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Ten things learned from the “Group test: repository search” post

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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So, what was learned from yesterday’s Group test: repository search?

1. Finding PhD theses by using a Google based search tool is currently not an easy task, even when the tool limits Google to academic repositories. Are you trying to discover if someone has already written a PhD on your brilliant new idea for a PhD or book topic? Then don’t expect a small flock of related open access PhD theses are going to tumble into your lap(top) via a Google search. If your topic idea is in a fairly obscure and little-covered nook, then you’re going to have to dig. (Advice from others via social media may help somewhat, but probably can’t be relied on to be fulsome and comprehensive, and asking the questions required may risk giving away your precious topic idea.)

2. The Google Search trick of adding “submitted in” to help surface full-text theses does work, after a fashion. It’s clunky and cringe-inducing, admittedly. One might use it in conjunction with other commonly used title page items such as “requirements for * degree” or simply “supervisor” etc, which would help weed out government reports, project pages and calls for research. Such a search might usefully jettison filetype:pdf and thus roam freely across PDF, DOC, HTML and TXT.

3. Google has a titling problem with repository PDFs, even well-formatted thesis documents, in terms of extracting the title and using it as as the URL anchor text. Google appears to rank a search result higher when its system can be certain that the title of the article is known. That is no doubt a fine service for mainstream “I only look at the first ten links” end users, but it also has the side effect of masking the problem. The problem becomes very evident by the second page of a narrow search using a Google-based repository search tool, when laughable link titles such as “View/Open” and “thesis.pdf” can appear. Some repositories are finally becoming a little more Google-friendly, which may start to improve such matters. But the problem may also be one of the sheer volume of PDFs Google needs to process through an automatic metadata identification and extraction tool, as well as one of having clean Google-friendly site-maps from repositories.

If governments were to mandate not just OA, but full Google compliance by OA repositories, then I suspect that might help matters enormously?

Doubtless Google search scientists continue to work hard on automated document title inference, and future tweaks to Google’s growing machine intelligence may suddenly solve this problem. Though the situation for JURN has improved dramatically over the last six years, even without assistance from advanced kitten-trained uber-bots.

4. On the evidence of this group test alone, there seems little overlap between the PhDs listed on Summon and those to be found via OpenDOAR / GRAFT / Google Search / Scholar. This also seems true of OAIster and the British Library PhD search (I see the latter now has a useful OA indicator icon alongside results, and has generally become much more usable). So the standard advice that people need to cover multiple search tools to conduct a decent literature search remains good advice, and seems especially pertinent to those who operate outside of academia or large corporations.

5. Microsoft Academic does not seem to be returning searches based on an indexing of the full-text.

6. Impressive claims made about the size of FreeFullPDF seem to be overstated. For this search it could only return 32 results.

7. $14.6 million has been spent by the EU on the OpenAIRE portal, and yet it has consistently performed very poorly on JURN’s other group tests. But on this test it actually proved useful. It found two good theses on the microbial aspects of Arctic permafrost methane cycling, which no Google-based tool could surface.

8. Masters and undergraduate dissertations are commonly confused with each other and with PhD theses, in search results. This is the case even with Summon’s “Dissertations” facet, which appears to jumble undergraduate / Masters / PhD work into the same search results. Presumably it’s just not worth the grunt work needed to sort and tag them by type, especially since a humble one-year Masters dissertation is often aggrandised by referring to it as a thesis.

9. There seems to be huge scope for a small field, such as Film Studies, to build its own hand-crafted curated index of open access PhD theses. (Tip: look at WordPress for that, not Omeka. In my view Okema is not yet suitable for such tasks, having recently used it myself to build a catalogue of local natural history publications).

10. Finally, I might note that it’s curious that there has apparently been so little PhD thesis activity on the topic since 1980, given the huge commercial and political interest in gas hydrates and methane release. It’s perhaps understandable that some exploration / energy sector theses would be commercially sensitive, and thus not available. But a comparison search of Summon suggests that’s only the case in a handful of theses. A search of OAIster for the super-wide search methane arctic also gives a mere 15 theses/dissertations in English, six of those being on prehistoric time periods. Given all the unknowns around frozen hydrates, including the environmental impacts, one would have expected to have discovered a wave of theses on frozen hydrates and the environmental interactions. Perhaps it is simply too expensive for grad students to travel to the permafrost Arctic for weeks of work, though there are said to be many grants available for anything related to global warming in the Arctic. Or do grad students in the field simply prefer to publish in group expedition reports and co-authored journal articles? Maybe my thinking is just too individualistic, since I come from the humanities, and I am not sufficiently in tune with the collectivised nature of modern science? Perhaps that’s so, but then that should not have prevented individual PhDs on hot topics such as: the geopolitical dimensions of Arctic hydrates; world energy security futures; industrial extraction methods; international policy and treaties; or the ‘poster child’ use of permafrost hydrates in the rhetoric around greenhouse warming and the so-called ‘methane bomb’ / ‘carbon bomb’. So I just note here the curious mismatch between the media coverage and the apparent lack of interest shown by graduate students.

Group test: repository search

28 Friday Aug 2015

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Here’s a test of JURN’s new GRAFT search tool. The topic of Arctic methane hydrates seems an apt choice for testing repository search tools, since they are in the news — as a possible new fuel source, a potential greenhouse gas emitter (if permafrost melts), and a potential trigger for geo-political aggression by Russia — and yet are also likely to be discussed in repositories due to these various concerns.

Since repositories in aggregate are a vast pool into which to throw a simple keyword search, I’m focusing on PhD theses. I do this in a clunky way, by simply adding the phrase “submitted in” after the keywords. This is an unvarying part of the standard wording used somewhere in the first three or four pages of nearly all thesis PDFs in English, even if the PDF has had a university-branded cover page affixed by the repository. The stock phrasing used is either “submitted in partial fulfillment” or “submitted in fulfillment”, so the simpler phrase “submitted in” should pick up full-text PDFs that use either wording.

Further, I am specifically looking for post-1980 English-language theses that have modern-day Arctic frozen methane hydrates as a strong focus. So I discount ‘paleo-methane’ theses (methane hydrates in prehistoric time periods), theses on lab-only work or industrial chemistries, hydrate deposits elsewhere in the world, high atmospheric methane, or natural methane emitted seasonally from bogs and lakes (which, by definition, cannot be either permafrost or sea-bed hydrates).

So the search for this test is:

methane hydrates arctic “submitted in”

The addition of the keyword “permafrost” might have been useful in terms of trying to lock results to the high Arctic, rather than having them diverge to different locations (hydrates occur globally). But that would have omitted results disussing methane hydrates under the Arctic ocean.

JURN group test of repository search tools:
methane hydrates arctic “submitted in”
 
