22 Sunday Nov 2009
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Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion
Canadian Air Force Journal, The (Has articles of interest to historians, e.g.: ‘The Twilight of the Experten – the Historical Validity of Luftwaffe Aces Success in the Second World War’)
Explorations : An E-Journal of Narrative Practice (Relevant to the medical humanities)
e|c : online journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Semiotics (Also indexing the monographs series, one of which is wholly in English)
21 Saturday Nov 2009
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Acta Historica Tallinnensia (Some English articles)
Estonian Journal of Archaeology
Linguistica Uralica (On the languages of the Urals)
Nebula : A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
Pakn Treger (Articles on Yiddish Literature. PDFs require a right-click and “save as…” to successfully launch)
Jewish Reader, The (Review essays on Jewish Literature)
Kiez21 : growing magazine for culture, theory and journalism (Ceased growing in 2006)
Vance Phile, The (1993-1996. The fiction of Jack Vance)
21 Saturday Nov 2009
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Now that’s what I call a retro journal. The Journal of Popular Noise publishes each issue as three 7″ 45rpm vinyl E.P.s…
A little hard to access, perhaps… but better than this scary vision of a “journal for twits”.
21 Saturday Nov 2009
Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice (PDF link), a new report by SPARC Consulting Group for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition in the USA. Very clear and comprehensive, it looks set to become a standard reference point on the topic.
20 Friday Nov 2009
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English Harpsichord Magazine, The
Dorot : McGill Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Studies
Perspectivas del Mundo da la Comunicacion
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Scholarly articles of the J. Richard Steffy ShipLab (nautical archaeology and iconography).
Scholarly articles library of the martinamisweb.com website. (Works of Martin Amis)
Essays library of the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts.
Proceedings of Salsa : symposium about language and society.
19 Thursday Nov 2009
4 Principles for E-book Discovery & Visibility, notes from a recent U.S. talk by Anh Bui (of HighWire Press)…
“Users understand book and journal content is different, but that line is blurring; take advantage of the traffic already flowing to journal content. Librarians talk about purchasing continuations or not-continuations; no longer referring to journals and books.”
19 Thursday Nov 2009
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Churchman (1989 – 2005)
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Free PDF book chapters from publisher Lyceum Books (History books only)
18 Wednesday Nov 2009
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Added to the JURN site-index today:—
South Asia Archive and Library Group newsletter (British Library. Has substantial articles. Three issues, then discontinued)
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Around 250 free PDF sample chapters from books published by humanities and social sciences publisher Pickering Chatto, with JURN excluding the indexes. Some book-list flyers creep through, but that’s unavoidable due to file-naming.
18 Wednesday Nov 2009
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Michael Krakovskiy blogs some excellent advice today…
“Do not implement search yourself. Your CMS [content management system] sucks at search, and so do you. I see this again and again and again. Everyone is implementing search on large websites instead of using Google. Developers are afraid of looking unprofessional. Managers are answering yes to the question “do you want advanced/faceted search” (the correct answer is no – users don’t like it and don’t use it). As a result a lot of resources (both server and developer) go into implementing something that Google is awesome at.”
Excellent advice for most small budget-conscious firms. But Google CSE’s don’t always use the full Google database for searches. Some CSE user searches will only draw results from an undefined “sub-set” of the main Google index. Thus, for mission-critical search in large firms, a custom search-engine (Lucene, Sphinx, etc, rather than a CMS) is still the sensible option, unless Google can guarantee that every word in a file will be indexed and that searches will draw on all records.
17 Tuesday Nov 2009
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Added to the JURN site-index today:—
RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
British Academy Review (Able to index TOCs only)
Cadernos de Pos-Graduacao em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (2001-2008. “Graduate Journal in Architecture and Urbanism”. Has some articles in English)
Manx Notes : Folkways & Language (1993-1994, 2004-2008)
James Jones Journal (Journal of the James Jones Literary Society)
Minas Tirith Evening-Star : Journal of the American Tolkien Society (Two free issues)
Occasional Papers of the Townsend Center for the Humanities (also indexing the Article Archive)