30 Saturday Jan 2010
Posted in Academic search, JURN's Google watch, Spotted in the news
Oh dear, now arriving in academia — the dubious ‘art’ of optimising texts to temporarily rank highly in search-engines. Testament to the power of Google, I suppose. Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar & Co. (PDF link).
26 Tuesday Jan 2010
An interesting report from official UK government researchers YouGov, The Costs of Traditional Filing (PDF link). Small and medium businesses in the UK together…
“waste an estimated £42 million each day locating paper documents. … [staff in an average firm] spend approx. 3 months a year looking for documents […] 87% of respondents spend up to 2 hours every day looking for documents”
Add to that the time untrained staff waste looking for things online, and there’s some serious business wastage going on. And I’d suspect that matters are the same in much of the public sector.
26 Tuesday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
The Hindu‘s Literary Review section (I’m able to index 2002-2009. Also indexing the book reviews, which are on another URL path)
22 Friday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:
Amirani (the peoples, cultures and languages of the Caucasus)
Cahier des themes transversaux ArScAn
( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )
19 Tuesday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Arqueologia Iberoamericana (has some articles in English)
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Papers and conference proceedings of the Music Research Group at WAAPA
(Hat-tip: Film Studies for Free)
16 Saturday Jan 2010
Posted in Ooops!, Spotted in the news
I suppose a further question is, does it extend beyond the sciences…?
“The latest in a string of high-profile academic fraud cases in China […] Several sources revealed to Nature that roughly one-third of more than 6000 scientists surveyed across six top institutions admitted to plagiarism, falsification, or fabrication.”
It seems it’s probably just as well that no independent open-access ejournals are allowed in mainland China, since otherwise they would have been easily available to researchers in the West.
15 Friday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Incite! : journal of experimental media and radical aesthetics
(Hat-tip: Film Studies for Free)
15 Friday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Focus Media Journal (University of California, Santa Barbara. The Department of Film and Media Studies’ Annual Undergraduate Publication)
15 Friday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
14 Thursday Jan 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
German Films Quarterly (with whole-issue PDFs here, from 2007-2008).