Another five titles added today

14 Saturday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today. JURN is now indexing more than 3,400 titles:—

World Picture

   (Hat-tip for the above: Film Studies for Free)

Glyphs : newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (2000-2007)

Ideas : magazine of the National Humanities Center (1996-2002)

Mediations : journal of the Marxist literary group

Caxtonian : journal of the Caxton Club, The (“a journal of literature, the humanities, and books” with a special focus on fine books and printing)

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Books of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation (History of exploration. All are freely available as PDFs)

Papers in the Swedish Archive for Rock Art Research

550 free sample book chapters in PDF form, from the book list of The University of North Carolina Press (TOCs excluded from JURN)

The ebook Essays on Hormuz (2006) by Peter B Rowland. (History of the straits of Hormuz).

Amended: the Museological Review – JURN is now able to index the full articles.

Five new titles added

11 Wednesday Nov 2009

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Five new titles added to the JURN site-index today:—

GDR Bulletin (“a journal on East German literature and culture published by the Washington University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures from 1975 to 1999”)

Art Scene Iowa

Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review

Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (Has articles on online advertising, online games, etc. Despite at first appearing to offer only TOCs, scroll right down the page to find an “author A-Z” giving access to full papers)

SIGKDD Explorations (Journal of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) (Rather technical, but it might to be of interest to specialist librarians, those in the digital humanities, and those in the mass-market creative industries)

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11 Wednesday Nov 2009

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Apologies that the interior pages of the JURN blog are not loading. WordPress loads my dashboard and and the front page, but for some reason the interior pages never load. The problem started about 14 hours ago. Presumably wordpress.com will eventually fix the problem, which seems to be because one of their subsidiary servers is not responding.

All my other wordpress.com hosted blogs have the same problem. Checking other random wordpress.com blogs across the web shows they also have the same problem.

(Solved it: see comments on this post)

Four more titles added today

10 Tuesday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society (1931-1967)

Yemen Update On-line

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Trismegistos Online Publications (TOP) (papyrological and epigraphical resources, Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800)

PIA : Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (Issues from 1990, 1993, 1994 are all free online)

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Proceedings of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (1991-2007)

And another four ejournals added today

09 Monday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Skyllis : Journal for Underwater Archaeology (1998-2004)

Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin (1995-2008)

Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online (2003-2009) (Also has English articles)

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Journal of The British Society for the History of Radiology (formerly the Journal of the Radiology History & Heritage Charitable Trust)

Another four titles added today

09 Monday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Journal of Conflict Studies (1999-2003) (Formerly Conflict Quarterly, 1980-1994 – also indexed. Has many articles of interest to historians)

Demographic Research (1999-2009) (Has many articles of interest to historians)

ACLS Occasional Studies series

Latin American Studies newsletter, and Working Papers series (University of Maryland. Newsletter has book reviews)

Open the MegaZine

09 Monday Nov 2009

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MegaZine v3, an open-source page-flip engine for presenting sophisticated paper-like online magazines and books. Try the demo, which shows how multimedia elements can be easily incorporated into pages — there seems to be a lot of scope for “electronic artists’ books” here, made by those who can use Photoshop but not Flash or Director.

megazine

“MegaZine3 is completely written in ActionScript 3 [and you just edit an XML file] … MegaZine3 comes with integrated support for SWFAddress, a JavaScript library allowing a user to deep-link Flash movies.”

The only worry I’d have would be how well search-engines would index the text of articles. It’s somewhat worrying, for instance, that I can’t copy and paste text from the demo. Nor can I search within the text. I guess a publisher would want to put an additional small button on the foot of the web page, leading to a plain version of the text used.

Another ten titles added

08 Sunday Nov 2009

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Diagonal : Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music

CILLA Papers on Latin American Indigenous Languages

SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics

SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation

SKASE Journal of Literary Studies

Latin American Research Review (Covers a variety of topics – the latest issue is a film studies / cultural studies special issue)

Cardinal Perspectives (interdisciplinary journal of Wheeling Jesuit University)

Canadian Catholic Historical Association Study Sessions (1966-1984)

Canadian Catholic Historical Association Historical Studies journal (1984-2006)

Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report (1933-1965)

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Fixed broken indexing-URL for the Marburg Journal of Religion ( was http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/ -is now- http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/pdfs/ )