04 Saturday Dec 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (500 titles publicly accessible, from the back-list of University of California Press. JURN is indexing in a way that excludes the landing pages for private titles, and also excludes the “buy this book” pages)
[ Hat-tip: AWOL ]
02 Thursday Dec 2010
Posted in Spotted in the news
How to cite a Kindle ebook?
01 Wednesday Dec 2010
Temporarily removed from JURN’s search index: Communications in Information Literacy, Abitare, Frog In a Well, MarcoEle — all infected with ‘online pharmacy’ spambots.
01 Wednesday Dec 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Four new ejournals added to the JURN index today:—
Journal of Eurasian Studies (pub. Gabor Balint de Szentkatolna Society, not to be confused with the journal of the same name from Elsevier)
International Journal of Korean Studies (On military matters and diplomacy, but has occasional articles on history)
Journal of Kyoto Seika University (Has occasional articles in English)
JIPITEC : Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
01 Wednesday Dec 2010
Posted in My general observations
One of the most visually pleasing academic landing pages I’ve ever seen: the Belgian research programme Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap (Comparative Science of Cultures).
30 Tuesday Nov 2010
It’s always been annoying that academic repositories jumble together paywall / no-access / open access material, and don’t allow users to search only for open access + full-text materials. With a very few honourable exceptions, it’s a ridiculous situation — and the so-called library professionals involved in the development of such ‘standards’ should be hanging their heads in shame. Bibliographic Wilderness agrees…
“Really, I’m deeply disappointed that this kind of thing — good metadata that will allow software to know if an item really is OA, and to get a link directly to the content as well as the landing page — doesn’t seem to be a concern of the repository communities. This has been a problem for YEARS, and if any of the various organizations involved in this stuff are even making any efforts to address it, I haven’t heard about it.”
30 Tuesday Nov 2010
JURN has ticked over another 100 new titles. Now indexing, at the article level, 3,707 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.
30 Tuesday Nov 2010
Posted in My general observations
Checked and repaired all URLs on the “A short guide to free academic search-engines and tools, for UK students in the arts and humanities” page.
28 Sunday Nov 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Four ejournals added to the JURN full-text index today:—
Asian Agri-History (History of agriculture in Asia. Some articles overlap with the history of religion)
History & Theory (Indexing 30 free sample PDF articles only)
Santa Fe Institute Bulletin (“The Santa Fe Institute is a private, independent, multidisciplinary research and education center founded in 1984.”)
Etudes Chinoises (‘Chinese Studies’ – some articles in English, but mostly in French)
27 Saturday Nov 2010
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added four new ejournals to the JURN index today:—
The New Republic (Book Reviews only)
Call and Response: the Scholarly Journal of the National Black Graduate Student Association (USA)