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Fixing Paperity

28 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Paperity appears to have been heavily depreciated in search results, by Google Search. Since circa 2015 Paperity has usefully listed and linked OA articles in hybrid journals. For five years indexing Paperity thus enabled JURN to offer coverage of the OA articles in about 50+ hybrid journals in the arts and humanities, mostly at the publisher Springer. JURN users also benefited from by-catch of hybrid journal OA articles in other subjects.

Per-article pages at Paperity now appear to be being automatically de-duplicated and discarded by Google Search, as expressed in JURN, in favour of the same article as known to sources such as Semantic Scholar and EuroPubMed (both also in JURN) and other aggregators. As a fallback I’m now indexing just the per-journal pages at Paperity (i.e. their linked lists of OA articles in a journal), and Google Search seems to treat these as an absolute backstop. Meaning that that they will show up in JURN’s results, but often only as the very last result in a short set of results. This is quite useful behaviour, as it doesn’t distract users up at the top of the results. Formerly, JURN indexed the per-article pages at Paperity, but these were no longer appearing in results. Hence the need for change.

I’m also now indexing a couple of the relevant Springer journals directly in JURN. Indexing of article pages at *.springeropen.com also serves as a further backstop. Please contact me if SpringerOpen indexing doesn’t work well for your Springer OA journal, and you would like it directly indexed in JURN.

Also, note that JURN excludes URL paths with /figures/ from SpringerOpen and Springer journal links. These are pages containing the graphics, graphs etc from the article. While useful in their own right, and as such grabbed by Google Search, they are best approached in academic search via their main article page.

Venezuelan Scielo – URL change

26 Monday Oct 2020

Posted by David Haden in New titles added to JURN, Spotted in the news

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It appears that the Venezuelan Scielo at www. scielo.org.ve/ is now just ve. scielo.org/ DuckDuckGo still indexes the old URL, which it seems no longer works. I get a pass-through to the Wayback Machine at Archive.org on hitting such dead URLs, though that’s the result of my browser plugin.

Google Search is indexing the new URL only, which works. When Google Search changes, it’s usually a sign that the old URL really is kaput.

It’s probably best to keep an eye on the other Scielo aggregators, to see if they make the same change and thus break older URL paths and Web links. They don’t appear to have made such a change, so far.

My guess would be that the .ve change could be a result of buying one of those ‘vanity’ fixes which remove the www. in an URL. After some hard-sell from a salesman such fixes usually turn out to be very expensive to maintain, and after a time the URL often defaults back to normal.

In the meantime JURN is also directly indexing Venezuela’s journals at produccioncientificaluz.org and saber.ucv.ve/ojs/ and erevistas.saber.ula.ve. The nation is starving, but their journals are still online and reachable for now. The latter two appear to have different sets of journals, despite being from the same University of the Andes.

Added to JURN

10 Saturday Oct 2020

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Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies (the life and work of the famous author of Anne of Green Gables)

Technical Bulletins of the Williamstown + Atlanta Art Conservation Center

Archiv Orientalni, 1929-2010. Later known as ArOr: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies. Partly indexed by JURN via the URL kramerius.lib.cas.cz/periodical/ — which is not ideal, in terms of either target or Google Search’s current indexing, but is the best that can be done at present.

WIPO Magazine (World Intellectual Property Organisation, JURN was already indexing the WIPO Journal).

Quantitative Science Studies (MIT, “theoretical and empirical research on science and the scientific workforce”)

Philosophy of Medicine


Luminaria (interdisciplinary natural biology, Brazil, latest issues are partly in English)

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Three more UK repositories, and the per-article record pages of IA Scholar at fatcat.wiki/release/ (the latter fairly poorly indexed by Google Search, at present).

Initial harvest of ISSNs is now integrated into the openECO directory. The process of adding ISSNs is not yet complete.

JURN fixed and repaired

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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

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JURN is now as up-to-date as it can be, ready for the “back to university” crowd. I’ve completed a link-check of the full URL base, checking for continued presence of an indexed URL path in Google Search. The full path is checked, not just the top domain (e.g. foobar.foo/foo-foo/journal_of_foo/articles/ and not just foobar.foo). This checking process has been slow, taking about 18 months, on and off.

Of course, a few URLs may still have newly broken in the meanwhile. But the core URL base is kept fresh by a regular check of the key home-page URLs, as organised and listed at the JURN Directory of arts & humanities journals (English-language journals only). This Directory was link-checked and updated in mid September 2020. Also recently link-checked, back in July 2020, was JURN’s openEco Directory of over 800 journal titles variously related to the study of wildlife, ecology etc. Please update any local copies you may be keeping.

Added to JURN

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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Journal of Facade Design and Engineering

Journal of the Asiatic Society (India)


Journal of Delta Urbanism

Journal of Coastal and Hydraulic Structures

BioDesign Research (indexing annual TOCs pages only)

Added to JURN

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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Ius Romanum (Ancient Roman law)

Wrongful Conviction Law Review, The


British & Irish Botany

CORD : Coconut Research & Development

Added to JURN

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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Norwegian-American Studies

Italian Modern Art

Architecture Philosophy

Luminary, The

Fantastika Journal

Comics Reporter, The (indexing interviews only)

Europubmed fixed — they recently changed the per-article URL path from ../articles/ to ../article/

Semantic Scholar’s harvested PDFs are back in JURN again. This also now brings in some record pages, bounced from the pdfs/.. URL path, in which case the users needs to check the URL on the record page. If it appears to be a book and the page says something like Petplayground2 . Com then you know the harvester has been somewhere dodgy and harvested a pseudo-ebook.

Thankfully the search result only appears to bounce if the PDF is 404, which means the ‘hive of scum and villainy’ has been erased.


U.S. Forest Service Treesearch service. JURN already has excellent coverage of forests and natural fire, but this adds another 54,000 selected items relevant to the USA.

Canadian Field-Naturalist, The (four-issue paywall, but worth indexing to get 2013-2019 into JURN).

Science Museum Group Journal (UK)

Added to JURN

28 Tuesday Jul 2020

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Revue des livres pour enfants (in French, magazine of the French National Library with a two-year rolling paywall and archives back to 1965).

Chroniques (quarterly magazine of the French National Library, BnF).

Journal of Gods and Monsters, The

Interviews at The Comics Reporter.

Added to JURN

30 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Scandinavica (currently poorly indexed by Google Search)

BYU Studies (Brigham Young University)

Andean Past (history of the Andes)


Entomological Communications

Added to JURN

25 Thursday Jun 2020

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Ancient Pakistan

Central Asia (Area Studies, University of Peshawar)

Pakistan Journal (University of Peshawar)

Journal of Media Studies (University of the Punjab)

Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries (University of the Punjab)

Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (University of Karachi)

Inklings Forever (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and their circles) (was lost, now found again)


Rotunda (magazine of the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium)

MycoPath (fungi and rots in Pakistan and region)

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