Ingenta’s new open access journals portal

31 Monday Oct 2016

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Ingenta now has a new dedicated portal for all its open access journals, although the web-master seems to have overlooked the Underwater Technology title. There’s an annoying A-Z browse discovery option, which requires over 120 clicks to fully explore. But I clicked all the links, and discovered that the new portal holds several recently-vanished ‘404 not found’ open access journals. Evidently Ingenta has recently purchased or otherwise wrangled these OA titles for its new portal. There’s no RSS feed for tracking newly-added journal titles, but I made a basic one.

At first I thought that the new portal had not yet been indexed by Google or any other major search-engine. But I find that there’s actually a robots.txt file to prevent open indexing of Ingenta Open Home. Here’s Ingenta Open’s robot.txt file…

# Please do not index this site!!

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

It seems a pity for someone to park their open journal on Ingenta Open, if it’s not then going to be open to discovery by Google Search users. Though I do find that currently all of Ingenta Open’s current humanities and eco titles are exposed to Google Search elsewhere and in other ways. Which makes them indexable in JURN. Various UCL journals that have recently gone ‘404’ have thus been added to JURN again, and some additional journals have also been added…

London Journal of Canadian Studies

Journal of Bentham Studies

Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

Charrette : journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE)

Internationale Neerlandistiek (Dutch and Afrikaans linguistics)

Architecture___media_politics_society

Taal en Tongval : Language Variation in the Low Countries

Jewish Historical Studies : Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England

NECSUS : European Journal of Media Studies

Mycology

Journal of Plant Interactions

IMA Fungus

Blumea : Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants

Persoonia : Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi

Geo-spatial Information Science

OAFindr test

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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My thanks to Klaus Graf. For a German-language blog post complaining about the lack of interest in making a good OA search engine, he has obtained and shown a screenshot of two results from OAFindr (by 1science aka One Science) for mongolian folk song. These keywords were used for my December 2015 group-test of OA search engines.

Neither of the two OAFindr results is in JURN, because they both come from a title published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education, a publisher which has long been on Beall’s List.

oafindr_search_mongolian_folk_song

Update, Nov 2017: OAFindr is now called 1Findr.

How to get RSS from the newly locked-down www.scoop.it service

26 Wednesday Oct 2016

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The owners of www.scoop.it have trapped all their free users. The service no longer offers any RSS feed, from mid August 2016. I’ve only just noticed, as I use RSS to bring posts into a blog and home page. Now you have to use their own “Integration” embedding, use of which requires a paid upgrade to a Business Account. Nor is there now any option to export or backup your Scoop.it blog, for which you would now need to use a third-party website ripper like HTTrack.

How to get around this bastardy…

Option 1. Really easy.

Go to the free Fivefilters Feed Creator, to solve the RSS part of the problem.

h2

Add the root URL of your blog at Scoop.it. For instance, http://www.scoop.it/t/my-scoop-it-blog/ Below it in “look for links” type h2 which is the headline tag where Scoop.it puts its post titles within the Web page. Click Preview.

This will give you a basic free 10-item scraped post-listing as a viable RSS feed, suitable for embedding in the sidebar widget of a blog or on a home page. You can also use this to replace any defunct Scoop.it feeds in your RSS Feedreader.

For a small fee you can also buy the Fivefilters script and host it on your own server.

Option 2. Incredibly complicated.

Use Feed43, to solve the RSS part of the problem. This is similar to Fivefilters and also free, but the setup definitely needs an experienced coder to get the feed working. I’m guessing that there are more advanced options than Fivefilters under the hood, though?

Option 3. Nuke Scoop.it, and go to WordPress instead.

Use a free third-party website ripper like HTTrack to backup your Scoop.it, open a WordPress.com account and in a departing post on your Scoop.it tell your subscribers that you are now blogging elsewhere. Possibly there are WordPress templates out there, and/or browser add-ons, that make WordPress work like Scoop.it?

Digital Index of Middle English Verse

24 Monday Oct 2016

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Digital Index of Middle English Verse. A fine free resource and the record pages are extensive, but regrettably it has a search interface that only a librarian could love. There’s no dedicated keyword search, and only fairly limited topic tagging. If you want all poems mentioning a “star” but not Jesus, for instance, you have to do a Google site: search.

Opening lines of a prayer to the Morning Star and against the plague, England c. 15th century (modern English):

O heavenly star, most comfortable of light,
Which, with your ghostly gracious influence,
Has clarified and put to flight
All misty weathers perilous for pestilence.

Added to JURN

20 Thursday Oct 2016

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Annual Reports on Archaeology, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

Cultural Resource Series, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Various U.S. states.

National Landscape Conservation System Manuals, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

Technical Notes series, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Also Technical Bulletins & References series 1985-2014 (Idaho only).

Our Public Lands 1951-1971, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. (Added to OpenEco directory only)

Resource Inventory Notes and Resources Evaluation Newsletter series, 1975-1981, Yale School of Forestry.