A worrying development for precision search. It appears that Microsoft Bing has stopped respecting “quote marks” for phrases.
Microsoft Bing no longer respects “quote marks”
05 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016
05 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016. An update on the now-rolling main list, and links to newer lists for hijacked journals and for dubious purveyors of metrics.
Big ducks
05 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
DuckDuckGo’s excellent Image Search has added a size filter…
Added to JURN
05 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Verbum : analecta neolatina (New Latin and Romance arts, literature and linguistics)
Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies (now back online)
Public Domain Day 2016
02 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
It’s Public Domain Day for literature and books in Canada and the UK and Europe. Hyperallergic also picks some choice artists who are now out of copyright outside the USA.
Added to JURN
01 Friday Jan 2016
Posted in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN
Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association
Reason and Respect (public discourse and debate)
Irish Journal of Public Policy
International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies
Werkwinkel : Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies (2006-2013)
Slavia Meridionalis (culture and linguistics of the southern Slavs)
Baltic-Pontic Studies (Institute of Prehistory and the Institute of Eastern Studies, Poznan, Poland)
Australian Journal of Environmental Law
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Geological Society of America’s new aggregator pages for OA articles (Google is currently only indexing the first page of these, but it’s new and so Google’s coverage is likely to expand in the coming weeks)