August 2015. Searching for post-1980 theses in English, on contemporary methane hydrates in the Arctic or Arctic coastal waters.
BASE 0   Zero from six results. Chose to “boost Open Access documents”.
PQDT Open 0   Zero from 13 results. Omitted “submitted in”, since this tool is designed specifically to “Find Open Access Dissertations and Theses”. All full-text theses in results, but nothing was specifically on the Arctic.
DART Europe (UK and European research theses) 0   Zero from one result. Omitted “submitted in” since this tool is designed specifically to find theses. The one result was on prehistoric time periods.
Digital Commons Network (aka Bepress.com) 0   Zero from four results. Top result “Atmospheric Ethane-Methane Relationship and Implications for the Arctic” called itself a thesis but actually proved to be an undergraduate Honours dissertation. To be fair to the DCN I then removed “submitted in” and re-tested. The first 30 results lacked focus but did yield three possible results (“Planning Ahead for the Commercial Development of Offshore Methane Hydrates”; “Arctic Energy Resources: Security and Environmental Implications”; and “Balancing the Deglacial Global Carbon Budget: The Hydrate Factor”), but these all proved to be journal articles.
Microsoft Academic 0   Zero results for a search including “submitted in”, suggesting Microsoft is indexing records and not full-text. Tried again, without “submitted in”. First 40 results yielded nine possibilities, after removal of ten duplicates. One was “404 Not Found”, and none proved to be theses. Microsoft Academic seems better suited to finding technical reports and conference papers, at least for this topic.
Google Scholar 1   Tested with an unmodified Internet Explorer, not logged in to Google. Excluded Patents. Checked first 40 results. Scholar veers strongly toward chemistry on this topic, but the No.1 result was labelled as a “book” from 2003, “Methane hydrate production from Alaskan permafrost” — the citeseerx.ist.psu.edu link for this timed out repeatedly. Investigation of this item via the main Google found it was a detailed Powerpoint. The other possibility in the first ten results proved to be a lab-based undergraduate honours dissertation. On the second page “Geophysical characterizations of fluid flow and gas-hydrate systems of the NW-Svalbard and SW-Barents Sea margins” was a possibility, but proved to be “404 not Found”. “Well engineering concepts to make methane gas hydrate exploitation affordable” was a thesis and a hit. A faint possibility titled “Oil & Natural Gas Technology” at egcfe.ewg.apec.org proved to be “404 Not Found”. Possible candidates on ocean sediments lacked any focus on the Arctic, or were Masters dissertations, or proved to be on prehistoric periods. The military futurist/policy dissertation “Engagement in the Arctic” proved to be a Masters, and did not focus on hydrates. The similar “Marine Corps Equities in the Arctic” military dissertation also proved to be a Masters, and was also not focused on hydrates.
CORE 1   Examined first 40 results. Top two results were two scientific Arctic cruise reports, both duplicates of each other. Several relevant journal articles and two theses were in the first ten results. The thesis “Formation processes of clathrate hydrates of carbon dioxide and methane” proved to be on the chemistry involved, and had no real focus on the Arctic. The No. 6 result was the thesis “Well engineering concepts to make methane gas hydrate exploitation affordable”, which gave a sound overview of the “perma frost land environment” in which exploitation would have to occur. As such, this was counted as a hit. No. 12 was also a thesis, “Thermoelastic properties of salt hydrates and implications for geological structures” but proved to be on chemistry with implications for the geology of the outer solar system. The third page yielded “Analysing recent spatial and temporal atmospheric methane variations using forward and inverse modelling”, but this thesis was on computer modelling of atmospheric methane levels. Another on “Methane in deep sea hydrothermal plumes” proved to be on Indian sub-sea seeps. “Scaling up of methane flux: a case study in the UK uplands” was of a thesis on a peat bog in North Wales which, despite its dismal climate, is not in the Arctic. The fourth page yielded only a Chemical Engineering thesis focused on the gases industry, “Multi-scale Analysis of Methane Gas Hydrate Formation”.
OpenAIRE ($14.6 million EU-funded portal) 2   Examined first 40 results. Omitted “submitted in”, then sorted by the “Thesis” and “Open Access” facets. First ten results produced three possibilities. “Microbial perspectives of the methane cycle in permafrost ecosystems in the eastern Siberian Arctic” was a hit. The second was about Indian sub-sea seeps. The third, “[The] … exchange of methane between wet Arctic tundra and the atmosphere [in] Siberia” proved to have no full-text available. The second page of ten results yielded a further three possibilities, of which “Methane-cycling microbial communities in permafrost … Western Canadian Arctic” was a hit. The others were a duplicate, and a thesis on Indian sub-sea seeps. The final 20 results had two possibilities, being tangential studies of the general biological methane production in the Arctic bogs.
Google Search 2   Used an unmodified Internet Explorer, not logged in to Google. Examined first 40 results. Google was confused by press reports, government reports, short research calls and project home pages. However, the first page of results did unearth the recent high-quality thesis “Numerical Investigations of the Fluid Flows at Deep Oceanic and Arctic Permafrost-Associated Gas Hydrate Deposits”, although this was mostly focused on the applied maths of the topic. The third page popped up the previously seen hit “Well engineering concepts to make methane gas hydrate exploitation affordable”. Correct use of the document title in results links proved to be especially poor on later results pages, suggesting Google may be ranking higher on results it knows to have correct titles. Possibilities on the fourth page were found to be Masters dissertations or had been seen and discounted in previous searches.
FreeFullPDF 2   Two from 32 results. (Google based. For a list see the results table at the foot of this article)
OpenDOAR 3   Examined first 40 results. (Google based. For a list see the results table at the foot of this article)
GRAFT 3   Examined first 40 results. (Google based. For a list see the results table at the foot of this article.)

Some conclusions.

FREE FULL PDF results (only had 32 results):

1. “Spatial and Temporal Characterization of A Cold Seep-Hydrate”.
Undergraduate dissertation.
2. “Download”.
Thesis, but not specific to the Arctic.
3. “SEISMIC IMAGING OF GAS HYDRATE RESERVOIR”.
Thesis, but not specific to the Arctic.
4. “Stewart DEng 2011 Well engineering.pdf”.
Thesis, a hit.
5. “Climate and deep water formation regions”.
Thesis, but on prehistoric periods.
6. “Kinetics of Gas Hydrate Nucleation and Growth”
7. “Marine Electromagnetic Methods for Gas Hydrate Characterization”
8. “Geoengineering climate by stratospheric sulfur injections”
9. “Distribution and fate of methane released from submarine sources”
10. “Distribution and fate of methane released from submarine sources”.
Thesis, one of the areas studied was inside the Arctic circle.

11. “ARCTICMOCEAN SCIENCE”.
1999 military summary of past ‘Arctic Ocean science from submarines’.
12. “JOIDES Journal 28(1)”.
Journal article.
13. “thesis.pdf”.
Thesis, but not relevant.
14. “A study of carbon-14 of paleoatmospheric methane”.
Prehistoric methane.
15. “博 士 学 位 論 文”.
Proved to be ‘404 not found’.
16. “Scales over Shale: How Pennsylvania Got Fracked”.
17. “Download (9Mb)”.
Prehistoric.
18. “BEARING ROCKS IN NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA”.
Prehistoric.
19. “Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview”.
20. “SASKIA VAN GAEVER”.
Thesis, but general biogeography.

21. “Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Northern Peatlands”.
Undergraduate dissertation, North American bogs.
22. “Airborne observations and regional flux estimates of greenhouse …”
23. “Methane Fluxes at a Temperate Upland Forest in Central Ontario”.
24. “Investigation into the possible use of an oxygen ion transport …”
25. “High-resolution paleoceanography and modeling of abrupt warming …”.
Prehistoric.
26. “Download (2732Kb)”.
On the high atmosphere.
27. “Download PDF”.
On Mediterranean soils
27. “Download (2650Kb)”.
Hydrographic expedition report, on ocean circulation.
29. “ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY OF POLYFLUORINATED …”
30. “wireless gas leaking detector mohamad fadli bin ismail”

31. “AZU_TD_BOX192_E9791_…”
Prehistoric.
32. “Hydrolysis and Atmospheric Oxidation Reactions of Perfluorinated …”

OpenDOAR results (first 40 results):

1. “microbial populations and processes in subseafloor marine”.
About the coastal shelf of Peru.
2. “Download”.
Thesis, but not specific to the Arctic.
3. “FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF …”.
Arctic seabed survey followed by computer modelling of seabed.
4. “Academic Commons – Columbia University”.
Chemistry.
5. “SEISMIC IMAGING OF GAS HYDRATE RESERVOIR …”.
Seismic exploration, not specific to Arctic.
6. “Methane Production from Natural Gas Hydrates”.
7. “THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE …”.
8. “Stewart DEng 2011 Well engineering.pdf”.
9. “Climate and deep water formation regions: Changes through …”.
Prehistoric.
10. “Marine Electromagnetic Methods for Gas Hydrate Characterization”.
Not Arctic.

11. “Microbial Inhibition of Methane Clathrate Hydrates”.
A Masters dissertation.
12. “Methane Storage and Transport via Structure H Clathrate Hydrate …”.
Industrial storage.
13. “SEDIMENT BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF NORTHERN CASCADIA …”.
Vancouver Island in Canada, not in the Arctic.
14. “Distribution and fate of methane released from submarine sources”.
Thesis, one of the areas studied was inside the Arctic circle.
15. “Hydrate Phase Equilibria Study of CO2 Containing Gases in …”.
Chemistry.
16 “Temporal Variations in the Compliance of Gas Hydrate Formations”.
Vancouver Island in Canada, not in the Arctic.
17 “BLOCKAGE DETECTION IN NATURAL GAS PIPELINES BY …”
Industrial processes, pipe cleaning.
18. “Physical Properties of Marine Sediments and their Application …”
19. “annual progress report – Lunar and Planetary Institute”.
Hydrates on the planet Mars.
20. “Natural Gas Hydrates – from the Microstructure towards a …”.
Gulf of Mexico and the Black Sea.

21. “thesis.pdf”
22. “microbial diversity and connectivity within and between oceanic and …”
23. “INVESTIGATING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE CARBON-CYCLE …”.
Prehistoric.
24: “View/Open”.
Chemistry. Downloaded file had to be renamed to load as a PDF.
25. “A study of carbon-14 of paleoatmospheric methane for the last …”.
Prehistoric.
26. “The paleoceanography of the Bering Sea during the last glacial …”.
Prehistoric.
27. “博 士 学 位 論 文”.
Proved to be ‘404 not found’.
28. “Scales over Shale: How Pennsylvania Got Fracked”.
29. “Dubin_thesis.pdf”.
Prehistoric.
30. “Lunar and Planetary Institute Annual Report 2009”.
Passing reference to hydrates on Mars.

31. “Microbial and functional diversity associated with hydrocarbon …”.
Australia.
32. “BEARING ROCKS IN NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA”.
Prehistoric.
33. “Thesis final draft6.pdf”.
Prehistoric.
34. “The Arctic Voice at the UN Climate Negotiations”.
Has a passing one-line mention of Russian demands.
35. “Airborne observations and regional flux estimates of greenhouse …”
Atmospherics.
36. “Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview”.
37. “Microbial metabolism in the deep ocean”.
38. “Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Northern Peatlands”.
Masters dissertation, on North America.
39. “The Expedition of the Research Vessel “Polarstern” to the Arctic in…”.
Multi-author book of reports. One article on “Survey of methane flares” at a mud volcano.
40. “CARBON ADDITION DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE …”
Prehistoric.

