25 Tuesday Jun 2019
Mindshare UK’s The Future of Search (full report, free in public PDF) for those who use smartphones in the UK…
we tracked people’s search behaviour using ethnography, face-to-face workshops and neuroscience experiments surveying 1,800 UK smartphone users.
22 Saturday Jun 2019
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
CompWood (computational methods in wood mechanics) (indirectly relevant to archaeology, architecture, heritage reconstruction)
Journal of Open Humanities Data
15 Saturday Jun 2019
Posted in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN
Histories of Postwar Architecture
PRISM : The Journal of Complex Operations (Institute for National Strategic Studies at the U.S. National Defense University)
Prompt : The Journal of Academic Writing Assignments
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Fixed indexing of U.S. Defense Technical Information Center full-text, which has recently moved from www. to apps.dtic.mil
14 Friday Jun 2019
Posted in Spotted in the news
Want to know what’s in the LibGen catalogue? There’s now a Desktop software version of the catalogue…
have your own offline copy of the LG catalog!
11 Tuesday Jun 2019
Posted in Ooops!
Ooops. Harvard’s Astrophysics Data System server, a huge public repository of astronomy and space flight papers and books, blocked because… it has ‘ads’ in the URL? Does ad-blocking get more block-headed than this? Thankfully, I see it’s now possible to tell uBlock to ignore the rule, which didn’t used to be possible.
08 Saturday Jun 2019
Posted in Spotted in the news
02 Sunday Jun 2019
Posted in New titles added to JURN
TSEG : Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
Sherbornia (bibliographic research in zoology, and possible nomenclatural ramifications)
Improved coverage of Slovak journals.
29 Wednesday May 2019
A new free Andreessen Horowitz report, “Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019”. It’s from an investor perspective, but is very long and has lots of interesting firm-ish numbers and agency segmentations of use to a wider audience interested in free public content.
It doesn’t once mention YouTube though, so it may be overlooking a lot of under-the-radar effectively-a-podcast episodic shows that can be listened to as audio-only, and others that don’t go through the usual podcast delivery channels. No mention either of the leading podcast search-engine listennotes.com which should surely have been in such a report.
Also, many of the services it mentions I’ve never heard of. Who knew that “Apple Podcasts” is apparently the incumbent? I’ve never heard of it before… but then I’m not part of the Apple ecosystem.
28 Tuesday May 2019
Posted in My general observations
The Google CSE team is obviously updating with some tweaked code, on the front-end of the Custom Search Engines (CSEs).
As a result, JURN’s custom “click to search button” has become a small generic-looking one done in .SVG code. This is smaller and tighter than I’d like, and has replaced JURN’s nice custom .JPG button.
This “click to search” button still works fine, so it’s only an aesthetic change…
I’ll leave it a few days before jiggling the CSS to try to get the custom button back, just in case Google decides to revert the changes.
26 Sunday May 2019
Posted in My general observations
GRAFT has updated with a new batch of repository URLs added. Search across full-text and records alike, in 4,723 repositories.
