studies

Recently added

Some of the English-language titles added this week to the JURN index and Directory…

Current Narratives

Roughcuts (magazine of Scottish cinema)

Emergence

Journalism Education

Pilgrimages: The Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies

Harvard magazine (just indexing the Humanities articles)

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

fiar | forum for inter-american research

Savart Journal (stringed musical instruments)

Virginia Review of Asian Studies

Speculations (speculative realism and post-continental philosophy)

AnthropoChildren

New Male Studies

Secularism and Nonreligion

JURN Search checked and updated

JURN Search has been fully checked for the continuing presence of indexed articles on the Google Search results, via the use of adapted software meant for checking SEO backlinks. The last such in-depth ‘linkrot’ check and repair was undertaken in January 2012. Both the Directory and the search-engine are now as sparkly clean as they can be.

Two new JISC reports

A new JISC report released this month, “Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector“, claims that the UK public sector saves £28.6 million through using open access content, although they still spend £135m a year accessing paywalled information.

The voluntary and charitable sectors were also surveyed, in another JISC report called “Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research for Voluntary and Charitable Sector Organisations“.

UNZ historical research competition – $14,000 of prizes

The excellent UNZ archive is running a historical research competition. First Prize is a whopping $10,000, and there’s also $4,000 of other cash prizes. So what do you have to do? Just write…

“the most significant and interesting discussion or analysis of some historical issue based on the published source material provided at UNZ.org. All entries must be received by 31st August 2012, and awards will be made by 30th September 2012.”

The focus is on historical topics such as…

“political history, literary history, personal history, intellectual history, ideological history, publishing history, science history”

There’s a huge amount of open journal material at UNZ, sensible divided into per-article PDFs and all hanging off a simple and straightforward URL structure. They’re especially strong on conservative and libertarian intellectual and literary journals, and also have a compact range of 1940s and 50s American pulps.

There is a bit of a stumbling block, in that competitors are subject to the notoriously fickle caprices of the Wikipolice — your article has to be accepted at Wikipedia (so strictly no “original research” allowed, a problem that might seem to void the aim of the competition) and stay there for 14 days without deletion.

(Incidentally: the contents of the UNZ can’t be added to JURN. I tried. But it seems Google won’t allow any UNZ articles to appear in CSE results.)

17,900 new images from the Walters Art Museum

The Waters Art Museum has added 17,900 new images to the Wikimedia Commons. Google’s indexed them all, and so they can now be searched via Google Images thus…

site:http://commons.wikimedia.org/ “Walters Art Museum”

Filtering by 2 megapixel size shows that the Walters Art Museum now has 14,400 decently-sized images accessible via Google Images, and they’re without watermarks. The test download image I tried was found to be at 300dpi. The licence is Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike — somewhat questionable, since the works that are in the public domain might more usefully be CC Attribution.

Vimeo Creative Commons Search page

A new Creative Commons search page on Vimeo, the hipsters’ video hosting service.

Getty Research Portal for art history texts

The Getty Research Institute has announced the Getty Research Portal…

“a free online search gateway that aggregates descriptive metadata of digitized art history texts, with links to fully digitized copies that are free to download.”

Launch date is the 31st of May 2012.

JURN results now re-sortable by date

I’m pleased to say that the JURN search results are now re-sortable by date…

WikiPaintings

WikiPaintings is a new online encyclopedia of painting. It’s pretty well stocked, as well as having a nice clean interface. It mixes public domain works with copyright works, and sadly there’s no way to filter to get “just the public domain works, above 1800px in size” in search results.

Although you can go in via Google Images, with the following search:

site:http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/ “artwork is in the public domain”

This gets about 90,000 results. You can then refine by size in pixels.

JURN Directory updated

JURN Directory checked for link-rot, and updated. Please update any local copies you may be keeping.

List of full-text creative industries / creative economy / arts papers on IDEAS, May 2012

Full-text -linked articles and papers listed on RePEc IDEAS (the clearing house and index for economics papers), as of 3rd May 2012, those covering: the creative industries; the creative economy; and the economy of the arts and of artists. Listed here so that the titles can at least be indexed by JURN…