GRAFT results (first 40 results):

1. “Atmospheric Ethane-Methane Relationship and Implications for the …”.
About the Arctic, but an undergraduate dissertation.
2. “Spatial and Temporal Characterization of A Cold Seep-Hydrate …”.
Undergraduate dissertation.
3. “microbial populations and processes in subseafloor marine”.
About the coastal shelf of Peru.
4. “Download”.
Thesis, but not specific to the Arctic.
5. “SEISMIC IMAGING OF GAS HYDRATE RESERVOIR …”
Seismic exploration, not specific to Arctic.
6. “THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE …”
7. “Stewart DEng 2011 Well engineering.pdf”
8. “Climate and deep water formation regions: Changes through …
Prehistoric.
9. “Kinetics of Gas Hydrate Nucleation and Growth”
10. “Marine Electromagnetic Methods for Gas Hydrate Characterization”
Not Arctic.

11. “Naval Research Laboratory Arctic Initiatives”
Detailed military Powerpoint with several slides on the impact of methane release on Navy issues.
12. “The Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Hanna Basin, WY …”
Prehistoric.
13. “Distribution and fate of methane released from submarine sources”.
Thesis, one of the areas studied was inside the Arctic circle.
14. “ARCTICMOCEAN SCIENCE”.
1999 military summary of past ‘Arctic Ocean science from submarines’.
15. “annual progress report – Lunar and Planetary Institute”.
Hydrates on the planet Mars.
16. “thesis.pdf”.
17. “A study of carbon-14 of paleoatmospheric methane for the last …”
Prehistoric.
18. “博 士 学 位 論 文”.
Proved to be ‘404 not found’.
19. “Scales over Shale: How Pennsylvania Got Fracked”.
20. “Download (9Mb)”.
Prehistoric.

21. “Marine Corps Equities in the Arctic”.
Military Masters dissertation, not focused on hydrates.
22. “BEARING ROCKS IN NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA by …”.
Prehistoric.
23. “Thesis final draft6.pdf”.
Prehistoric.
24. “Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview”.
25. “Download (23MB)”.
Prehistoric
26. “Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Northern Peatlands”.
Masters dissertation, on North America.
27. “CARBON ADDITION DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE …”.
Prehistoric.
28. “Airborne observations and regional flux estimates of greenhouse …”.
Use of a light aircraft with commercially available kit, to accurately measure methane emission flux from ground level by flying over “the European Arctic wetlands” and London. A thesis but on wetland Arctic bogs, not frozen hydrates in Arctic permafrost.
29. “ADSORPTION OF NATURAL GAS AND HYDROGEN ON Cu3(btc)2 …”.
Undergraduate dissertation, chemistry.
30. “View/Open”.
Masters dissertation. Fracking and water protection.

31. “Methane Fluxes at a Temperate Upland Forest in Central Ontario”.
Masters dissertation, not Arctic and not hydrates.
32. “Investigation into the possible use of an oxygen ion transport …”
33. “High-resolution paleoceanography and modeling of abrupt warming …”
Prehistoric.
34. “Download (2732Kb)”.
Atmospherics, southern hemisphere.
35. “View/Open”.
Survey of global ocean policy.
36. “Download PDF”.
Mediterranean.
37. Download (2650Kb).
Relevant, but not a thesis. Expedition final report. 2009. Surveyed “northern Bering Sea, western and eastern channels of Bering Strait and several transects across the Chukchi Sea … acoustic sounding of seabed for the purpose of investigation of underwater congelation and availability of gaseous-hydrates within the sedimentary layer”.
38. “ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY OF POLYFLUORINATED …”
Atmospheric.
39. “Remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases”.
Masters, looked at Australian/Antarctic sites.
40. “Hydrolysis and Atmospheric Oxidation Reactions of Perfluorinated …”
Surveyed high Arctic ice-caps for novel fluorinated compounds. But no focus on methane hydrates.

Summon results, for comparison. Filtered by “Dissertation” / “Full-text online”. No use of “submitted in” in search terms. First 40 results tested. Five results, of which one was to be found free online:

* = Relevant
* + Bold = Relevant and Open Access

* 1. Combustion of Methane Hydrate.

* 2. Numerical investigations of the fluid flows at deep oceanic and arctic permafrost-associated gas hydrate deposits.

* 3. Performance and economics of methane hydrate reservoirs.

* 23. Reservoirs Modeling of Gas hydrate deposits in North Slope of Alaska and Gulf of Mexico.

* 27. Activity, diversity and community structure of aerobic methane-oxidizing and carbon dioxide-producing bacteria in soils from the Canadian high Arctic.

(Also noted was 32, “An analysis of the hypothetical climatic impact of methane hydrate destabilization”, but this proved to be a Masters from 1992.)

Conclusions: Ten things learned from the “Group test: repository search”.

A-Z of articles in New Zealand Journal of History, 1967-2013

24 Monday Aug 2015

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A-Z of articles in the New Zealand Journal of History 1967-2013. This is just so that the Googlebot can get access to them, by getting it past the page’s fiendish javascript obfuscation. The A-Z may also save some New Zealand researchers a whole lot of tedious menu-expanding mouse-clicking. Note that the server is prone to time-outs, although that may just be a problem with my UK-to-NZ connection.

