20 Thursday Jan 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
Renaissance : a monthly Islamic journal (In English. Islamic scholarship in the tradition of Hamiduddin Farahi and Mawlana Amin Ahsan Islahi)
[ Hat-tip: AMIR ]
19 Wednesday Jan 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN index:—
Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations (In English, significant number of historical articles in the issues inspected. Discontinued 2009.)
[ Hat-tip: AMIR ]
UPDATE: now paywalled.
19 Wednesday Jan 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2002-2011)
19 Wednesday Jan 2011
Posted in Open Access publishing, Spotted in the news
From the Media Commons Press, New School in New York City, the free Learning through Digital Media : essays on technology and pedagogy (2011)…
“This collection of essays is a project in preparation for Mobility Shifts, an international summit about the future of learning that will take place at the New School, October 10-16, 2011.”
19 Wednesday Jan 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2001-2010. In English. Published by Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea)
19 Wednesday Jan 2011
The Phase II report of the UK’s RIN study, just published: E-Journals: Their Use, Value and Impact, Final Report…
“Based on an analysis of log files from journal websites and data from libraries in ten [UK] universities and research institutions [in 2009]”
From the report…
“It is difficult, often impossible, to distinguish from log records alone between researcher and student use of e-journals. Moreover, there are no figures in the public domain regarding the levels of use of e-journals by students and researchers respectively, and it seems unlikely that any librarians or publishers know this with any confidence.”
However, the research also used other methods…
“No other study has subjected a UK research community to such intense scrutiny: logs, questionnaires, interviews, observation and statistical datasets were used to enrich and triangulate the findings presented in this report.”
Some interesting snippets relating to the humanities…
“Only a small minority (14%, mostly in the humanities) visit the library building to browse or to read hard copy journals.”
“Researchers now expect immediate access to the full text, and they are frustrated when they find that their university does not have the necessary subscription, or that they are asked for a password they do not have, or that they are asked to pay for a download. Over a third of our survey respondents reported such problems […] Historians […] seem to face the most problems with access,”
And relating to student use of ejournals…
“Student use of e-journals is clearly substantial, and this represents a powerful argument for sustained long-term spending on them. E-journals play a major role in supporting learning and teaching, as well as research.”
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in My general observations
I wonder if there’s a readership for an open journal on that which is “not yet studied in the humanities”? Short articles concisely outlining notable topics, topics not yet investigated by scholars? Just a thought.
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Three titles added to the JURN index:—
Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Shakespearean Authorship Studies
Behemoth : a journal of civilisation (Mostly statecraft and policy, but also has some historical articles, such as: “Of vague war and vague peace in Argentina’s desert, 1775–1880”; “The Idea of the State and the Wandering Jew”; “The Kingdom of God: Martin Buber’s Critique of Messianic Politics”; “Exile and Diaspora: Jewish Concepts of Dispersion”; “”Exile” as a Theologico-Political Principle in Leo Strauss’s Jewish Thought”; and “Is “Warmth” a Mode of Social Behaviour? Considerations on a Cultural History of the Left-Alternative Milieu from the Late Sixties to the Mid Eighties”)
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The Arts & Media special issue of Open Source Business Resource journal.
16 Sunday Jan 2011
Posted in New titles added to JURN
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Tempo e Argumento (One English article so far, possibly more in the future. Postgrad history journal from the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Not yet indexed by the usual Spanish-language open journal indexing services)
15 Saturday Jan 2011
Posted in Spotted in the news
Digital Learners in Higher Education: Generation is Not the Issue (September 2010, preprint)…
“a comprehensive review of the research and popular literature on the topic and an empirical study at one postsecondary institution in Canada suggest there are no meaningful generational differences in how learners say they use ICTs or their perceived behavioural characteristics. The study also concluded that the post-secondary students at the institution in question use a limited set of information and communication technologies”
“our review of the popular and academic literature shows that there is no empirical support for the most prevalent claims in […] the impact of this use on how this generation accesses and uses information, how they interact socially and how they learn; and the unique behavioural characteristics and learning styles of this generation.”