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OAFindr test

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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My thanks to Klaus Graf. For a German-language blog post complaining about the lack of interest in making a good OA search engine, he has obtained and shown a screenshot of two results from OAFindr (by 1science aka One Science) for mongolian folk song. These keywords were used for my December 2015 group-test of OA search engines.

Neither of the two OAFindr results is in JURN, because they both come from a title published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education, a publisher which has long been on Beall’s List.

oafindr_search_mongolian_folk_song

Update, Nov 2017: OAFindr is now called 1Findr.

“Nurse, the screens!”

25 Friday Oct 2013

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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”

Reciprocal links

13 Thursday Jan 2011

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A few reciprocal backlinks, for those linking to JURN recently:—

Princeton University library links JURN on its Online Reference Shelf.

The Royal Library of Denmark links JURN on its main Humanities page.

The Library of the Universite Paris-Sorbonne links JURN.

Linked on the Journals page at Southern Cross University, Australia.

Linked on the Journals page at Lulea university, Sweden.

Linked on the Journals page at Singapore Management University.

Postcolonial Space journal has added the JURN search box to its courses website.

Some recent inbound links

28 Friday Aug 2009

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Researching Korean Culture adds JURN to the sidebar. Classics blog Arxaiognosia has added a JURN sidebar search-box. Medieval Studies blog Ficta Eloquentia recommends JURN. The Fondren Library at Rice University adds JURN to its online resources list for anthropology. JURN linked by Ohio Universities InfoTree. Fanshawe College lists JURN in their student guide to online resources — although claims that JURN only indexes 13 magazines(!)