* A Bibliography of Writings by Judith Binney
* A Bibliography of Writings by M. P. K. Sorrenson, by Stephen Innes
* A Bibliography of Writings by Sir Keith Sinclair
* A Blank Page Approach’: Diverse Influences on New Zealand’s Picot Taskforce Deliberations, 1987–1988, by Roger Openshaw
* A Brave New World? Ideal Versus Reality In Postwar Naenae, by Ben Schrader
* A Click to the Past: Digital History in New Zealand, by Jock Phillips
* A dead sheet covered with meaningless words?’ Place Names and the Cultural Colonization of Tauranga, by Giselle Byrnes
* A Debt of Honour: New Zealanders’ First Anzac Days, by Scott Worthy
* A Destiny at Home, by W. H. Oliver
* ‘A disappearing race before we came here’: Doctor Alfred Kingcome Newman, the Dying Maori, and Victorian Scientific Racism, by John Stenhouse
* A Discourse on Critical Method, by Miles Fairburn
* A Good Idea of Colonial Life’: Personal Letters and Irish Migration to New Zealand, by Angela McCarthy
* A History of Small Numbers: Indians in New Zealand, c.1890-1930s, by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
* A New Zealand Myth: Kupe, Toi and the ‘Fleet’, by D. R. Simmons
* A Political Struggle: Christchurch Labour Politics 1905-1913, by Jim McAloon
* A State of Infancy: The Anti-Transportation Movement in New Zealand, 1848-1852, by Gregory Picker
* A Subtle Containment: Women in New Zealand Medicine, 1893-1941, by Michael Belgrave
* A Thousand Miles of Loyalty: The Royal Tour of 1901, by Judith Bassett
* A Tribute to Keith Sorrenson, by Alan Ward
* A Tribute to W.H. Oliver on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, by Claudia Orange and Peter Munz
* A Weakness for Strong Subjects: The Women’s Movement and Sexuality, by Barbara Brookes
* Aboriginal Title and Treaty Rights Research: A Comparative Look at Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, by Arthur J. Ray
* Act of Parliament or Royal Prerogative? James Stephen and the First New Zealand Constitution Bill, by Sonia Cheyne
* Amen, Amen!’ Christianity, Society and Visions of the Future in 1920s New Zealand, by Tobias Harper
* America Between the Wars: The Seventh Form American Option Revised, by Michael S. Mayer
* An Ambiguous Past: Representing Maori History, by Michael Reilly
* An Analysis of an Industrial Boarding School, 1847-1860: A Phase in Maori Education, by Judith Nathan
* An Anatomy of the Practice of Law in Nineteenth-Century Auckland, by R. C. J. Stone
* An Antidote to Bookishness’: Local History, Educational Practices and Colonialism in New Zealand Primary Schools, 1900–1940, by Rachel Patrick
* An Antimodern Manque: Monte Holcroft and The Deepening Stream, by James Smithies
* An Appeal from Fenton to Fenton’: The Right of Appeal and the Origins of the Native Appellate Court, by Grant Phillipson
* An Australasian Utopist: Robert Pemberton F.R.S.L, by J. R. Rockey
* An Exercise in Maori Autonomy: The Rise and Demise of the Maori War Effort Organization, by Claudia Orange
* An ‘unholy alliance’: The 1968 Nil Wage Order, by Pat Walsh
* An Unlimited Liability: Free Medicines and Labour’s Social Security Act 1938, by Astrid Baker
* Anthropological Football: Maori and the 1937 Springbok Rugby Tour of New Zealand, by Greg Ryan
* Antipodean Crab Antics, by Anne Salmond
* Anzac Day in New Zealand, 1916-1939, by Maureen R. Sharpe
* Archives for New Zealand Social History, by S. R. Strachan
* Archivists and Historians: How Can We Assist Each Other?, by Cheryl Y. Campbell
* At Every Bend a Taniwha’: Thomas Kendall and Maori Carving, by Judith Binney
* Auckland Party Politics in the Early Years of the Provincial System, 1853-58, by Russell Stone
* Australia, Argentina and Atomization, by John Hirst
* Australian Nationalism: Tasmanian Patriotism, by Henry Reynolds
* Banks, Bligh and Breadfruit, by David Mackay
* Behold a Kite Flies towards You’: the Kiingitanga and the ‘Opening’ of the King Country, by Tui Adams, Ngahinaturae Te Uira and Ann Parsonson
* Between Biculturalism and Assimilation: The Changing Place of Maori Culture in the Twentieth-Century New Zealand Mormon Church, by Ian Barber
* Beyond the Search for Good Imperialism: the Challenge of Comparative Ethnohistory, by Deborah Montgomerie
* Bifurcated and Not Ashamed’. Late Nineteenth-Century Dress Reformers in New Zealand, by Jane Malthus
* Bishop G. A. Selwyn and the Melanesian Mission, by David Hilliard
* Bitter Recollections? Thomas Chapman and Benjamin Ashwell on Maori Flourmills and Ships in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Hazel Petrie
* Boarding the School Bus, by Logan Moss
* Books on Elizabethan and Stuart History for Schools, by M. A. R. Graves
* Bringing families up to scratch’: The Distinctive Workings of Maori State Welfare, 1944-1970, by Bronwyn Labrum
* British History: a Plea for a New Subject, by J. G. A. Pocock
* British Interest in the Southern Oceans, 1782-1794, by David Mackay
* Burdens of Belonging: Indigeneity and the Re-Founding of Aotearoa New Zealand, by Miranda Johnson
* Bush Cinderellas: Young New Zealanders and Romance at the Movies, 1919-1939, by Charlotte Greenhalgh
* Business and Politics in Queensland 1859-1895, by G. P. Taylor
* Busting Up’ The Greatest Estate of All. Liberal Maori Land Policy, 1891-1911, by Tom Brooking
* By Which Standards? History and the Waitangi Tribunal, by Jim McAloon
* By Which Standards? History and the Waitangi Tribunal: A Reply, by Giselle Byrnes
* Candidates Should Attempt to Answer All the Questions, by Kendrick Smithyman
* Chastising Its People With Scorpions’: Maori and the 1913 Smallpox Epidemic, by Alison Day
* Child Cruelty or Reasonable Punishment? A Case Study of the Operation of the Law and the Courts, 1883-1903, by Sally Maclean
* Child Employment in New Zealand, by Jeanine Graham
* Childhood’s Sole Serious Business: The Long Haul to Full School Attendance, by Colin McGeorge
* Choosing Peace or War: The 1863 Invasion of Waikato, by Vincent O’Malley
* Christchurch in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic: A preliminary study, by Geoffrey Rice
* Christianity and the Maoris to 1840, by J. M. R. Owens
* Christianity and the Maoris to 1840: A Comment, by Judith Binney
* Church and State in German Samoa: the Solf-Broyer Dispute, by Hugh Laracy
* Churchgoing in New Zealand, 1874–1926: How ‘Mediocre’ was it, by Alison Clarke
* Churchgoing in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Hugh Jackson
* Cities and Ceremonies: Nationalism and Civic Ritual in Three New Lands, by Graeme Davison
* Class and Social Structure in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Claire Toynbee
* Class in Colonial New Zealand: Towards a Historiographical Rehabilitation, by Jim McAloon
* Class, Status and Reminiscence: a Research Note, by David G. Pearson
* Closing the Gaps’: From Postcolonialism to Kaupapa Maori and Beyond, by Nepia Mahuika
* Colonial Culture and the Province of Cultural History, by Chris Hilliard
* Colonial Justice: The Treatment of Dalmatians in New Zealand During the First World War, by Judith Basset
* Colonists and Aborigines in the Early Australian Settlements, by W. P. Morrell
* Commentary. The Treaty and the Purchase of Maori Land, by Alan Ward
* Community and Gender in Victorian Auckland, by Dean Wilson
* Community in Rural Victorian New Zealand, by Rollo Arnold
* Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand, 1894-1901: The Evolution of an Industrial Relations System, by James Holt
* Conservation and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Graeme Wynn
* Constructing Homes: Gender and Advertising in Home and Building. 1936-1970, by Louise Shaw and Barbara Brookes
* Consultation or Information? Britain, the Dominions and the Renewal of Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1911, by Neville Bennett
* Count Felix von Luckner’s 1938 ‘Propaganda’ Visit to New Zealand and Its Consequences, by James N. Bade
* Crime and Punishment in New Zealand, 1840-1913: a Gendered History, by Charlotte Macdonald
* Cultural Colonization and National Identity, by Peter Gibbons
* Cultural Colonization and Textual Biculturalism: James Belich and Michael King’s General Histories of New Zealand, by Jacob Pollock
* Diasporas, by Malcolm Campbell
* Did Muldoon really’go too slowly’with CER? by Philippa Mein Smith
* Digital History in Canterbury and New Zealand, by James Smithies
* Disease and the Colonial Narrative: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Western Polynesia, by Phyllis Herda
* Displacement, Conservation and Customary Use of Native Plants and Animals in New Zealand, by Ross Galbreath
* Doctrinaires on the Right: The Democrats and Anti-Socialism, 1933-36, by Michael C. Pugh
* Documenting Maori History: The Arrest of Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki, 1889, by Alan Ward
* Doing Well for Bella: Foreign Mortgagees In The New Zealand Financial System, 1885-1901, by Margaret N. Galt
* Drink and the Historians: Sober Reflections on Alcohol in New Zealand, 1840-1914, by Greg Ryan
* Drug-besotten, sin-begotten fiends of filth’: New Zealanders and the Oriental Other, 1850-1920, by Brian Moloughney and John Stenhouse
* Early European History and African Anthropology, by Peter Munz
* Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery, by J. C. Beaglehole
* Elderly Indigents and Old Men’s Homes, by Margaret Tennant
* Emigration and Kinship: Migrants to New Plymouth 1840-1843, by Raewyn Dalziel
* Empire Settlement and Single British Women as New Zealand Domestic Servants During the 1920s, by Katie Pickles
* English Rural Unionism and Taranaki Immigration, 1871-1876, by Rollo Arnold
* Enlightened Buying’: From Consumer Service to the Consumers’ Institute, 1959-1964, by Ian Brailsford
* European Discovery of New Zealand Before 1642: A Review of the Evidence, Evelyn Stokes
* Evolution of the Melanesian Bishopric, by R. M. Ross
* Fairburn’s New Zealand From a Vantage of North American Studies, by Clyde Griffen
* Familiarising the Foreign’: New Zealand Soldiers’ Observations on Landscape During the Gallipoli Campaign, by Matthew Cunningham
* Faraway Fordism: The Americanization of Australia and New Zealand during the 1950s and 1960s, by Mark Rolfe
* Feminine as her Handbag, Modern as her Hairstyle’: The Uptake of the Contraceptive Pill in New Zealand, by Barbara Brookes, Claire Gooder and Nancy De Castro
* Fighting the ‘Red Plague’: Observations on the Response to Venereal Disease in New Zealand 1910-1945, by Philip Fleming
* Finches, Fossils and Foscarini or the Future of Historical Study, by Peter Munz
* Fitchett’s Fallacy and Music at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 18891890, by David Murray
* Folkland to Bookland: F.D. Fenton and the Enclosure of the Maori ‘Commons’, by M.P.K. Sorrenson
* Freethinkers in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by P. J. Lineham
* Friendly Societies 1842-1938: The Benefits of Membership, by Jennifer Carlyon
