10 Saturday Jun 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent Activities” (Powerpoint, June 2017). It opens with a general introduction to the service, and only becomes relevant to the “Recent Activities” bit of the title from slide 36 through 46.
Initial prototypes of both SOLR and ElasticSearch full-text search installations were created … about 8Tb disk space (1.6Tb on high-speed SSD) for the [ElasticSearch] Search Index and the OCR text.
10 Saturday Jun 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
The new WordPress 4.8 update (available via your self-hosted dashboard now) introduces four new or improved sidebar widgets…
This 4.8 update still works with the very useful Redirect from the new WordPress.com editor to the classic WordPress editor UserScript, which can be installed in your Greasemonkey-enabled Web browser.
10 Saturday Jun 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
AdAstra : magazine of the National Space Society (offers partial access to selected articles from back issues, and free book reviews)
Mars Quarterly, The (The Mars Society)
Principium (Initiative for Interstellar Studies)
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PDFs of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, if not otherwise indexed elsewhere.
10 Saturday Jun 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
Full-text volumes of the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, freely available on Archive.org at June 2017:
The Archive.org ‘sort by date published’ then gives a sorted pre-1922 list of the volumes available in full-text.
09 Friday Jun 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Newsletter of the Society for Clay Pipe Research (UK)
Medelhavsmuseet (Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Sweden. Added to Directory only)
07 Wednesday Jun 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
Beaker is a new peer-to-peer Web browser…
“Create and share websites for free, with no advertising and no third-party services, directly from your browser. Visitors to your site rehost your files automatically on the peer-to-peer network. No blockchain required.”
05 Monday Jun 2017
Posted in Ecology additions, My general observations
JURN’s openECO: ecology/nature titles page has been checked for linkrot and repaired. It’s currently standing at 850 titles.
05 Monday Jun 2017
Posted in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology
BioResources (new uses for woody materials and pulps)
04 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
CORE is now picking up 70m record pages…
04 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Ooops!, Spotted in the news
Ryan Regier asks “What is going on with the number of Open Access Journals indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus?”…
“… it looks like Scopus added around 400 open access journals after January 2016, then another 270 after January 2017, and finally removed around 1,000 after February 1st, 2017. Removing around 1,000 open access journals is big deal. That’s almost a quarter of all the open access journals Scopus has in their collection…”
Concludes after some investigations that…
“… Scopus over-reported and mislead its customers about how many open access journals they indexed.”
I can add, from a previous post here on the JURN blog, that…
“Scopus had 60 OA arts & humanities titles in English at June 2015, a fact discoverable via their new OA tagging [in their summer 2015 master spreadsheet]. Though, after sorting, that Scopus category also included such ‘tres arty’ titles as Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration and Asian Social Science.”