27 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
Google is removing extended search from its Blogger.com blogs. A blog’s search box used to return additional results from the sidebar blogroll and Web pages your blog had linked to. No more…
However, such capability might make a useful plug-in for WordPress. I couldn’t immediately find such a plugin in a quick search. Possibly it might hook into DuckDuckGo to provide the functionality?
27 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
A new blog article on Visualizing Citation Cartels, using the data from an existing case…
“what is uniformly odd about these papers is that they cite their dataset as if each datapoint (paper) required a reference.”
24 Saturday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society (1982-87)
Alkan Society Bulletins (musicology, Valentin Alkan)
Reflections (Yale Divinity School)
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Entry pages for the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
22 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
Collaborative Librarianship has a quick survey article “Directory of Open Access Journals: A Bibliometric Study”, looking at the coverage of library and information science journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)…
“It is interesting that no Russian language or languages used in the eastern regions of the former Soviet countries are represented in DOAJ.”
I did a quick DOAJ check. Subject Category: ‘Bibliography. Library science. Information resources’, then filtered by country of publication. The paper’s claim seems to be correct…
Switching to ‘Journal Language: Russian’ has the same result. Perhaps it’s just that there are no Russia-based library journals publishing in open access?
20 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
The Museum of Modern Art | MoMA now has a full online catalogue of its exhibitions, from 1929 onwards.
17 Saturday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
ASMOSIA Newsletter Archive (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones In Antiquity)
Over 1,000 introductory articles at Muslim Heritage : discover the golden age of Muslim civilisation. Google search: site:http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/
15 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in My general observations
I’m fairly good as an online picture researcher, but lately… ugh. Open Web picture research on certain historical topics is rapidly becoming nearly impossible, because search results get saturated by the websites of swivel-eyed loons and vast commercial robo-stores. I’d suggest we need some kind of Web browser filter to rid search results of “conspiracy theory crazies” and “commercial stores”, at least. Even a filter that just flags ‘known Photoshop fakes’ would be great, perhaps via some kind of pattern recognition.
13 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
I’m adding a posting here, with main tables-of-contents, so that the article titles can be indexed on JURN and the journal can be linked from the JURN Directory…
Lovecraft Studies journal, now with the 1980s issues on Archive.org:
H.P. Lovecraft: Consummate Prose Stylist.
On the Natures of Nug and Yeb.
The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part I), by S.T. Joshi.
Notes on the Prose Realism of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part II), by S.T. Joshi.
The Revision Mythos.
The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part III), by S.T. Joshi.
Dagon in Puritan Massachusetts.
Instructions in Case of Decease, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft’s Concept of “Background”.
Who Needs the “Cthulhu Mythos”?
In Search of Arkham Country.
Correspondence between R.H. Barlow and Wilson Shepherd of Oakman, Alabama—Sept.–Nov. 1932, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft and Chiasmus, Chiasmus and Lovecraft.
Behind the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930.
Mythos Names and How to Say Them, by Robert M. Price.
On the Emergence of “Cthulhu”.
Randolph Carter: An Anti-Hero’s Quest (Part 1).
Two Biblical Curiosities in Lovecraft.
Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram.
A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library (Part 1), by S.T. Joshi.
Did Lovecraft Revise “The Forbidden Room”?
Randolph Carter: An Anti-Hero’s Quest (Part 2).
A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library (Part 2), by S.T. Joshi.
The Hands of H.P. Lovecraft.
Facts in the Case of “The Disinterment”.
Notes on Lovecraft’s “The Bells”: A Carillon.
Lovecraft and James Joyce.
Lists and Notes by H.P. Lovecraft: Basic Books for a Weird Library, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Robert E. Howard and the Cthulhu Mythos.
Swan Songs: Lovecraft and Yeats.
“Retrograde Anticipation”: Primitivism and Occultism in the French Response to Lovecraft 1953–1957.
The Subversion of Sense in “The Colour out of Space”.
H.P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Movie.
A Plea for Lovecraft, by W. Paul Cook.
Lovecraft and Romanticism.
The Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston: Lovecraft’s Last Dilettante.
“The Green Meadow” and “The Willows”: Lovecraft, Blackwood, and a Peculiar Coincidence.
Who Was the Real Charles Dexter Ward?
Biographical Writing on H.P. Lovecraft: A Review of the Literature.
The Influence of Two Dunsany Plays.
The “Cthulhu Mythos”: Between Horror and Science Fiction.
In Search of Arkham Country Revisited, by Will Murray.
Infratextual Structures in Poe, Bierce, and Lovecraft.
