Monthly Archives: October 2009

Checked the JURN Directory page for dead links

17 Saturday Oct 2009

Posted by in New titles added to JURN

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I used Linkbot to check the entire JURN Directory page for dead links. Removed eight ejournal titles from the Directory, and removed eight from the main JURN index:—

MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (seems to have been removed from the web)

The American Editor (articles are now members-only)

Japan Book Review (removed from the search-engine site-index – the new URL can no longer be indexed without bringing in all Japan Society pages)

Indigenous Peoples Journal of Law, Culture and Resistance (seems to have been removed from the web)

United States Naval War College Review (TOCs seem to have been removed from the web, but PDFs are still there and indexed)

Journal of Language and Literature (domain left unpaid, and then hijacked)

Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices (dead domain)

transtext(e)s transcultures : Journal of Global Cultural Studies (dead domain)

Journal of Chinese Australia (seems to have been removed from the web)

If anyone knows the online whereabouts of the vanished journals, please leave a comment on this blog post.

Information-seeking behaviours in higher education

17 Saturday Oct 2009

Posted by in Academic search, Official and think-tank reports

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Two contrasting studies of information-seeking behaviours in higher education, published online in Sept/Oct 09:

Students’ Use of Research Content in Teaching and Learning : A report for the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC) 2009

Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multi-disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers