03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in My general observations
Working in a group that needs to find, curate and re-publish Web content? The mature Trello is an excellent collaborative tool for that, and there’s Zapier for publishing it to WordPress. Both free. There’s also a handy Trello Bookmark Creator and a Trello phone app.
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03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
FoRESEE: Future Search Engines 2014, a one day workshop in Germany, 22nd September 2014.
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
David Prosser at Jisc blogs on the need for action on discoverability…
… 40% of researchers kicked off their project with a trawl through the Internet for material, while only 2% preferred to make a visit to a physical library space. [yet] nearly half of all items within digitised collections are not discoverable via major search engines by their name or title [and, even worse] digitised collections become harder and harder to find over time, for a variety of complex reasons.
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in JURN metrics, Spotted in the news
PLOS ONE: “The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web”
“Our estimates show that at least 114 million English-language scholarly documents are accessible on the web, of which Google Scholar has nearly 100 million. Of these, we estimate that at least 27 million (24%) are freely available since they do not require a subscription or payment of any kind.”
I’d say that 27m is probably a large underestimate, given that the two engines used for the study (Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search) are proven to be poor at indexing open repositories and open access journals. Given a few hours of work I could probably winkle out from JURN a list of 100 “big” URLs, which together would put JURN at 25m (primarily in English) — before even starting to tally all the other URLs.
01 Sunday Jun 2014
Posted in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN
Thanks to various open journal suggestions I’ve picked up from Andrew Farke at Integrative Paleontologists and Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, and my own searches, JURN is now a pretty good search tool for finding free/open research on dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures and fauna.