08 Wednesday Apr 2009
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Pattrice Jones has kindly created a variant of the popular Firefox search plugin “Mycroft” , so that the users of the Firefox web browser can search JURN via the Firefox toolbar. The plugin can be had from this page and then just scroll down the A-Z list to “JURN”. It seems to work fine. Thanks, Pattrice!
The icon next to the plugin says that it’s an “OpenSearch standard plugin” — which should mean that it’s also supported by Internet Explorer 7+.
02 Thursday Apr 2009
Posted in Official and think-tank reports
The UK’s Research Information Network / University College London has just published a new report, E-journals: their use, value and impact…
“A lot of money, time and energy is spent on producing journals but we still do not have any practical evidence about how they are actually used. Many surveys have been done in the past on how much researchers welcome online access to journals — but none have demonstrated how users actually behave and use e-journals in practice. Until now, there has been no joined-up, evidence-based study …”
[users] “forsake many of the online facilities provided on the publishers’ platform … they are much more likely to enter via gateway sites [ such as Google ] … Users are by-passing carefully-crafted discovery systems [available from libraries] … ”
[any on-site journal-specific] “…advanced search function is used rarely, and hardly at all by users in the most highly-rated research institutions.”
“Per capita expenditure and use of e-journals is strongly and positively correlated with papers published, numbers of PhD awards, and research grants and contracts income.”
30 Monday Mar 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
The Royal Tropical Institute (Netherlands) has blogged JURN.
17 Tuesday Mar 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
The latest Internet Scout Report (Vol 15, No.10) mentions and links to JURN. Although the Scout Report entry is somewhat misleading. It talks of JURN as indexing “humanities and social sciences articles” — rather than arts and humanities, with some some minor coverage of social sciences journals (usually because the latter have articles relevant to the arts and/or humanities).
16 Monday Mar 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
Marcus P. Zillman and The Humanities Librarian linked to JURN today.
13 Friday Mar 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
Israel’s Tel Aviv University library has blogged JURN.
27 Friday Feb 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
The March 09 Internet Resources Newsletter blogs and links to JURN. JURN is even highlighted as one of two outstanding new websites…
“There seems to be a number of good websites listed in this month’s Internet Resources Newsletter, making any choice for the ‘Nice Web Site’ difficult, however, I’ve chosen two search engines…”
26 Thursday Feb 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
Maritime Compass blogs about JURN…
“Focusing on the arts and humanities, many articles on preservation and history are included. It’s a great search engine, returning highly relevant results. I searched very broad terms, such as ‘sea’ and retrieved fascinating articles, both popular and scholarly. Specific searches, such as vessel names, also retrieved wonderful hits.”
24 Tuesday Feb 2009
Posted in JURN metrics
Jurn.org is now hitting No.7 on a straight Google search for:—
ejournals arts humanities
And No.12 for a straight Google search for:—
ejournals humanities
And No.17 for a straight Google search for:—
ejournals arts
23 Monday Feb 2009
Posted in JURN blogged
JURN has been blogged by the French organisation TGE-Adonis, part of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.