12 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Meno istorija ir kritika / Art History & Criticism (latest issue in English and earlier issue partly in English — though Google does not yet have these recent issues indexed)
International Journal of Area Studies (2006-2013)
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (“intersections of global and domestic legal regimes, markets, politics, technologies, and cultures”)
IP Theory (intellectual property law)
11 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Naniiliqpita (quarterly magazine, on the people and traditions of the Canadian High Arctic)
Indigenous Affairs (and other series published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs)
Iberoamericana : Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (not to be confused with the Spanish language journal Iberoamericana : America Latina – Espana – Portugal)
Imago Temporis : Medium Aevum (medieval studies in trans-national contexts)
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt : Association for Coroplastic Studies (clay sculpture, hosted on the French revues.org but appears to be substantially in English)
Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Zootechnica (animal breeding, many farm articles but also many articles on smaller-scale and niche types of professional and conservation breeding)
08 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
Security and Strategic Trends and other series of the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich.
08 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
The image search at creativecommons.org has been given a makeover. The beta of the new design is at a new URL of ccsearch.creativecommons.org, rather than the long-standing search.creativecommons.org.
07 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just placed 200,000 CC0 images of its art and others items in its collection. So far the site is holding up nicely in terms of managing the traffic.
The test files I had from it were large, at around 4000px, and were also crisply photographed. The site’s search works cleanly and a single click downloads the largest file size as a .jpg. The only thing I’d change is to allow a Web browser’s Back button to work with the site’s search results.
06 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in My general observations
I hope JURN users have been enjoying their free access to all of SAGE’s journal PDFs in January, via JURN’s search results. Thanks to SAGE for making them free, and also for allowing Google Search to index them at the PDF level. We’re now a week into February and their free access continues. I’m checking the free access URL daily, but there may soon come a point where JURN’s SAGE links hit paywalls again — perhaps for as long as 24 hours — before the indexing URL is removed.
06 Monday Feb 2017
Newly announced for the UK…
“Today Jisc announced that OCLC, the global library cooperative, has been awarded the contract to develop a new national bibliographic knowledgebase (NBK).”
Judging by the initial press-release, the focus seems likely to rest first on cohering UK academia’s metadata management for digital book collections. This will in time…
“enable shared bibliographic metadata to flow into … global search engines”
Hopefully that means Google Search, as well as Google Scholar (which are two separate systems and databases).
05 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
Kapersky Labs is developing the FFForget tool, aiming to create a local backup of your Facebook. Hopeful it will also archive the Facebook Groups you moderate, while allowing local search of their full-text.
“The service is planned to go live in 2017 based on user’s interest. Subscribe now for free and become one of its first users!”
05 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
From the CORE blog…
“CORE is thrilled to announce that it currently provides 5 million open access full-text papers.”
A very worthy achievement, given the surprising difficulty of auto-harvesting full-text from university repositories. I’m happy to say the CORE full-text has long shown up in JURN’s search results.
04 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
A quick round-up of some helping hands for a better Facebook experience:
* the vital Facebook Purity plugin has just gone to version 18, restoring blocking of “Sponsored” ad posts in timelines.
* a new Greasemonkey script, Facebook Demetricator tweaks all the fairly pointless “View 33 comments”, “Posted 25 minutes ago” micro-messages and suchlike. Instead you just see a much more relaxed format such as “View comments”, “Posted recently” etc.
* new to me, Unseen for Facebook. Prevents your Web browser from pinging a “Seen” message to Facebook, when you open a message sent via a chat box. Possibly especially useful if your employer starts to use Facebook messaging for business purposes, when you only use Facebook for personal matters.