Lovecraft’s Ethical Philosophy, by S.T. Joshi.
The Extinction of Mankind in the Prose Poem “Memory”.
On Lovecraft’s “Nemesis”.
Also note that Archive.org has some issues of the Crypt of Cthulhu fanzine from the 1980s, which mixed new fiction with scholarly articles on H.P. Lovecraft and his circle:
Lovecraft’s Weird Families. (#22)
Prehuman Language in Lovecraft. (#33)
“The Hound” – a dead dog? (#38)
The Sources for “From Beyond” by S.T. Joshi. (#38)
Exploring “The Temple”. (#38)
HPL’s Style. (#38)
“The Blind Idiot God: Milton Echoes in the Cthulhu Mythos”. (#49)
“The Pool” – Recommendations for Revision, by H.P. Lovecraft. (#49)
Aporia and Paradox in “The Outsider”. (#49)
Lovecraft as a character in Lovecraftian fiction. (#52)
On “The Book”. (#53)
On “Azathoth”. (#53)
On “The Descendant”. (#53)
“The Thing in the Moonlight,” A Hoax Revealed. (#53)
Did Lovecraft Have Syphilis? (#53)
Who the Hell was Winfield Scott Phillips? (#53)
Iranon and Kuranes: An lntertextual Gloss. (#53)
08 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Shangri La Working Papers in Islamic Art
The Babylonian and Oriental Record (Vols. 1-5) with Vols. 6-8 on Hathi, ‘possibly, maybe’ if you can use a VPN to bypass region-blocking.
02 Friday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Monumental Brass Society Bulletin
Exeter Register (Exeter College Association, Oxford. Annual with substantial obituaries and historical articles.)
31 Wednesday Aug 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
British Brick Society newsletter (archaeology and history of bricks, brick making). Not all PDFs appear to be viable, some terminating abruptly in mid-download.
Southern African Humanities (appears to be mostly archaeology, reconstruction of prehistoric ethnographies, linguistics)
27 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in Open Access publishing, Spotted in the news
The Trello service has long been very useful for anyone organising the production of a small magazine with a few collaborators. Or a journal publication or even a book. The free non-business account on offer is perfectly capable for magazine production purposes. Now Trello has announced free Dropbox integration, even on the free non-business accounts…
25 Thursday Aug 2016
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
Here’s a handy little web-whittle. It lets you save large versions of images from fleeting eBay sales listings, in which images are usually blocked by a javascript lightbox. You don’t need an add-on to save them to your PC.
In Firefox, just go: View | Page Style | No Style. This strips all formatting off the page.
Then scroll down to the bottom of what is now a much longer page than before, and near the bottom you’ll see the 1600px size pictures. You can the right-click on the picture and save.
Blocked:
Unblocked:
25 Thursday Aug 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
The new free Mythlore Index covers issues 1-128 of the long-lived Mythlore journal, which hosts work on Tolkien and his circle. Also indexes the Tolkien Journal issues 1–18, though not the field-leading scholarship of the Tolkien Studies journal. Mythlore Index also includes a subject index, and is a whopping 420-page PDF.
20 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
19 Friday Aug 2016
18 Thursday Aug 2016
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
Problem: You’ve been sent a .pages format document. No, I’d never heard of it either. Apparently it’s a sort of obscure equivalent of the old Windows .wps format, only it’s from word-processing software that ships with Macs. Like the old .wps format, nothing on earth will open it as intended — except its own native production software.
Solution 1: (defunct) It seems there used to be a Windows trick where you’d rename the .pages file as a .zip and there would be a preview.pdf inside that was usable. That trick doesn’t appear to work any more, at least with the newer versions of whatever Mac software makes .pages files.
Solution 2: (working)
1. Get the free LibreOffice, a version of the popular Open Office suite. The developers of LibreOffice are not afraid to incur the wrath of Apple by enabling .pages import. Install.
2. Open a new blank document in the Writer component of Libre Office.
3. Go: top menu bar | Insert | Document and insert your .pages file. Your document loads and appears, but looks like blank pages with a few lines of dots at the top of each page. The formatting has all been lost, but the dots are actually all the words scrunched up together.
4. Go: top menu bar | Edit | Select All | Copy.
5. Open MS Word or similar. Paste in what you just copied to the clipboard. As you’ll see, you’ve lost any fancy formatting there may have been in the .pages file, but at least you’ve got all the plain text and it’s in the right order, it flows and is editable.
16 Tuesday Aug 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
New from MIT, Ludwig Search is a hybrid between a grammar-checker and a search-engine. It compares your sentence with similar sentences found on major news sites and in PubMed.
15 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
