The JURN directory of scholarly ejournals in the arts & humanities has been link-checked and updated.

All sidebar Web links on this blog have been checked by hand, and deleted / repaired as needed.

If anyone was wondering if I have a Patreon, yes I do, if anyone enjoys using JURN and cares to spare me a few dollars a month. The Patreon is not just for JURN, but modestly helps to support expenses for my various ongoing creative and scholarly activities.

I’ve started another mass ‘link-check and clean’ of the entire JURN URL-base, looking for websites that have dropped off Google Search for some reason and are thus no longer found in JURN. My checking and repair will be progressing slowly through the first half of 2019.

Four historic journal archives at Cornell, added to the openEco directory… but they can’t be indexed by JURN.

Journal of Mycology (can’t be indexed by JURN, but noted here)

Transactions of the American Entomological Society (can’t be indexed by JURN, but noted here)

American Bee Journal and American Bee Journal 1861-1900 at the Cornell Online Beekeeping Collection (can’t be indexed by JURN, but noted here)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America (can’t be indexed by JURN, but noted here)

Someone might want to get these onto Archive.org in a more indexable form.

What Google Search has to filter out every day… demonstrated by a sample search for Lovecraft (as in the author “H.P. Lovecraft”) for just the last 24 hours. About ten valid hits, which Google has usefully brought to the top of the results — but also thousands of malware-laced fake ebook PDFs and spam pages offering ‘essay writing’ services (of the sort that claim to help students cheat their way through university).

Amazon’s search is becoming more and more useless. Search for “middle-earth” in Books: Reference, and half way through the second page of results, it starts slipping in multiple “middle-east” results. Presumably on the assumption that the searcher is a drooling idiot who’s mis-typed the search query.