A Composite Index of the Creative Economy
A Model for Pricing the Italian Contemporary Art Paintings at Auction
A Portrait of the Artists as Young or Old Innovators
A Review of the Arts of Supply Response Analysis
A Study of the Choreographer / Composer Collaboration
Accounting for Taste: An Examination of Socioeconomic Gradients
Acoustic Projection and the Politics of Sound
An Economic History of American Art Museums
Analyzing Artistic Innovation: The Greatest Breakthroughs of the
Anchoring Effects: Evidence from Art Auctions
Art Auctions
Art Collections as a Strategy Tool: a Typology based on the Belgian
Art economics: a new approach
Art Fakes — What Fakes? An Economic View
Art in Context: Aesthetics, Environment and Function in the Arts of
Art Museums in the United States: A Financial Portrait
Art, Culture, and New York City
Artistic Autonomy in Soviet Cinematography
Auction Prices of Classical Music Manuscripts
Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts
Batik Industry Of Indonesia: The Rise, Fall And Prospects
Beggar-thy-neighbor in Art Consumption
Benchmarking and understanding London’s Cultural and Creative
Berlin als Standort der Kreativwirtschaft immer bedeutender
Better off Dead? Prices Realised for Australian Paintings Sold at
Beyond the Dogma of the Fixed Book Price Agreement
Bookshop, blockbusters and readers’ tastes: a new appraisal of the
Bringing History into Evolutionary Economic Geography for a Better
Buying Beauty: On Prices and Returns in the Art Market
Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To
Community as a locus of innovation: co-innovation with users in the
Connecticut: A State of the Arts?
Constructing regional advantage: Platform policies based on related
Contingent Valuation Studies in the Arts and Culture: An Annotated
Corporate Donations to the Arts: Philanthropy or Advertising?
Creative and knowledge economies and their linkages with other
Creative clusters in Europe: a microdata approach
Creative Clusters in Low Density Areas: A Case-Study Approach
Creative Economy: Determinants And Stakes Of Creativity And
Creative Industries, New Business Formation and Regional
Creative Industry Clusters and the ‘Entrepreneurial City’ of Shanghai
Creative-based strategies in small and medium-sized cities: some
Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore
Creativity in the Age of the Internet
Creativity, Culture And Tourism Triangle; An Evaluation Of Two
Credit default swaps and an application to the art market: a proposal
Cross-listing in the U.S. and domestic investor protection
Cultural districts, property rights, and sustainable economic growth
Cultural Policies in Europe.From a State to a City-Centered
Culture, Conflict and Community: Rituals of Protest or Flairs of
Dealers in Art
Decreasing Copyright Enforcement Costs: The Scope of a Gradual
Demand Distribution Dynamics in Creative Industries: the Market for
Demographischer Wandel Und Kulturelle Infrastruktur
Determining Heterogeneous Behaviour for Theater Participation
Die Performance deutscher Kinofilme und zeitgenoessischer
Do creative industries cluster? Mapping Creative Local Production
Do U.S. Paintings Follow the CAPM? Findings Disaggregated by
Dynamic cities and creative clusters
Dynamic Model of Arts Labor Supply
Econometric analysis of volatile art markets
Economic Contribution Of Copyright-Based Industries And Impact
Economic Development, Enlightenment and Creative transformation
Economic revitalization through the arts: the creative economy
Empreendedorismo nas Artes ou Artes do Empreendedorismo?
Entrepreneurial Finance and the Flat-World Hypothesis: Evidence
Entrepreneurship in a modern network economy
Estimation of hedonistic price function for Claude Monet’s pictures
Expanse Creative Economy and its Impact on the Less Developed
Explaining The Breadth Of Expert Estimate Ranges In Auctions Of
Exploring The Conceptual Underpinnings Of The Creative Industries
Ex-Post: The Investment Performance of Collectible Stamps
Failure to Meet the Reserve Price: The Impact on Returns to Art
Forecasting accuracy of behavioural models for participation in the arts
From creativity to innovativeness: micro evidence from Italy
From Talent to Creative City: Towards a conceptual framework
From the Dual Apprenticeship System to a Dual Labor Market? The
From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of
Global-local linkages, Spillovers and Cultural Clusters: Theoretical
Governance and Creativity on Urban Regeneration Processes
Government Policy Toward Art Museums in the United States
How can we deal with the contemporary places and spaces of new
How the Arts Impact Communities: An introduction to the literature
Incomplete Information and Experimentation in the Arts
Increasing Returns to Information in the U.S. Popular Music Industry
Information externality in the arts and the public intervention
Innovative Retail and the UK Growth Agenda
Regional Development — human capital, the creative class and tolerance
Investments in Painting: The interaction of monetary return and
Kreative in Berlin: eine Untersuchung zum Thema
London: a Cultural Audit
Major influences on circus attendance
Making world heritage truly global: the culture certificate scheme
Mark Blaug and the Economics of the Arts
Marketing and technology sophistication as hidden weapons for
