15 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
Oral History Forum (1976-2011. Online journal of the Canadian Oral History Association)
McGill Journal of Middle East Studies (2005-2008. Journal of the McGill undergraduate Middle East Studies Students’ Association)
[ Hat-tips: AMIR / La Criee ]
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index today:—
Asian Art : the on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia (Indexing articles only)
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in Academic search, Spotted in the news
A interesting new discovery, courtesy of AWOL. Sisyphos is an excellent full-text search-engine that indexes online resources in Egyptology / Ancient Near Eastern Studies / Classical Archaeology. The index encompasses a great many personal and institutional websites, online ebooks, and over 100 ejournals (current and scanned from the archives).
13 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
International Association for Coptic Studies Newsletter (1977-2009)
Storico Messinese (1975-2006, with gaps. The publication of the National History Society of Messina, an Italian journal of scholarly articles on “political and economic to cultural, religious, artistic” topics relating to the city of Messina in Sicily, Italy)
[ Hat-tip for Coptic Studies Newsletter, AWOL ]
11 Friday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Three ejournals newly added to the JURN index:—
TD : The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
10 Thursday Mar 2011
A neat new service, Full-text RSS Feed Builder…
“Love the ease of RSS, but hate when feeds don’t display the whole article, forcing you to click through just to read it?
Regain control by entering the URL of a feed below and clicking the submit button to receive a full-text feed URL you can use anywhere.”
Ah, now if only open arts and humanities ejournals actually had any RSS feeds… but unfortunately most don’t.
10 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in Economics of Open Access, Spotted in the news
The Persee journals open archiving service, for French humanities / social studies / geography journals, has reportedly been abruptly told that its funding is to be withdrawn by its hosting university Lyon 2, within months and without any consultation…
“Sans concertation préalable (personnels et direction de PERSÉE non sollicités, comité de suivi de PERSÉE, ministère de tutelle, organes institutionnels de l’Université (CTP, CS, CA) non avertis), la direction de Lyon 2 a décidé le 7 février 2011 de mettre fin à la convention-cadre soutenant l’existence du programme. Cette décision prend effet le 10 mai 2011.
L’ensemble des personnels du programme PERSÉE ne comprend pas la précipitation de la direction de Lyon 2. Aucune information n’a précédé cette décision. Aucune discussion n’est proposée par la direction de l’université. Aucune solution ne garantit la continuité des activités du programme et la préservation de l’équipe PERSÉE en raison du trop court calendrier imposé par Lyon 2.
Nous ne savons pas ce qu’il adviendra de PERSÉE au-delà du 10 mai 2011.”
The service hosts around 350,000 open journal articles.
08 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
New sections added to the JURN Directory:—
* History: crime and law
* Cross/inter-disciplinary : polar regions
06 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
Tropis (nautical archaeology and ancient nautical history)
06 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN