15 Friday Nov 2013
Posted in My general observations
Some tweaking of the History sections, in the JURN directory. Medieval & Early Modern / Maritime / 19th Century all now have their own sections…
This serves to make the General section more genuinely General.
15 Friday Nov 2013
Posted in Spotted in the news
Excellent news. The BBC is reporting that…
“Google has defeated a legal action mounted to stop it scanning and uploading millions of books. In 2005, the US Authors Guild sued Google alleging that its plans to create a digital library amounted to massive copyright infringement. In its defence, Google said its plans constituted “fair use” because it was only putting excerpts of texts online. U.S. judge Denny Chin has now sided with Google and dismissed the case brought by the Guild.”
Wired has the full text of the ruling.
12 Tuesday Nov 2013
Posted in Spotted in the news
Read a lot of news feeds? My desktop RSS reader FeedDemon has sadly just stopped development, with a new final 4.5 version. But the developer Nick Bradbury has very kindly made the latest FeedDemon Pro 100% freeware…
“As promised, this last version of FeedDemon is completely free. All of the features of the Pro version are available, and ads are no longer shown in the bottom left of the screen.”
12 Tuesday Nov 2013
Posted in My general observations
I hadn’t noticed this before, it may be new. LinkedIn (a jobs/recruitment oriented Facebook-alike) now has its Groups in the Google Search index. So a search…
site:http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ keywords
…will allow non-members to at least tell if “there’s a group for that” on LinkedIn.
11 Monday Nov 2013
Posted in New titles added to JURN
JURN Search has been fully checked for the continuing presence of indexed articles in the Google Search results, via the use of adapted black-hat software originally intended for checking SEO back-links. Repairs of astray URLs were undertaken as a result. Both the JURN Directory and the JURN search-engine are now as up-to-date and free of link-rot as they can be.
07 Thursday Nov 2013
Posted in JURN's Google watch, Spotted in the news
It looks like I’ll be switching back to Firefox as a Web browser, over Christmas, as Google Chrome is set to block install of all extensions that don’t come from its own extension store. There is no way I could tolerate Google Search without GoogleMonkeyR, or Facebook without F.B. Purity. After The Deadline is also not on the Chrome extensions store.
07 Thursday Nov 2013
Posted in Spotted in the news
A useful new roundup of open access ejournals published from Australia.
25 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in JURN blogged, Spotted in the news
There’s a nice inclusion of Jurn.org in a new survey of Google alternatives for search, from France’s National Network of Hospital Librarians. In this instance they’re pointing to JURN’s usefulness for biomedical search, which JURN really isn’t intended for. But they find that…
“the biomedical field is still relatively well covered” [by JURN]
Which a few of my own tests just now found is true, and that’s kind of cool.
They also report that their No.1 choice, Elsevier’s Scirus search engine, will…
“unfortunately be abandoned in January 2014 [Scirus] indexes more than 575 million records of scientific content from the open web”
25 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in My general observations
Just a reminder, if you have any spare BitCoin rattling around in your wallet, that JURN accepts donations in BitCoin:
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The option to donate via PayPal was removed, as no-one had ever used it in three years. But I’m pleased to say there has been one small donation by BitCoin so far.
25 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in Spotted in the news
Academia.edu has purchased purchased the Plasmyd search-engine, and it plans to integrate Plasmyd into its own site. Plasmyd is a combo search and discussion platform.