Methodological approaches for measuring the creative employment
Methodological framework for cluster analyses
Mobilising rural communities to achieve environmental sustainability
Moral Rights Protection for the Visual Arts
Multiple job holding: the artist’s labor supply approach
Music Piracy and Its Effects on Demand, Supply, and Welfare
Music Scenes to Music Clusters – the economic geography of music
Network governance work: evidence from the video game industry
Networks of knowledge and support. Mapping relations between
Nonprofit Organizations and the Intersectoral Division of Labor in the
Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales
Public Attitudes Towards Cultural Authority and Cultural Diversity in
Quality Investment and Price Formation in the Performing Arts Sector
Re-Creating New Orleans: Driving Development Through Creativity
Regional Development in the Creative Age
Reputation, Price, and Death: An Empirical Analysis of Art Price
Research and Development in Culture: A Case for Cross Subsidies
Resources for Studying Public Participation in the Arts: Inventory
Rethinking the Spatial Organization of Creative Industries
Sale Rates and Price Movements in Art Auctions
Sample Selection Bias and Time Instability of Hedonic Art Price
Spatial Concentration of Creative Industries in Los Angeles
Stealing History: How does Provenance Affect the Price of Antiquities?
Studies of Artists: An Annotated Directory
Tax Policy Toward Art Museums
Testing for Reference Dependence: An Application to the Art Market
That’s Entertainment – scale and scope economies in the location
The 1980s Price Bubble on (Post) Impressionism
The Contribution of Cultural Infrastructure and Events to regional
The Creative Class and Regional Growth: Towards a Knowledge
The Creative Economy and the dynamics of regional systems
The Creative Economy in Iowa
The Creative Industrial Park: formation path and evolution mechanism
The Cultural and Creative Industries: A Critical History
The Cultural Economy of Paris
The Demand for the Arts
The Demand for Theatre. A Microeconomic Approach to the Italian
The Dynamics of Interfirm Networks along the Industry Life Cycle
The Economics of Latin American Art: Creativity Patterns and Rates
The Economics of Museums
The effects of gallery and artist reputation on prices in the primary
The Effects of Workforce Creativity on Earnings in U.S. Counties
The Emergence of Rural Artistic Havens: A First Look
The empirical test of the Aesthetic Matrix of Art Economics: the Magic Flute
The Fine Arts Market: The Methodological Limitations of Art
The Formation and Regeneration of Old Industrial Zones in Nanjing
The Iconic Boom in Modern Russian Art
The Impact Of Cultural-Creative Industries On The Economic Growth
The Importance of Creative Industry Agglomerations in Explaining
The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis
The International Mobility of Talent and its Impact on Global
The Internet Marketing Solution Toward Creative Industries in
The Labor Market in the Seventeenth-Century Italian Art Sector
The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion
The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective
The Management of Events in the Veneto Performing Music Cluster
The Media Gatekeeping Model Updated
The Missing Middle: Communities of Practice in a Freelance Labour
The Political Economy of Cultural Spending: Evidence from Italian
The Price of Degenerate Art
The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel
The Role of Creative Industries in Industrial Innovation
The role of creative industries in regional development of East Asian
The Sales Effect of Word of Mouth: A Model for Creative Goods and
The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit
The Value of Autonomy: Evidence from the Self-Employed in 23
The Web’s Promotional Effect and Artists’ Strategies
Tribal Art Market: Signs and Signals
Understanding Production in the Performing Arts: A Production
Unfamiliar Objects in Familiar Spaces: The Public Response to Art
Urban Development & Creative Communities As A Prerequisite For
War, Inflation, Monetary Reforms and the Art Market: The Belgian Art
What determines the World Heritage List? An econometric analysis
Why do creative industries cluster? An analysis of the determinants
World Heritage List: does it make sense?
World Heritage: Where are we? An empirical analysis

RePEc IDEAS, economic history papers added

Added to JURN – all the article records tagged as belonging to the Economic History category, at the RePEc IDEAS service. The majority (90%?) of these have links to full-text, but not all.

Data Journalism Handbook – available now

The new Data Journalism Handbook has just been launched, as a free ebook. It could also be of use as a primer for academic researchers.

OONI tracks your ISP’s censorship level, shares results

Tor developers Arturo Filasto and Jacob Appelbaum have released OONI-probe, an…

“open-source software tool designed to be installed on any PC and run to collect data about local meddling with the computer’s network connections, whether it be website blocking, surveillance or selective bandwidth slowdowns [forced by the service provider]. OONI will allow anyone to run the testing application and share their results publicly.”

Just in case you wanted to tell the world how much your ISP is trying to censor you…