JURN URL-checked and updated

All the URLs in JURN have been fully checked for the continuing presence of their indexed articles on the Google Search results. This was done via the use of adapted software originally meant for checking SEO back-links. Link-rot has been cured (although it wasn’t actually too bad), and both the JURN Directory and JURN search are now as up-to-date as they can be.

Paperity, a rip of Springer.com open access articles

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.

Adobe SpyBook

Ooops. Not content with having its Acrobat PDF reader be an ongoing and huge security risk, it seems Adobe now actively spies on its ebook readers: “Adobe sends your reading logs back to Adobe — in plain text”

Adobe’s Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader — an application used by thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending libraries — actively logs and reports every document readers add to their local “library” along with what users do with those files. Even worse, the logs are transmitted over the Internet in the clear, allowing anyone who can monitor network traffic … to follow along over readers’ shoulders.

Working MOOCs

“Learning in an introductory physics MOOC”, an MIT paper…

“In summary, our MOOC produced significant and roughly equal learning for all of the cohorts differentiated along several axes”

So MOOCs work, at least for learning physics. Which is just as well. Since there are few other scalable ways to deliver advanced quality-assured and corruption-free education, for the brightest of the coming 2 billion people who are set to join the middle classes by 2030.

Conservation science not available to conservationists

“Most conservation science not available to conservationists” is a new Conservation blogazine article. It riffs on the recent academic paper “Achieving Open Access to Conservation Science” which examined how much…

scientific research published since the year 2000 in 20 conservation science journals is [now] publicly available

They asked how many of those papers had made their way into open repositories. Only 8.68%, it appears.

Deep article linking in PDF-linked search results

This is interesting. My search for Lovecraft / sort-by-date on JURN gave this result on the first page…

google-drill-down

It’s from the latest issue of The Fossil, the journal for the historians of the amateur journalism movement, which is served up as a single PDF with many articles in it. What’s interesting from an academic search perspective is how Google has successfully plucked an article from deep inside the PDF, and yet been able to shown it as a discreet link with the correct title. The opening article in this issue also references H.P. Lovecraft, but it’s tangential since that article is a wider one on the United Amateur Press Association. The main Lovecraft article in the issue is indeed David Goudsward’s “A Visit to Haverhill”, although the topic is not indicated in its title. So it seems Google now has the (new?) ability to pluck a relevant article title out of a longer scholarly PDF, and to present its title in search results as if it were a discreet article. A nice addition to JURN’s capabilities, if such results can be served consistently.