* From Civil Death to Separate Property: Changes in the Legal Rights of Married Women in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Bettina Bradbury
* From Compulsory Unionism to Unqualified Preference: The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1961, by Pat Walsh
* From Family Helpmeet to Lady Dispenser. Women Pharmacists 1881-1939, by Louise Shaw
* From Paternalism to (Partial) Autonomy: The Evolution of Children’s Rights in New Zealand, by Claire Breen
* Gender and Relativism in Recent Feminist Historical Scholarship, by Susan Moller Okin
* GI Joe Down Under: American Infantrymen in New Zealand During World War II, by Deborah Montgomerie
* Giving Better Effect to the Treaty: Some Thoughts for 1990, by M.P.K. Sorrenson
* God’s Own Silence: Secular Nationalism, Christianity and the Writing of New Zealand History, by John Stenhouse
* Gods, Warriors or Kings? Images of the Land in South Africa and New Zealand, by William H. Worger
* Government Responses to Unemployment in New Zealand, 1929-35, by R. T. Robertson
* Governor FitzRoy’s Debentures and their Role in his Recall, by Jonathan Adams
* Governor Macquarie and the Economic Crisis in New South Wales, 1810-1815, by T. G. Parsons
* Governors versus Settlers: The Dispute over Chinese Labour in German Samoa, by Stewart Firth
* Haeremai, Te Waka! The 1925 United States Fleet Visit to New Zealand and its Strategic Context, by Peter Sales
* Half-Castes between the Wars: Colonial Categories in New Zealand and Samoa, by Toeolesulusulu D. Salesa
* Healthy, Economic, Disciplined Bodies. Surfbathing and Surf Lifesaving in Australia and New Zealand, 1890-1950, by Douglas Booth
* Hear Our Voices We Entreat: Schools and the ‘Colonial Twang’ 1880-1930, by Colin McGeorge
* Henry Williams’ Leadership of the CMS Mission to New Zealand, by Robin Fisher
* Hidden under Many Bushels’: Lady Victoria Plunket and the New Zealand Society for The Health of Women and Children, by Melanie Oppenheimer
* Historians as Imperialists: Some Roots of British Imperial History 1880-1900, by Luke Trainor
* Historic Preservation in Urban New Zealand: An Historian’s Perspective, by David Hamer
* Historical Consciousness and the Unemployed: Invoking Symbols from the Past to Protest a Cause, by Cybele Locke
* History and Historians before the Waitangi Tribunal: Some Reflections on the Ngai Tahu Claim, by Alan Ward
* History and Histrionics, by Nicholas Tarling
* History for Schoolteachers: Seventeenth-Century England, by Barry Reay
* History in New Zealand Schools, by Marcia Stenson
* History in Secondary Schools 1976: A Year’s Survey, by D. S. Keen
* History, Art or Game? A Comment on ‘The Purity of Historical Method’, by J. W. Davidson
* Honolulu Maori’: Racial Dimensions of Duke Kahanamoku’s Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1914-1915, by Gary Osmond
* Housewives’ Depression: The Debate Over Abortion and Birth Control in the 1930s, by Barbara Brookes
* How British? Local Government in New Zealand to c.1930, by John Cookson
* How far did Class Determine Voting in New Zealand General Elections, 1911-1951? by Miles Fairburn and Stephen Haslett
* How The Road to Life (1931) Became the Road to Ruin: The Case of the Wellington Film Society in 1933, by Simon Sigley
* How to Civilize Savages: Some ‘Answers’ from Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by M. P. K. Sorrenson
* How we prepare them in India’: British Diasporic Imaginings and Migration to New Zealand, by Rosalind McClean
* Human Rights in World War II in New Zealand, by Nan Taylor
* Humor in America, by Robert Sklar
* I don’t care what it is going to cost, I am prepared to pay’: Men’s Voices and Abortion in New Zealand, 1919-1937, by Joanne Richdale
* I riro i te hoko’: Problems in Cross-Cultural Historical Scholarship, by Angela Ballara
* Ideology and the Formation of the New Zealand Labour Party, by Jack Vowles
* If there’s not one near you now, there soon will be’: American Fast-food Chains come to New Zealand, by Ian Brailsford
* Illiberal New Zealand: The Formation of Government Policy on Conscientious Ojection, 1940-1, by J. E. Cookson
* Imperial Federation: Continuity and Change in British Imperial Ideas, 1869-1871, by Michael Burgess
* Imperial Jubilee: W. P. Morrell’s Contributions to Imperial History, by W. David Mclntyre
* Improving’ the Maori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage, by Kate Riddell
* In Defence of Race and Empire: The White New Zealand League at Pukekohe, by Jacqueline Leckie
* In Search of Sir Joseph Ward, by Michael Bassett
* In spite of Tooley Street, Montagu Norman, and The Reserve Bank’s Governor’ by Simon Boyce
* Instant History, by David Butler
* Interracial Sexual Violence in 1860s New Zealand, by Angela Wanhalla
* Invading the Waikato: A Postcolonial Re-view, by Simon Dench
* Irish Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900, by Lyndon Fraser
* Isolation, Ideology and Impotence: Organizations for the Unemployed during the Great Depression, 1930-1935, by R. T. Robertson
* James Cowan and the Frontiers of New Zealand History, by Chris Hilliard
* James Gibb’s Heresy Trial, 1890, by L. H. Barber
* Jocks’-of-all-trades: Genealogical Methods, Occupational Profiles and New Zealand’s Scots, 1840-1920, by Rebecca Lenihan
* John Logan Campbell, Frank Connelly and Trespiano: Literary Evidence in Biography, by R. C. J. Stone
* John Stuart Mill’s Feminism: The Subjection of Women and the Improvement of Mankind, by Susan Moller Okin
* John White. Part II: Seeking the Elusive Mohio: White and his Maori Informants, by Michael Reilly
* John White: the Making of a Nineteenth-Century Writer and Collector of Maori Tradition, by Michael Reilly
* Keeping New Zealand White, 1908-1920, by P. S. O’Connor
* Kiwi Keith and Kinloch: A Closer Look at Holyoake’s ‘Proudest Achievement’, by Paul Hamer
* Korero: A Reflection on the Work of Judith Binney, by Damon Salesa
* Labour’s Lost Legions: The Second Labour Government 1957-60 and the Grassroots Party Membership in the Auckland Region, by Barry Gustafson
* Land for the Landless: Settlement of the Otekaike Estate in North Otago 1908, by Bob Hall
* Land Settlement and Voting Patterns in the Otago Provincial Council 1863-1872, by G. W. Kearsley, T. J. Hearn and T. W. H. Brooking
* Law and Law-enforcement on the New Zealand Frontier, 1840-1893, by Alan Ward
* Law, History and the Treaty of Waitangi, by Paul McHugh
* Lessons’ of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Auckland, by Linda Bryder
* Lest We Forget? The Fading of New Zealand War Commemorations, 1946-1966, by Helen Robinson
* Liberal Democracy: Pakeha Political Ideology, by Jack Vowles
* Local Community or Atomized Society? The Social Structure of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Miles Fairburn
* Lolly Shops ‘of the red-light kind’ and ‘soldiers of the King’: Suppressing One-Woman Brothels in New Zealand, 1908-1916, by Bronwyn Dalley
* Looking beyond the Asylum. Gender and the Process of Committal in Auckland, 1870-1910, by Bronwyn Labrum
* Looking Forward: Historians and the Waitangi Tribunal, by Michael Belgrave
* Lord Durham and the New Zealand Company, by Helen Taft Manning
* Lord Rosebery and the Imperial Federation League, 1884-1893, by M. D. Burgess
* Louis Hartz’s Fragment Thesis, by James Holt
* Making a New Zealand Day: The Creation and Context of a National Holiday, by Helen Robinson
* Making New Zealand Articulate’: The Progressive Publishing Society, 1941-45, by Rachel Barrowman
* Maori and Muskets from a Pan-Polynesian Perspective, by Paul D’Arcy
* Maori And Pakeha–-Two Peoples or One’: Ralph Piddington and ‘Symbiosis’ in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand, by Dan Morrow
* Maori Christianity on the East Coast 1840-1870, by Kay Sanderson
* Maori Health and Heaton Rhodes as Minister of Public Health, 1912-1915, by Geoffrey W. Rice
* Maori Land Title Improvement since 1945: Communal Ownership and Economic Use, by Aroha Harris
* Maori Oral Narratives, Pakeha Written Texts: Two Forms of Telling History, by Judith Binney
* Maori Oral Narratives, Pakeha Written Texts: Two Forms of Telling History, by Judith Binney
* Maori Texts and Official Ventriloquism, by Hazel Petrie and Hohipere Tarau
* Marriage and Mobility in Wellington 1881-1980, by David Pearson
* Maungapohatu Revisited: or, How the Government Underdeveloped a Maori Community, by Judith Binney
* Medicine, Death and the Gospel in Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay, 1845-1852, by Paul Goldsmith
* Members for Everywoman? The Campaign Promises of Women Parliamentary Candidates, by Sandra Wallace
* Mortgage Relief, Farm Finance, and Rural Depression in New Zealand in the 1930s, by Barrie MacDonald and David Thomson
* Most Important Industry: How the New Zealand State got Interested in Rural Women, 1930-1944, by Ian Carter
* Most Injudicious… Most Injurious’: The Royal Bank of Australia’s Loan to the New Zealand Government, 1842, by Marion Diamond
* Mothers of the World: Women, Peace and Arbitration in Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand, by Megan Hutching
* Moving Out of the Realm of Myth: Government Child Welfare Services to Maori. 1925-1972, by Bronwyn Dalley
* Mr Wakefield and New Zealand as an Experiment in Post-Enlightenment Experimental Practice, by Erik Olssen
* Mrs Grace Neill in the Department of Asylums, Hospitals and Charitable Institutions, by Margaret Tennant
* My Piece of Land at Taieri’: Boundary Formation and Contestation at the Taieri Native Reserve, 1844-1868, by Angela Wanhalla
* Myth, Race and Identity in New Zealand, by James Belich
* Nation and Migration: Postcolonial Perspectives, by Giselle Byrnes
* Native Bird Protection, National Identity and the Rise of Preservation in New Zealand to 1914, by Paul Star
* New Light on the Mapping and Naming of New Zealand, by Brian Hooker
* New Zealand and Australasian Federation, 1883-1901: Another View, by Miles Fairburn
* New Zealand and the Mau in Samoa: Re-assessing the Causes of a Colonial Protest Movement, by I.C. Campbell
* New Zealand at the 1930 Imperial Conference, by Priscilla Williams
* New Zealand is Butterland’: Interpreting the Historical Significance of a Daily Spread, by Frances Steel
* New Zealand ‘Naturally’: Ernst Dieffenbach, Environmental Determinism and the Mid Nineteenth-Century British Colonization of New Zealand, by Robert Grant
* New Zealand Oral History: Some Cultural and Methodological Considerations, by Michael King
* New Zealand Regional History and its Place in the Schools, by W. J. Gardner
* New Zealand: An Antipodean Exception to Master and Servant Rules, by Jon Henning
* New Zealanders and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, by Ann Trotter
* New Zealand’s Attitudes to the Reform of the League of Nations: The Background of the Memorandum to the Secretary-General, 16 July 1936, by Kathryn Peters
