IEEE Oral Histories

Added 600 Oral Histories from the IEEE Global History Network of the IEEE History Center.

Re-Wired

The appalingly bad new re-design of the U.S. Web edition of Wired magazine has removed their online archive. JURN was previously able to index just the tables of contents for each archive issue. As this is no longer possible, I’ve switched to indexing just the feature articles of the U.K. edition of Wired, via the wildcard URL http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/20*/*/features/ Not an academic journal of course, but I think it’s important to leaven JURN a little in fast-moving areas such as contemporary fine art and new technologies, through judiciously adding quality in-depth accounts of/by actual practitioners.

Added to JURN

Temporarily added all Palgrave Macmillan journals to JURN, following their kind offer of free public access for the month of March. My access tests show free seamless public access to the articles, without having to sign up for a trial.

“The fact is…”

What if Google Search could demote websites containing a large number of incorrect facts?

Added to JURN

Tallinn Papers

Publications of the Center for Strategic and International Studies including books and the journals:—

New Perspectives on Foreign Policy

Washington Quarterly

Comparative Connections

Added to JURN

Forest Research Papers

Added to JURN

International Sea Power Symposium Proceedings

MOC Warfighter

Mandiant Intelligence Center Report

Journal of Military and Information Science

RAND Review

The Future of Library Resource Discovery

A new White Paper from the U.S. National Information Standards Organization (NISO), The Future of Library Resource Discovery.

Added to JURN

China Maritime Studies

Joint Force Quarterly

European Affairs

Strategic Studies Quarterly

International Journal of Cyber Criminology

Secrecy and Government Bulletin (1991-2000) and Secrecy News (2000-2015)

Added to JURN

USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems

Transactions on Data Privacy

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

In/Print

Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Leaven : a journal of Christian ministry

Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Pepperdine Policy Review

Pepperdine Law Review

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

Global Tides (peer-reviewed undergraduate journal at Pepperdine)

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PDFs at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

Not loving Notey

Notey is a new topic-focused blog finding directory. Yeah, I know… but it just reportedly raised $1.6 million in funding.

It has a slick iPad-focussed design, so on a widescreen desktop PC I hit some clunky navigation points a few times. Top of the ‘recent blog posts’ pile on entering was “40+ Insanely Clever Products Your Dog Deserves To Own”, which suggests the marketeers are already in Notey, via marketeering blog-a-zine articles.

The search box is hidden away, as if they’re ashamed of it. The search experience is not great. I searched for “Lovecraft” (H.P. Lovecraft, famous horror and SF author, on whose life I’m an expert) and the results were incredibly poor. A Google search for…

site:http://www.notey.com/blogs/ lovecraft

… reveals more of the semantic messiness, and the ways that the database is being skewed by the vast cloud of fanboy crapware that now surrounds the man and his fiction.

Sadly Notey doesn’t look like the new Technorati to me, and nor is it of much used to academics seeking a specialist single-topic blog. For discovery of single-topic blogs Google is still your friend, and the following Google Search modifier still works despite Google having abandoned a dedicated blog search box…

inblogtitle:keyword

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Cyber Defense Review

OneNote is free

Free version of Microsoft Office OneNote. It’s of interest to scholars working with older documents or Google Books pages, who need to quickly and accurately OCR snippets of online scans. It has industry leading OCR for small text in archival scanned documents (Insert | Screen Clipping | Recognize Text), a benefit of Microsoft’s massive investment in typography R&D in the 1990s and 2000s.

Added to JURN

John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

John Marshall Law Review

John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law

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Nature & Faune (United Nations on behalf of the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission)

Unasylva (The United Nations F.A.O.’s forestry journal)

Journal of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives and its successor Land Tenure Journal (The United Nations F.A.O.)

Added to JURN

KOME : an international journal of pure communication inquiry

Added to JURN

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages

Reference rot

“Reference rot in web-based scholarly communication”…

“[In a sample of] 3.5 million scholarly articles published between 1997 and 2012 [there is an] alarming link rot ratio for all three corpora: 13% of arXiv, 22% of Elsevier, and 14% of PMC articles published in 2012 suffer from link rot. These numbers only increase for older articles, for example, for articles published in 2005 the corresponding numbers are 18%, 41%, and 36%.”

Added to JURN

Mōtiō (postgraduate journal for dance practice and research)

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Zoological Letters