17 Tuesday Nov 2009
The Global Information Society Watch 2009 Report has been released. It’s a substantial book-length “annual report” on the state of open access to information around the world, complete with chapters about individual nations.
17 Tuesday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Journal of Language Contact : evolution of languages, contact and discourse
Paideusis : International Journal in Philosophy of Education
Journal of Narrative Theory (Sample articles only)
Pantaneto Forum (“how scientists communicate, with particular emphasis on how such communication can be improved through education and a better philosophical understanding of science”)
Philosophical Frontiers : a journal of emerging thought
Denver Journal, The (theology)
16 Monday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Critical Disability Discourse (Seems to welcome papers from various disciplines. First issue has an article on aesthetics and ethics)
Medical History (History of Medicine. On PubMed, but genuinely free. Google/JURN is only able to index the TOCs from 2000 to 2009, despite the journal having issues online from 1957 onwards)
History of Physics newsletters (Has regular book reviews)
16 Monday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Juilliard Journal Online, The (Classical musicians)
Kaizen Newsletter (Ethics and entrepreneurship)
Canadian Military History (Including the book reviews, which are kept in a different directory).
Journal of Intelligence History (Only the book reviews are free, and only from back issues)
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Online library of De Re Militari : The Society for Medieval Military History
16 Monday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added over 1,100 UK fringe theatre reviews, by indexing the Fringe Review.
15 Sunday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Mik : art history and criticism (Latvia. Substantial number of articles in English)
Chapter and Verse : a journal of popular music and literature studies
NABMSA Newsletters (Includes reviews. North American British Music Studies Association)
Journal of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance (1991-2000)
15 Sunday Nov 2009
Posted in Open Access publishing, Spotted in the news
An informed 5,000-word article on open access journals, and the debates swirling around them, in Friday’s Times Higher Educational Supplement. If you don’t know your “green” OA from your “slightly off-mauve” OA, then this is the starter article for you.
15 Sunday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
British Politics Review (Journal of the British Politics Society, Norway. Many articles of interest to historians)
Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology (Also the Simon Stevin Series in the Philosophy of Technology)
15 Sunday Nov 2009
Posted in Academic search
The HathiTrust now has a live 0.2 beta version of its impending books and journals bibliographic search. They currently have records for around 4.5 million titles, including 708,118 in the public domain (inc. the Internet Archive books and journals, which they have ingested). A breakdown of the holdings by academic discipline is here. Some of the blurb underneath the beta’s search box seems to come from May 2009, and is out-of-date.
15 Sunday Nov 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Sino-Japanese Studies (1988-2003, and 2009)
Chicago Review (Some 160 reviews from recent issues are in the open as PDF files. There are also a further 240 free PDF reviews drawn from the history of the publication)
Across the Disciplines (formerly Academic.Writing, and Language and Learning Across the Disciplines)
Chinese Cross-Currents : a Chinese-English quarterly periodical (Has some themed issues on culture, arts, ethics)