04 Sunday Oct 2009
I was on holiday at the time, so I couldn’t attend (even though it’s on my doorstep) — but Craig Bellamy has a detailed report on the Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web workshop in Birmingham, England, on 24th September 2009.
04 Sunday Oct 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index today:—
Radical Philosophy (just indexing the free online content — interviews, commentary, conference reports).
02 Friday Oct 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Added to the JURN site-index (hat-tip: AWOL blog):
29 Tuesday Sep 2009
A new free ebook from Media Commons Press: Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, presented in an intuitive HTML format. The author is inviting readers to help her revise and polish the final version of the book.
27 Sunday Sep 2009
Posted in Official and think-tank reports
A new Andrew W. Mellon Foundation report by Mary Waltham, The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations (2009).
06 Sunday Sep 2009
Posted in Spotted in the news
Research & Markets has just released a commercial market report, The Future of the Academic Journal.
28 Friday Aug 2009
Posted in Spotted in the news
AWOL blog has just posted two Word documents containing A check list of periodicals for classical studies and related disciplines, compiled by Yang Wang of Princeton University Library, in 2008.
AWOL also has news of a free E-Journals and Digitized Paper Periodicals (Egyptology) list, also from 2008.
28 Friday Aug 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
Researching Korean Culture adds JURN to the sidebar. Classics blog Arxaiognosia has added a JURN sidebar search-box. Medieval Studies blog Ficta Eloquentia recommends JURN. The Fondren Library at Rice University adds JURN to its online resources list for anthropology. JURN linked by Ohio Universities InfoTree. Fanshawe College lists JURN in their student guide to online resources — although claims that JURN only indexes 13 magazines(!)
28 Friday Aug 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
All the JURN Directory links have been checked for viability, and re-found and repaired if needed. I’ve adjusted the JURN site-index links for all re-found journal websites.
Deleted titles (cannot be found):—
Culna : magazine of the National Museum, Bloemfontein
Systatis
Ex Nihilo
Kurdica: Online Magazine of Kurdish Language and Studies
European Internal Arts Journal
Artefact (Hungarian interactive arts journal)
Transformations : Liberal Arts in the Digital Age
Gaines Junction
Limen : Journal for … Liminal Phenomena
Potomac : A Journal of Poetry & Politics
28 Friday Aug 2009
Posted in My general observations
I made some small tweaks to the colours, the font size and the typeface on JURN’s front page. If you’re not a designer you probably won’t notice the difference, but it should be a little easier on the eye now.