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Paperity, a rip of Springer.com open access articles

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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A fab new open access site called Paperity has ripped all the Springer.com open access PDF articles and metadata from hybrid journals, into a TOCs directory and article pages, along with a basic search tool. I also noticed SAGE Open while trawling through the 2,000 or so titles, but otherwise it seems to be wall-to-wall Springer.com. Almost all the journals are science, but here’s my filtering of just the arts & humanities journal titles (and, of those, the ones that currently offer at least some OA articles)…

African Archaeological Review
American Journal of Dance Therapy
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Archival Science
Archaeologies
Archives and Museum Informatics
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Asian Journal of Business Ethics
Children’s Literature in Education
Contemporary Islam
Contemporary Jewry
Continental Philosophy Review
Criminal Law and Philosophy
Dao (Taoist)
European Journal of Futures Research
Geoheritage
Identity in the Information Society
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
International Journal of Anthropology
International Journal of Hindu Studies
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Jewish History
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Journal of Archaeological Research
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Cultural Economics
Journal of Ethics, The
Journal of Indian Philosophy
Journal of Maritime Archaeology
Journal of Philosophical Logic
Journal of Poetry Therapy
Journal of Religion and Health
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the Knowledge Economy
Journal of World Prehistory
Law and Philosophy
Marketing Letters
NanoEthics
Neophilologus (medieval books and literature)
Neohelicon (literature)
Philosophia
Philosophical Studies
Philosophy & Technology
Publishing Research Quarterly
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Review of Religious Research
Sexuality & Culture
Studies in East European Thought
Studies in Philosophy and Education
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Water History

Since these are all indexed by Google, all OA articles from Springer are now showing up on JURN searches (if they weren’t already being brought in via JURN’s indexing of www.springeropen.com). I’ve also added the above journal links to the JURN Directory, with a “(via Paperity)” rider.

Removed most of academia.edu

07 Thursday Aug 2014

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Removed most of http://www.academia.edu from JURN. It has been getting way too spammy for some time now, even with my use of exclusion URLs to remove the bulk of CVs, and it increasingly dominated JURN search results to the detriment of journals. Overall quality also seems to be suffering.

For now, I’m keeping just the academia.edu “Documents in…” thematic collection pages [ via http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/*_* ] since they don’t clutter/dominate the JURN results.

In Our Time access, outside the UK?

27 Sunday Apr 2014

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I’m considering adding the vast archive of the BBC Radio’s uniformly excellent In Our Time round-table discussions to JURN. However, I’m unsure if these can be accessed by listeners outside of the UK? Can readers of this blog post a comment, please, if they can listen to and download these programmes from outside the UK?

Sadly the BBC uses an undifferented/gibberish URL structure for its per-programme records. Its record page for its latest show on Tristram Shandy, for instance, is at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418phf But the index of In Our Time could be indexed in a basic way in JURN, via the URL for the A-Z listing pages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/*/all (where * is a wildcard)

JURN’s big expansion and ‘spring cleaning’ is complete

25 Friday Apr 2014

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Ok, I’m calling the recent big expansion and ‘spring cleaning’ of JURN complete. If anyone wishes to publicise this fact, perhaps to their newsletter readers or social networks or blogs, here’s some news blurb…

News, 25th April 2014: Jurn.org search-tool expands in scope

The open access search tool Jurn.org has just completed a significant expansion, undertaken throughout March/April 2014. Jurn.org had previously only indexed its core collection of over 4,000 arts and humanities ejournals, all open access or otherwise free. The new Jurn.org expansion has now added a large intake of business and law, science, biomedical and ecology related open access ejournals. Also new to Jurn.org are full-text theses at selected academic repositories, with an initial focus on including the bulk of the larger UK research repositories. Jurn.org has been built by hand, and highly curated, over a period of five years. Jurn is non profit and ad-free.

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