11 Thursday Jan 2018
Posted in New titles added to JURN
American Catholic Studies (American Catholic Historical Society)
Praxis (papers of the Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium)
Origins Bulletin (International Big History Association)
08 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
Botanical Sciences (Botanical Society of Mexico)
02 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in Spotted in the news
The official Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings by Salvador Dali, fully updated after 17 years of work, and now online and public. Pictures are screen-res, in pop-ups, and there’s a small unobtrusive watermark at the bottom of each picture.
The definitive Dali sculptures catalogue is planned to be online at the end of 2018.
02 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in JURN metrics
Number of journals which this blog noted as newly added to JURN, in 2017: 302.
This compares to 340 English-language journals added to JURN in 2016, so the total is slightly down on 2016. The total wasn’t inflated by a blithe shovel-ware approach, and JURN remains highly curated and monitored.
Perhaps 40% of the newly added titles were in various fields that map onto ‘ecology/nature’, making JURN’s openEco coverage even more comprehensive. Perhaps 10% of 2017’s new titles were gathered to provide an even more comprehensive coverage of national security and defence journals. Of the rest, the majority were arts and humanities, with history featuring fairly strongly.
01 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in New titles added to JURN
MAVCOR Journal (Yale, material and visual cultures of religion, previously Conversations)
Orbital Debris Quarterly News (NASA)
Revue d’ecologie Alpine and its predecessor titles.
01 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news
If you’ve spent 2017 being periodically plagued by your ISP’s flaky DNS server, IBM Security has a fast free-and-public DNS lookup server called Quad9 at the 9.9.9.9 address. It was introduced in November, but many will have been so busy in the weeks before Christmas that the news passed them by. It’s very easy to apply, and once in use it filters out the addresses of botnets, phishing scams and the like. As well as your desktop PC, it can also be applied to your various devices and even to your router.
IBM state that Quad9 is “engineered to not store, correlate or otherwise leverage any personally identifiable information (PII) from its users.” It’s been set up as a non-profit and it passes the sniff-test among the sceptical techies at The Register, who usefully note that Quad9 also has a free IPv6 DNS server at 2620:fe::fe
Update: Regrettably it completely shuts down your DNS access if you try to run legitimate link-checking software such as Linkbot. Presumably the system flags you as a botnet if you try to run Web automation software of that type. Oh well. Which means Quad9 has been uninstalled here. Though if you don’t check the links on your websites frequently, then it may be useful to you. It can also be useful as an emergency fall-back, and the 9.9.9.9 address is easy to remember. Google has a similar product at 8.8.8.8