Half-yearly tally for JURN

Bing now offers date-limited searches in the UK. 24hrs, week, month. The USA version of Bing has had this for a long time, but — according to the latest PC Pro magazine — it’s a new feature here in the UK.

Added to JURN

15 Wednesday Jun 2016

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History of Anthropology Newsletter

Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science

Waterlines (series of 90 research reports from the National Water Commission, Australia)

Microsoft Academic tested

14 Tuesday Jun 2016

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A June 2016 study of the current incarnation of Microsoft Academic…

“It outperforms the Web of Science for nearly all articles and is an equal to Scopus.”

Regrettably I’m unable to give it a quick test, as http://academic.microsoft.com/ is totally down for me at present — despite my trying it in multiple Web browsers.

LitMed: Literature Arts Medicine Database

13 Monday Jun 2016

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LitMed: Literature Arts Medicine Database is a 3,000-item annotated bibliography covering fiction and poetry, as well as non-fiction. Noted here but not added to JURN. While some of the records have quite extensive notes and bibliographies, and all the comments are useful in some way, some of the comments are rather short and subjective and lack links to full-text.

Added to JURN

12 Sunday Jun 2016

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African Vision and Eye Health (a lone medical journal, a category currently falling outside of JURN’s orbit — but this title seems like a very worthy exception. Especially as it is not yet covered by the usual aggregator services for open medical articles)

Retraction Watch’s Weekend Reads

11 Saturday Jun 2016

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Over the last month or so Retraction Watch’s Weekend Reads has become a must-read weekly newsletter. Not just the usual slate of links to stonkingly huge retractions but also tales of academic embezzlement, an article in The Economist on the systemic problems in Chinese science and academic publishing, ghost-management of the entire process of bringing a drug to market, news of quiet Elsevier acquisitions, and how Northwestern Polytechnic University in Silicon Valley became a corrupt test-faking visa-factory. That’s just a small sample from this week’s edition. There’s also optimism-inducing stuff, like this week’s news of Google’s new ‘Science Journal’ phone app which turns your phone into a citizen-science research lab.

DOAJ results are back in JURN

11 Saturday Jun 2016

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The DOAJ TOCs and article pages are once again appearing in JURN’s search results. The DOAJ’s Google presence is still not quite fully ‘clean’ of its many “An error has occurred” pages, but my tests indicate that Google’s current level of re-indexing has removed about 80% of them. The DOAJ had been temporarily removed from JURN in mid May, due to its many “An error has occurred” pages — resulting from the DOAJ’s mass removal of 3,300 journals.