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Three new journals

05 Wednesday Jan 2011

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Three ejournals newly added to the JURN index:—

Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, The (1988-2010. Occasional historical/religious articles, e.g. “Our Shamanistic Past: The Korean Government, Shamans and Shamanism”; “A Survey of Confucius Studies in China Today”, etc)

Korea Studies Review.

Korea Journal (Test PDFs were available from the archives, but these arrived via javascript without the .pdf file extension. The same problem exists for PDFs found via Google at: site:http://www.ekoreajournal.net/upload/pdf/  Simply add a .pdf to the downloaded file-name)

Six new titles added

05 Wednesday Jan 2011

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Six new ejournals added to the JURN index:—

Mutatis Mutandis (Latin American translation journal. Has some English articles)

Ikala : revista de lenguaje y cultura (Has regular English articles)

Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (First issue due April 2011)

Independent Review : a journal of political economy, The (Edited by a historian, it has many articles and book reviews on historical topics relating to the economy and policy. Also indexing the Working Papers)

Social and Cultural Sciences Journal (Kaname Osamu School, Chiba University, Japan. Has some English articles)

Historical Social Research Transition (HSR-Transition. Full-text available for recent issues)

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Papers of the Comparative Research Workshop, Yale University.

The Interdisciplinary Environmental History : Natural Environment and Societal Behaviour in Central Europe monograph series, published by Goettingen University.

Greatly improved coverage of Spanish-language ejournals in the small states of Central America.

Seven new titles added

31 Friday Dec 2010

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New additions to the JURN index today:—

Jerusalem Quarterly

Quidditas : Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

RAG, The (quarterly of the Roman Archaeology Group at UWA)

Virtual Archaeology Review

Aegis Humanities Journal (Otterbein University Humanities Journal)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (There doesn’t appear to be an index page)

Conversations on the Liberal Arts

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Feature articles of SAFE : Saving Antiquities for Everyone

Proceedings of the conference ‘Pecus : man and animal in antiquity’

Second half of the article-level checking done.

31 Friday Dec 2010

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My software-assisted checking of JURN’s article-level index is now complete.

The process involved determining if each and every URL in the JURN index was still being “seen” and indexed by Google. In this second and final check, another 180 or so journals have had their URL re-found and corrected. I also adjusted the relevant Directory URL, when that was found to have changed. Another 20 dead or deleted journals have been removed. All this means that every URL in JURN’s main index is currently being indexed by Google.

I then did a quick Linkbot-based re-check of the resulting latest version of the JURN Directory, looking for and correcting any “404 not found” results.

I think I’ve now developed a fairly robust “pincer movement” method that can annually curtail the inevitable link-rot:— i) the article-level URL-checking; and ii) spam-word searches in JURN; and iii) the checks on the English-language Directory for “404” / redirected home-pages.

Three new titles

31 Friday Dec 2010

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Three new ejournal additions to JURN, found during the big link-checking:—

Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies (Ancient Roman Mithraism)

Classics@ : an online journal (journal of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard. Added to the JURN Directory, but articles can’t be indexed by JURN — they have one of the most hideous URL structures I’ve ever seen, and on top of that there also seems to be per-session URL-shaping to prevent linking to individual pages. It’s Classics, guys — web traffic isn’t likely to be that heavy…)

APS Proceedings Online (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society)

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NordLit (Nordic literature. Formerly listed at a duplicate site that has issues to #22. This new site has issues to #25. Indexing at both sites).

Found an additional way to auto-check JURN

28 Tuesday Dec 2010

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I’m pleased to say that I’ve found a robust way to auto-check if Google is still “seeing” content at the article-level URLs indexed by JURN. It’s a software based solution, and is basically ‘dark side’ SEO software that I’ve turned to the good side. It auto-prepends the site: modifier to each of the URLs contained in the JURN index, and then checks if those URLs are actually indexed by Google. It then logs any wholly un-indexed URLs. It just chugs away in the background and is very slow — so as not to trigger flood-control blocking measures. But it’s certainly better than doing the checking by hand.

If you have such a list you want to check, it’s probably best to remove or cut back any URLs containing multiple wildcards such as /*/*/. Google has also been known to choke on URLs containing question-marks (it can see them as evidence of someone trying a scripting exploit on Google), although I don’t see this happening during the checking. But if you’re doing the checking in blocks of 200, it’s not difficult to correct those sort of URLs first.