More trouble at ‘t journals

23 Monday Nov 2009

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Oh dear. Following recent scandals at academic journals (Elsevier, Bentham, etc), now there’s more trouble at ‘t journals…

“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

and…

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”

Directory and site-index repaired

23 Monday Nov 2009

Posted by in My general observations, New titles added to JURN

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I’ve auto-checked all links in the Directory, and have repaired all 404s (“not found”s). All 302s (“redirect”s) were also scrutinised and any link-breaking URL-changes were fixed, with the new URLs then being used to fix linkrot in the JURN site-index. Three dead journals have been deleted. About 60 journals have been fixed in total. About 25 “connect failures” / timeouts have been left alone for now.

Google will no doubt take a month or so to catch up with the new locations of some of the articles indexed — but the Google ‘Caffeine’ update is coming after Christmas, so that should probably do the trick.

Broken links, un-broken

22 Sunday Nov 2009

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Hopefully they’ll make this software available to all…

“Broken links will soon be a thing of the past for UK government websites, as The National Archives launches its unique Web Continuity project. The first of its kind anywhere in the world, the project has already enabled millions of people using government websites to find information which would previously have been lost through broken web links. The service is now leading to more than six million redirected hits a month. Six government departments have already installed the software, but the Web Continuity project is due to be formally launched at the House of Lords on 2 December 2009″ […] The software enables users who click on a link that is no longer live to be taken automatically to where the information they need is held in The National Archives’ UK Government Web Archive. The web archive regularly captures and preserves 1,500 government websites for posterity.”

      [ Hat-tip: Peter Scott ]

Another six titles added

22 Sunday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Sydney Studies in English (1975-current)

Maine Law & Innovation Journal (Several articles in the first issue on intellectual property – music, superheroes – as well as one on traditional cultural expressions and copyright)

Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (1998-2009. Many articles of interest to historians. Also book reviews)

Education as an Art (Steiner creative education methods)

Waldorf Journal Project (Steiner creative education methods)

Hog River Journal (Connecticut history. Free sample articles only)

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Reviews and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas (A superbly comprehensive bibliographic publication)

Six more titles added

22 Sunday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies

European Children’s Film Association Journal

World War Two Studies Association Newsletters (1968-2007)

Zoo (Sumptuously illustrated magazine on French comics. Sadly it’s almost wholly in French)

Escapist, The (Videogames criticism and culture. Print copies, 2005-2007. Later became escapistmagazine.com)

Computer Gaming World (1981-2002)

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Fixed: Journal of Film Preservation (new URL)