* New Zealand’s Changing Natural History. Evidence from Dunedin, 1868-1875, by Paul Star
* New Zealand’s Twentieth-Century Pacifics: Memories and Reflections, by Kerry Howe
* New Zealand’s Vote for Prohibition in 1911, by Richard Newman
* No Colonists are more Imbued with their National Sympathies than Scotchmen’: The Nation as an Analytical Tool in the Study of Migrant Communities, by Tanja Bueltmann
* No Mean City? Christchurch’s Labour City Council during the Depression, 1927-1935, by James Watson
* No White Policy in NZ’: Fact and Fiction in New Zealand’s Asian Immigration Record, 1946-1978, by Sean Brawley
* Of Verandahs and Fish and Chips and Footie on Saturday Afternoon: Reflections on 100 Years of New Zealand Historiography, by Jock Phillips
* Old Myths and New Politics. Some Contemporary Uses of Traditional History, by Tipene O’Regan
* On Place, Space and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Tony Ballantyne
* Opera in the Antipodes. A Forgotten Aspect of the Nineteenth-century Trans-Tasman Entertainment Industry, by Adrienne Simpson
* Oral and Other History, by W. H. Oliver
* Our History, Our Selves. The Historian and National Identity, by Jock Phillips
* Our Motto, No Compromise’: The Ideological Origins and Foundation of the Communist Party of New Zealand, by Kerry Taylor
* Overworked Children? Child Labour in New Zealand, 1919-1939, by Rosemary Goodyear
* Owning the Otago Peninsula: The Role of Property in Shaping Economy, Society and Environment, 1844-1900, by Jonathan West
* Pacific Islands History in the Vernacular: Practical and Ethical Considerations, by Doug Munro
* Pacifists and Anti-militarists in New Zealand, 1909-1914, by R. L. Weitzel
* Pai Marire and Raupatu at Tauranga 1864-1867, by Evelyn Stokes
* Paranoid Popery: Bishop Moran and Catholic Education in New Zealand, by Hugh Laracy
* Pastoralist and Maoris, Frederick Weld at Wharekaka, by Jeanine Williams
* Patterns and Traditions of Loyalty in the Chinese Community of Singapore, 1900-1941, by Yong Ching Fatt
* Pay-fixing Reform in the New Zealand Public Service, 1912-1948, by Pat Walsh
* Performing ‘New Zealand’: Maori and Pakeha: Delegates at the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, Hawai’i, 1934, by Fiona Paisley
* Personality in Foreign Policy: Sir Carl Berendsen in Washington, by Ann Trotter
* Phantom Limbs: Concert Dance in New Zealand from the 1930s to the 1980s, by Marianne Schultz
* Pioneering History: Negotiating Pakeha Collective Memory in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, by Fiona Hamilton
* Planter versus Protector. Frank Cornwall’s Employment of Gilbertese Plantation Workers in Samoa, 1877-1881, by Doug Munro
* Politicians and Suffragettes: Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand, 1891-1893, by Patricia Grimshaw
* Politics Swept Under a Domestic Carpet’? Fracturing Domesticity and the Male Breadwinner Wage: Women’s Economic Citizenship, 1920s-1940s, by Melanie Nolan
* Pompallier and the Treaty, by Peter Low
* Popper on Historicism and Marxism, by Robert Nola
* Popular Protest in Early New Plymouth: Why did it Occur? by Raewyn Dalziel
* Population Ageing Among Non-Maori New Zealanders in Later Victorian Times: A Quirk of Immigrant Settlement History? by Brian Heenan
* Porangahau: The Formation of an Eighteenth-Century Community in Southern Hawke’s Bay, by Angela Ballara
* Poverty in Freeman’s Bay 1886-1913, by Paul Husbands
* Pre-emption, the Treaty of Waitangi and the Politics of Crown Purchase, by Michael Belgrave
* Prisons without Men: the Development of a Separate Women’s Prison in New Zealand, by Bronwyn Dalley
* Prohibition and the Myth of 1919, by Paul Christoffel
* Prohibition and Women: The Preservation of an Ideal and a Myth, by A. R. Gigg
* Prohibition, the Church and Labour: A Programme for Social Reform, 1890-1914, by A. R. Grigg
* Promoting Paradise: Utopianism and National Identity in New Zealand, 1870-1930, by Dominic Alessio
* Psychology and History, by W. F. Mandle
* Queen Victoria, Gladstone and the Viceroyalty of India, 1893-1894, by J. Chandran
* Racial Attitudes of New Zealand Officials in Western Samoa, by Mary Boyd
* Reconnaissance: Twentieth-Century New Zealand War History at Century’s Turn, by Deborah Montgomerie
* Reflections on the Writing of New Zealand History, by Graeme Wynn
* Religion and New Zealand Society, by Ian Breward
* Religion in Schools: A Catholic Controversy, 1930-1934, by I. A. Snook
* Religion, Churches and Childhood in New Zealand c. 1900-1940, by Geoffrey Troughton
* Religious Structures, reviewed by Marae) of the Windward Society Islands: The Significance of Certain Historical Records, by Roger C. & Kaye Green
* Reluctant Ally: New Zealand’s Entry into the Vietnam War, by David McCraw
* Repression and Reform: Responses within New Zealand Rugby to the Arrival of the ‘Northern Game’, 1907-8, by Geoffrey T. Vincent and Toby Hatfield
* Return Migration of Vietnamese Aucklanders, by Geoffrey Moore
* Revitalizing Te Ika-a-Maui: Maori Migration and the Nation, by Nepia Mahuika
* Reweti Kohere’s Model Village, by Lachy Paterson
* Richard Seddon and Popular Opposition in New Zealand to the Introduction of Chinese Labour into the Transvaal, 1903-1904, by Jeremy Martens
* Rugby, War and the Mythology of the New Zealand Male, by J. O. C. Phillips
* Rural Myth and Urban Actuality: The Anatomy of All Black and New Zealand Rugby 1884-1938, by Greg Ryan
* Saint-Making: The Case of Pierre Chanel of Futuna, by Hugh Laracy
* Same-sex Desire and the Asylum: a Colonial Experience, by Chris Brickell
* Savagery and Civilization: Early Victorian Notions, by Pat Moloney
* Schooled by Nature’: Pakeha Tramping Between the Wars, by Kirstie Ross
* Secret Writers in Foreign Lands: John White and William Wyatt Gill, by Michael Reilly
* Selling Sandow: Modernity and Leisure in Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand, by Caroline Daley
* Settler Capitalism Unsettled, by Donald Denoon
* Show Us These Islands and Ourselves …Give us a Home in Thought’ by W. L. Renwick
* Sinister’ Auckland Business Cliques, 1840-1940, by R. C. J. Stone
* Sir George Grey and Irish Nationalism, by R. P. Davis
* Sir Harry Atkinson and the Conservative Faction in New Zealand Politics, 1879-1890, by Judith Bassett
* Sir Julius Vogel, 1876-1880: From Politics to Business, by Raewyn Blackstock
* Sir Keith Sinclair, Photograph by Marti Friedlander
* Sisterly Ministrations. The Social Work of Protestant Deaconesses in New Zealand 1890-1940, by Margaret Tennant
* Slicing Australian History: Reflections on the Bicentennial History Project, by Graeme Davison
* Small-Town Capitalism and Stratification in New Zealand 1880-1930, by D. G. Pearson
* So Strange a Proceeding’: Murder, Justice and Empire in 1830s Hokianga, by Jennifer Ashton
* Social Mobility and Opportunity in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Miles Fairburn
* Social Welfare: Social Justice or Social Efficiency? Duncan MacGregor and Charitable Aid Administration 1886-1896, by Margaret Tennant
* Social Welfare: Social Justice or Social Efficiency? Social Policy in the Liberal Period, by W. H. Oliver
* Soldiers and Shirkers’: Modernity and New Zealand Masculinity During the Great War, by Steven Loveridge
* Some Australasian Aspects of New Zealand Life, 1890-1913, by Rollo Arnold
* Some Continuities in Indian History in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, by I. J. Catanach
* Some Financial and Medico-Political Aspects of the New Zealand Medical Profession’s Reaction to the Introduction of Social Security, by D. G. Bolitho
* Some New Zealand Navvies: Co-operative Workers, 1891-1912, by P. J. Gibbons
* Some Observations on the Status of Maori Women, by Judith Binney
* Some Observations on the Status of Maori Women, by Judith Binney
* Some Reasons for the Failure of the Roman Catholic Mission to the Maoris, 1838-1860, by Jane Thomson
* Some Recent Writings about East Asia in the 1930s and the Origins of War in the Pacific, by Ann Trotter
* Some Recent Writings on the History of Great Britain from 1832 to 1868, by Michael Cullen
* Songlines from Aotearoa, by Judith Binney
* Specially suitable men?’ Subsidized Medical Services for Maori, 1840-1940, by Derek Dow
* Stabat mater dolorosa: Death, Photography and Collective Mourning, by Sandra Callister
* Staffing Native Administration in the Mandated Territory of Samoa, by I.C. Campbell
* Stories of Becoming: The Centennial Surveys and the Colonization of New Zealand, by Chris Hilliard
* Structure and Event in Anthropology and History, by Philip Rousseau
* Sukarno and the Nature of Indonesian Political Society: A Review of the Literature, by Anthony Reid
* Surveying – Maori and the Land: an Essay in Historical Representation, by Giselle Byrnes
* Taking off the Black Singlet, by Caroline Daley
* Taking the Long View on Pensions, by David Thomson
* Tangata Whenua and Enlightenment Anthropology, by J. G. A. Pocock
* Taradale Meets the Ideal Society and its Enemies, by Caroline Daley
* Te Mana Tuatoru: the Rohe Potae of Tuhoe, by Judith Binney
* Te Mana Tuatoru: The Rohe Potae of Tuhoe, by Judith Binney
* Te Papa’s Community Gallery: Presenting Migrant Stories at ‘Our Place,’ by Michael Fitzgerald
* Te Peeke o Aotearoa. The Bank of King Tawhiao, by Stuart Park
* Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Texts and Translations, by R. M. Ross
* Texts and Translations’: Ruth Ross and the Treaty of Waitangi, by Rachael Bell
* The 1935 Election and the ‘Kelly Gang’: An American Observation, by Michael Bassett
* The Awkward Ones–Dealing with Conscience, 1916-1918, by P. S. O’Connor
* The ‘Battle of the Borough’ and the ‘Saige o Timaru’: Sectarian Riot in Colonial Canterbury, by Sean Brosnahan
* The Beauty of Health: Cora Wilding and the Sunlight League, by Nadia Gush
* The Beginnings of Credit Finance on the China Coast: The Canton Financial Crisis of 1812-1815, by W. E. Cheong
* The Causes of War: The Two World Wars Compared, by F. H. Hinsley
* The Chartists and Education, by Michael Cullen
* The Coastal Trade of New Zealand Prior to World War One, by Simon Ville
* The Collapse of the Early National Council of the Women of New Zealand, 1896-1906, by Roberta Nicholls
* The Colonial Helpmeet: Women’s Role and the Vote in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Raewyn Dalziel
* The Colonial Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago: No Idle Rich, by Jim McAloon
* The Constitutional Implications of Lord Jellicoe’s Influence on New Zealand Naval Policy, 1919-1930, by Ian C. MacGibbon
* The Contamination of Arcadia? Class, Trans-national Interactions and the Construction of Identity, 1890-1913, by James Bennett
* The ‘Continuous Ministry’ Revisited, by Raewyn Dalziel
* The Covenant of Kohimarama: A Ratification of the Treaty of Waitangi, by Claudia Orange
