04 Wednesday Jun 2014
GeoDeepDive is software that helps…
geo-scientists extract data that is buried in the text, tables, and figures of journal articles and web sites […] As of today, GeoDeepDive has processed over 36K research papers and 134K web pages
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
FoRESEE: Future Search Engines 2014, a one day workshop in Germany, 22nd September 2014.
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
David Prosser at Jisc blogs on the need for action on discoverability…
… 40% of researchers kicked off their project with a trawl through the Internet for material, while only 2% preferred to make a visit to a physical library space. [yet] nearly half of all items within digitised collections are not discoverable via major search engines by their name or title [and, even worse] digitised collections become harder and harder to find over time, for a variety of complex reasons.
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in JURN metrics, Spotted in the news
PLOS ONE: “The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web”
“Our estimates show that at least 114 million English-language scholarly documents are accessible on the web, of which Google Scholar has nearly 100 million. Of these, we estimate that at least 27 million (24%) are freely available since they do not require a subscription or payment of any kind.”
I’d say that 27m is probably a large underestimate, given that the two engines used for the study (Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search) are proven to be poor at indexing open repositories and open access journals. Given a few hours of work I could probably winkle out from JURN a list of 100 “big” URLs, which together would put JURN at 25m (primarily in English) — before even starting to tally all the other URLs.
29 Thursday May 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
Open source, open access comics? The great bard of Northampton is on the job, with a little help from NESTA’s Digital R&D Fund…
” Alan Moore said in a statement: … we are assembling teams of the most cutting-edge creators in the industry and then allowing them input into the technical processes in order to create a new capacity for telling comic book stories. It will then be made freely available to all of the exciting emergent talent that is no doubt out there, just waiting to be given access to the technical toolkit that will enable them to create the comics of the future.”
Picture: Alan Moore, drawn by Raphael Salimena.
29 Thursday May 2014
Posted in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news
Lost the RSS button in your Firefox address/URL bar? The Firefox 32 upgrade lost it for me. RSS Icon in URL bar 1.5 is the current addon solution. It works fine in passing through feeds to my desktop FeedDemon reader.
27 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in JURN's Google watch, Spotted in the news
27 Tuesday May 2014
A Thomson ISI / Web of Science study is reported in Nature, dated 26th May 2014, as “Do Open Access journals have impact?”. They concluded that…
“Open Access journals [a selection of 190 titles, “core scientific publications”] can have similar impact to other journals, and prospective authors should not fear publishing in these journals merely because of their access model.”
25 Sunday May 2014
Posted in Spotted in the news
RSS feed search, by keyword. Tip: paste in the URL, then cut it back to just the main word in the URL. It will usually find the RSS. Or just use site:yoursite.com and it will find all feeds from that site. Incredibly useful.
24 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Ooops!, Spotted in the news
Why having the data can sometimes be handy: the Financial Times has fisked the Piketty data on Europe…
“The FT [Financial Times] found mistakes and unexplained entries in his spreadsheets, similar to those which last year undermined the work on public debt and growth of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. … For example, once the FT cleaned up and simplified the data, the European numbers do not show any tendency towards rising wealth inequality after 1970. An independent specialist in measuring inequality shared the FT’s concerns.” – Financial Times.