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Monthly Archives: July 2016

Added to JURN

31 Sunday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN

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Mushroom Research (1992 onwards, Mushroom Society of India)

Prabuddha Bharata (long-running monthly Indian humanities journal, appears to have become open in 2016)

Added to JURN

21 Thursday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in Ecology additions

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Natural Resources Journal (1961-2016, University of New Mexico. Interdisciplinary, with a focus on collaboration in solving resource-related problems)

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20 Wednesday Jul 2016

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History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, and Three, which are free and public…

“…the University of Chicago Press is pleased to present the first three volumes of the History of Cartography in PDF format”

map1472Picture: Map of the known world, 1482.

GoogleMonkeyR script fix: July 2016

14 Thursday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in JURN tips and tricks

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Good news, for those who use GoogleMonkeyR to present their Google Search results in a widescreen + columns format. It’s been swiftly fixed.

duckduck

Changes at Google broke the script a couple of days ago, when Google’s layout changed the div.col value to “0”. The script continued to work fine with DuckDuckGo and sort-of worked with Google News.

‘Topogiz’ has now kindly posted a working hotfix on GreasyForum, the Greasemonkey forum. It requires a simple manual edit of the script. I’ve edited this and expanded his instructions here, so that it’s friendlier for the average user…


1. In the top menu of Firefox, go: Tools | Add-ons | User-scripts. Then select: GoogleMonkeyR | Options.

2. An Options window will then pop up. At the foot of this window is the option to “Edit This User Script”.

3. Assuming that you have the current version of GoogleMonkeyR, go to Line 681. Or find…

if(this.numColumns>1)

4. Just below Line 681 there is a line which starts with…

style += ("#cnt.singleton

code1

Find this, then just below it insert a new blank line, and into that new line add…

style += ("div.col {width: 100% !important;}");

It should now look like this…

code2

5. Up at the top of the panel, click on “Save”, and exit.

The fixed script will also continue to work fine with DuckDuckGo and Google News.

MUSE Open

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in Spotted in the news

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MUSE Open is a planned “Open Access (OA) platform for monographs in the humanities and social sciences”, and has just been awarded, a “two-year $938,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop”.

Good news. But now I hope to hear that the other “42,000 books and 650 journals” locked away on MUSE will also be opened up, to the people who paid for their production.

Added to JURN

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

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Kadmos

Identity Studies in the Caucasus and the Black Sea Region

e-manuscripta

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in Spotted in the news

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e-manuscripta is a unified portal for finding manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives. Not just bare records either, but PDFs of scans for public download. It includes over 1,000 maps and plans.

swisscastle

Google Oooh!-lar

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in Ooops!

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“Google Scholar is Filled with Junk”… and now, what-claims-to-be porn, even. The aptly-named iPensatori investigates.

google-scholar-02

I’d noticed this problem starting to creep in as long ago as 2014, by another route, even before Scholar began to be being targeted by SEO spivs. When searches for ‘Lovecraft’ (seeking new scholarship on the 20th century’s greatest horror/sci-fi writer) on Google Scholar started bringing up ebooks of explicit sex-stories listed on Google Books, as well as other more dubious sources. Here’s my screenshot of a Google Books entry in Google Scholar, from 2014…

lovescholar

Many more occurrences since then, too.

My quick tickle of ‘naked’ ‘celebrities’ in JURN suggests there’s no such content to be found via JURN.

Added to JURN

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

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Nordia Geographical Publications (The Geographical Society of Northern Finland)

Early Childhood Matters series and reports of the Bernard van Leer Foundation.

toolkit

D-PLACE

09 Saturday Jul 2016

Posted by David Haden in Spotted in the news

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D-PLACE, which stands for ‘Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment’. Just launched, with records for 1,400 societies. My test search for ‘Dance’ in ‘Northern Europe’ gave three results, for Icelanders, the Irish and the Sami.

dplace

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