* The Curious Case of Two Australasian Traitors, or New Zealand, Australia and the Cold War, by Anne-Marie Brady
* The Death of Knowledge: Ghosts on the Plains, by Te Maire Tau
* The Devil You Know: New Zealand’s Recognition Policy Towards Cambodia from 1978-1990, by Anthony Smith
* The East Coast Petroleum Wars: Raupatu and the Politics of Oil in 1860s New Zealand, by Vincent O’Malley
* The Economic Interpretation of Imperialism: a Comment on Some Recent Writings, by M. R. Stenson
* The Employment Contracts Act and the Demise of the New Zealand Clerical Workers Union, by Peter Franks
* The Establishment of the Canterbury Society of Arts: Forming the Taste, Judgement and Identity of a Province, 1850-1880, by Warren Feeney
* The European States System and the Origin of the First World War 1903-1915: the Fischer School and the German Role in War Origins, by Luke Trainor
* The Expansion of a Competitive Society: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Maori Social History, by Ann R. Parsonson
* The Far Side of the Search for Identity: Reconsidering New Zealand History, by Peter Gibbons
* The Fate of the ‘Savage’ in Pacific Historiography, by K. R. Howe
* The Fiji Cotton Boom in the Eighteen-sixties, by Evelyn Stokes
* The French Alternative to the Treaty of Waitangi, by Peter Tremewan
* The Great Wave of Enthusiasm’: New Zealand Reactions to the First World War in August 1914 – A Reassessment, by Graham Hucker
* The Heritage of Isaiah: Thomas Kendall and Maori Religion, by Judith Binney
* The Heritage of Isaiah: Thomas Kendall and Maori Religion, by Judith Binney
* The Impact of John A. Lee’s Expulsion upon the Labour Party, by Erik Olssen
* The Imperialism of the ‘Little England Era’: the Question of the Annexation of the Fiji Islands, 1858-1861, by C. C. Eldridge
* The Land of the Wrong White Crowd’: Anti-racist Organizations and Pakeha Identity Politics in the 1970s, by Miranda Johnson
* The Langdale Settlement: Idle Land Transformed, by Don Kinnell
* The Lee-Sutch Syndrome: New Zealand Labour Party Policies and Politics, 1930-40, by Keith Sinclair
* The Limitations of Wartime Change. Women War Workers in New Zealand, by Deborah Montgomerie
* The Lost Drawing of Nukutawhiti, by Judith Binney
* The Making of New Zealand’s 1920 Health Act, by Geoffrey W. Rice
* The Maori Economy of Hauraki 1840-1880, by Paul Monin
* The Maori Health Nursing Scheme. An Experiment in Autonomous Health Care, by Alexandra McKegg
* The Maori Lands Question and the Fall of the Grey Government, 1879, by R. C. J. Stone
* The Maori Response to Christianity in the Thames-Waikato Area, 1833-1840, by K. R. Howe
* The Matamata Estate, 1904-1959: Land Transfers and Subdivision in the Waikato, by D. B. Waterson
* The Methodist Mission and Fiji’s Indians: 1879-1920, by Andrew Thornley
* The Military Administration of Western Samoa, 1914-1919, by Mary Boyd
* The Military Reputation of Sir George Grey: the Case of Wereroa, by B. J. Dalton
* The Missionary Marsden: An Australian View, by A. T. Yarwood
* The Models of Home?: Influences on Medical Practice at Ashburn Hall, Dunedin, 1882-1910, by Elspeth Knewstubb
* The Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition: Christchurch Labour and Working-Class Culture, by Libby Plumridge
* The need is ever present’: the Motherhood of Man Movement and Stranger Adoption in New Zealand, by Anne Else
* The New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company: A Pioneer of Refrigeration, by R. C. J. Stone
* The New Zealand Legion, 1932-1935, by Michael C. Pugh
* The New Zealand School Journal and The Imperial Ideology, by E. P. Malone
* The New Zealand Tablet and the Irish Catholic Press Worldwide, 1898-1923, by Heather McNamara
* The New Zealand Unemployed Workers Movement, 1931-1939: Gisborne and the Relief Workers’ Strike, by Paul Harris
* The Obvious and the Awkward: Postcolonialism and the British World, by Katie Pickles
* The Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Te Ara, by Jock Phillips
* The Orderly Frontier: The World of the Kauri Bushmen 1860-1925, by Duncan Mackay
* The Origins of the Anglo-Maori Wars: A Reconsideration, by Alan D. Ward
* The Origins of the Labour Party: A Reconsideration, by Erik Olssen
* The Other Story: Changing Perceptions of State Housing, by Ben Schrader
* The Pleasure of Walking, by Lydia Wevers
* The Policy of Land Sales Control: Sharing the Sacrifice, by Jane Thomson
* The Political Origins of Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand: A Comparison with Great Britain, by James Holt
* The Politics of Post-War Consumer Culture, by Chris Brickell
* The Post-Assimilationist Thought of Sir Apirana Ngata: Towards a Genealogy of New Zealand Biculturalism, by Jeffrey Sissons
* The Purity of Historical Method: Some Sceptical Reflections on the Current Enthusiasm for the History of Non-European Societies, by Peter Munz
* The Removal of Compulsory Arbitration and the Depression of the 1930s, by John E. Martin
* The Rise of National Socialism 1919-1933: A Review of Some Recent Literature, by Margaret Lamb
* The Round Table Movement: Lionel Curtis and the Formation of the New Zealand Groups in 1910, by John Kendle
* The Rural Myth and the New Urban Frontier: An Approach to New Zealand Social History, 1870-1940, by Miles Fairburn
* The Seamen’s Union and Industrial Militancy, 1908-13, by Erik Olssen
* The Second Ballot: A New Zealand Electoral Experiment, by David Hamer
* The Seven Servants of Ham: Labourers’ Letters from Wellington in the New Zealand Journal, 1840-1845, by Sue Middleton
* The Skeleton and the Mollusc: Reflections on the Nature of Historical Narratives, by Peter Munz
* The Skilled Workers: Journeymen and Masters in Caversham, 1880-1914, by Judi Boyd and Eric Olssen
* The Solf Regime in Western Samoa: Ideal and Reality, by John A. Moses
* The Struggle for 1: The Emergence of the Shearers’ Union in the 1870s, by John E. Martin
* The Sumner Cave Controversy Reconsidered: Provincialism, Identity and ‘Colonial’ Science, by Francis Reid
* The Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Company Limited 1882-9: a Study of the Relationship of Business and Government, by R. C. J. Stone
* The Ties that Bind’: Irish Catholic Testamentary Evidence from Christchurch, 1876-1915, by Lyndon Fraser
* The Tin Trade in the Malay Peninsula during the Eighteenth Century, by Dianne Lewis
* The Two Worlds of Anne Salmond in Postmodern Fancy-Dress, by Peter Munz
* The Ultimate Crisis of the Waihi Gold Mining Company, by Jeremy Mouat
* The Unimportance of Arbitration? The New Zealand Waterfront 1915-1951, by Anna Green
* The Wars of British Succession, by Nicholas Tarling
* The West Coast Railways and New Zealand Politics, 1878-1888, by G. J. Rosanowski
* The Whence of the Moriori, by D. G. Sutton
* The ‘Working Class’ and the Liberal Party in 1890, by Christopher Campbell
* The ‘Working Class’ in New Zealand, by Erik Olssen
* The World Wars and the British in Southeast Asia, by Nicholas Tarling
* ‘The Wretched Gorilla Damnification of Humanity’: The ‘Battle’ Between Science and Religion over Evolution in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by John Stenhouse
* Thinking Local: Knowledge, Sociability and Community in Gore’s Intellectual Life, 1875-1914, by Tony Ballantyne
* Thomas Hunter and the Campaign against Eugenics, by Tony Taylor
* Thomas Shepherd and the First New Zealand Company, by Paul Moon
* Tomorrow Magazine and New Zealand Politics 1934-1940, by Andrew Cutler
* Towards a Radical Reinterpretation of New Zealand History: The Role of the Waitangi Tribunal, by M. P. K. Sorrenson
* Towards an Urban Social History for New Zealand, by Clyde Griffen
* Town Versus Gown in Auckland 1872-1919, by Stuart Wallace
* Towns in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by D. A. Hamer
* Travel-Happy’ Samoa: Colonialism, Samoan Migration and a ‘Brown Pacific’, by T. Damon I. Salesa
* Treaty-Making in Early Colonial New Zealand, by Vincent O’Malley
* Truby King and the Plunket Society: An Analysis of a Prescriptive Ideology, by Erik Olssen
* Truby King in Australia. A Revisionist View of Reduced Infant Mortality, by Philippa Mein Smith
* Tuki’s Universe, by Judith Binney
* Two to Tango: The Partnership Between Charity and the Welfare State in New Zealand 19401970, by Margaret Tennant
* Two Worlds? by K. R. Howe
* Understanding Mr Gladstone, by D. A. Hamer
* Unemployment, Government and the Labour Market in New Zealand, 1860-1890, by John E. Martin
* Pictorialism, Photography and Colonial Culture, 1880-1940, by Felicity Barnes
* ‘The Very Life-Blood of the Country’: Germs, Dairying and Public Health in New Zealand, c.1890-1910, by Katrina Ford
* Ulster Protestant Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Canterbury, by Lyndon Fraser and Sarah Dwyer
* Use it or Lose it. Unravelling the Land Debate in Late Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, by Tom Brooking
* Venus and the Lonely Kiwi: The War Effort of Miss Ettie A. Rout, by P. S. O’Connor
* W. T. Mills, E. J. B. Allen, J. A. Lee and Socialism in New Zealand, by Erik Olssen
* Wahine Rangatira: Maori Women of Rank and their Role in the Women’s Kotahitanga Movement of the 1890s, by Angela Ballara
* Walter Mantell, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Race Relations in New Zealand, by Joanne Wilkes
* We Carry the Joyous News that has Made us Free’: New Zealand Missionaries, the Bolivian Indian Mission and Global Engagement, 1908-1930, by Hugh Morrison
* Whatever Happened to Poor Mr Yate? An Exercise in Voyeurism, by Judith Binney
* Whatever happened to poor Mr Yate?’ An Exercise in Voyeurism, by Judith Binney
* Whatever Happened to the Gentry? The Large Landowners of Ashburton County, 1890-1896, by Steven Eldred-Grigg
* What’s Wrong with Emma? The Feminist Debate in Colonial Auckland, by Judith Elphick
* Where To From Here? Reflections on the Twentieth-century Historiography of Nineteenth-century New Zealand, by Eric Olssen
* Which Barrier Was Broken? Broken Barrier and New Zealand Cinema in the 1950s, by Barbara Brookes
* Whither the Rural Working Class in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand?, by John Martin
* Why are Race Relations in New Zealand Better Than in South Africa, South Australia or South Dakota?, by Keith Sinclair
* Why did New Zealand not join the Australian Commonwealth in 1900-1901?, by F. L. W. Wood
* William Pember Reeves, The Times, and New Zealand’s Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900-1908, by Ralph H. C. Hayburn
* William Soltau Davidson: A Pioneer of New Zealand Estate Management, by Mervyn Palmer
* With one accord rejoice on this glad day’: Celebrating the Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Otago, by Alison Clarke
* Working with Peter Fraser in Wartime, Personal Reminiscences, by Alister McIntosh
* Yeomen and Nomads: New Zealand and The Australasian Shearing Scene, 1886-1896, by Rollo Arnold

Listmania search retired

23 Sunday Aug 2015

Posted by in My general observations

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I’ve decided to retire my little Amazon Listmania search tool, since the lists are aging now and Amazon is heavily discouraging anyone from making new ones. If anyone wants to re-create it on their own Google CSE space, or harvest/archive them for some Fan Studies -ish reason, then here is the URL list…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/
http://www.amazon.ca/*/lm/*/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/*/lm/*/
http://www.amazon.com/*/lm/*/

To search Listmania’s USA lists you can also use plain ol’ Google Search with…

intitle:keyword “A Listmania! list by”

“SFX Miscellaneous Free Ejournals Target”

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by in Academic search, Economics of Open Access, Spotted in the news

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“SFX Miscellaneous Free Ejournals Target: Usage Survey Among the SFX Community“, Serials Review (2015), 41(2), pp. 58-68.

SFX is an OpenURL link resolver product for university libraries, focussed on the output of traditional publishers — of which 16-20% is apparently so dodgy in terms of quality that it breaks the system. Yet, rather amazingly, it appears that much of this 16-20% is still allowed to get to the point-of-use.

The article briefly surveys recent findings on how SFX copes with open access articles, and then the rest of the paper gives the results of a survey of librarians who integrate a specific ‘free’ section of SFX with their library discovery tools. It appears that scholars looking for open free full-text via SFX can expect way over 20% dead link errors on URLs…

… one category [of failure] (incorrect parse params) alone leads to 20% false positives (dead links) for MFE [the largest ‘free’ target in SFX]. Besides incorrect parse params, there are numerous other reasons for the occurrence of false positives (dead links), such as resolver translation error, inaccurate embargo data, provider target URL translation error, incomplete provider content, wrong coverage dates, indexed-only titles mistakenly considered as fulltext titles, and other reasons listed in the literature review section.”

So that might mean… perhaps 40% of links to open access full-text are dead? Or even more, like… 60%? The article doesn’t hazard a guess.

The DOAJ ‘targets’ are apparently not much better…

It’s an irony that I find discovery services generally have much poorer coverage of Open Access than Google Scholar. … Most discovery services have indexed DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), but many libraries experience such a bad linking experience they just turn it off” — Aaron Tay, July 2015.

I’m pleased to say that JURN should have close to zero dead links on standalone journals, due to the way it is set up. JURN may lead to a few fleeting “server maintainance” / “timeout” errors here and there, but if the journal’s base URL for articles moves then its articles effectively get auto-removed from JURN’s results. But they get found again within a year at most, through an effective two-pronged method.