27 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
A new blog article on Visualizing Citation Cartels, using the data from an existing case…
“what is uniformly odd about these papers is that they cite their dataset as if each datapoint (paper) required a reference.”
24 Saturday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society (1982-87)
Alkan Society Bulletins (musicology, Valentin Alkan)
Reflections (Yale Divinity School)
22 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in Spotted in the news
Collaborative Librarianship has a quick survey article “Directory of Open Access Journals: A Bibliometric Study”, looking at the coverage of library and information science journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)…
“It is interesting that no Russian language or languages used in the eastern regions of the former Soviet countries are represented in DOAJ.”
I did a quick DOAJ check. Subject Category: ‘Bibliography. Library science. Information resources’, then filtered by country of publication. The paper’s claim seems to be correct…
Switching to ‘Journal Language: Russian’ has the same result. Perhaps it’s just that there are no Russia-based library journals publishing in open access?
20 Tuesday Sep 2016
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The Museum of Modern Art | MoMA now has a full online catalogue of its exhibitions, from 1929 onwards.
17 Saturday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
ASMOSIA Newsletter Archive (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones In Antiquity)
Over 1,000 introductory articles at Muslim Heritage : discover the golden age of Muslim civilisation. Google search: site:http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/
15 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in My general observations
I’m fairly good as an online picture researcher, but lately… ugh. Open Web picture research on certain historical topics is rapidly becoming nearly impossible, because search results get saturated by the websites of swivel-eyed loons and vast commercial robo-stores. I’d suggest we need some kind of Web browser filter to rid search results of “conspiracy theory crazies” and “commercial stores”, at least. Even a filter that just flags ‘known Photoshop fakes’ would be great, perhaps via some kind of pattern recognition.
13 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in New titles added to JURN
I’m adding a posting here, with main tables-of-contents, so that the article titles can be indexed on JURN and the journal can be linked from the JURN Directory…
Lovecraft Studies journal, now with the 1980s issues on Archive.org:
H.P. Lovecraft: Consummate Prose Stylist.
On the Natures of Nug and Yeb.
The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part I), by S.T. Joshi.
Notes on the Prose Realism of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part II), by S.T. Joshi.
The Revision Mythos.
The Development of Lovecraftian Studies, 1971–1982 (Part III), by S.T. Joshi.
Dagon in Puritan Massachusetts.
Instructions in Case of Decease, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft’s Concept of “Background”.
Who Needs the “Cthulhu Mythos”?
In Search of Arkham Country.
Correspondence between R.H. Barlow and Wilson Shepherd of Oakman, Alabama—Sept.–Nov. 1932, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft and Chiasmus, Chiasmus and Lovecraft.
Behind the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930.
Mythos Names and How to Say Them, by Robert M. Price.
On the Emergence of “Cthulhu”.
Randolph Carter: An Anti-Hero’s Quest (Part 1).
Two Biblical Curiosities in Lovecraft.
Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram.
A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library (Part 1), by S.T. Joshi.
Did Lovecraft Revise “The Forbidden Room”?
Randolph Carter: An Anti-Hero’s Quest (Part 2).
A Guide to the Lovecraft Fiction Manuscripts at the John Hay Library (Part 2), by S.T. Joshi.
The Hands of H.P. Lovecraft.
Facts in the Case of “The Disinterment”.
Notes on Lovecraft’s “The Bells”: A Carillon.
Lovecraft and James Joyce.
Lists and Notes by H.P. Lovecraft: Basic Books for a Weird Library, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Robert E. Howard and the Cthulhu Mythos.
Swan Songs: Lovecraft and Yeats.
“Retrograde Anticipation”: Primitivism and Occultism in the French Response to Lovecraft 1953–1957.
The Subversion of Sense in “The Colour out of Space”.
H.P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Movie.
A Plea for Lovecraft, by W. Paul Cook.
Lovecraft and Romanticism.
The Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston: Lovecraft’s Last Dilettante.
“The Green Meadow” and “The Willows”: Lovecraft, Blackwood, and a Peculiar Coincidence.
Who Was the Real Charles Dexter Ward?
Biographical Writing on H.P. Lovecraft: A Review of the Literature.
The Influence of Two Dunsany Plays.
The “Cthulhu Mythos”: Between Horror and Science Fiction.
In Search of Arkham Country Revisited, by Will Murray.
Infratextual Structures in Poe, Bierce, and Lovecraft.
Lovecraft’s Ethical Philosophy, by S.T. Joshi.
The Extinction of Mankind in the Prose Poem “Memory”.
On Lovecraft’s “Nemesis”.
Also note that Archive.org has some issues of the Crypt of Cthulhu fanzine from the 1980s, which mixed new fiction with scholarly articles on H.P. Lovecraft and his circle:
Lovecraft’s Weird Families. (#22)
Prehuman Language in Lovecraft. (#33)
“The Hound” – a dead dog? (#38)
The Sources for “From Beyond” by S.T. Joshi. (#38)
Exploring “The Temple”. (#38)
HPL’s Style. (#38)
“The Blind Idiot God: Milton Echoes in the Cthulhu Mythos”. (#49)
“The Pool” – Recommendations for Revision, by H.P. Lovecraft. (#49)
Aporia and Paradox in “The Outsider”. (#49)
Lovecraft as a character in Lovecraftian fiction. (#52)
On “The Book”. (#53)
On “Azathoth”. (#53)
On “The Descendant”. (#53)
“The Thing in the Moonlight,” A Hoax Revealed. (#53)
Did Lovecraft Have Syphilis? (#53)
Who the Hell was Winfield Scott Phillips? (#53)
Iranon and Kuranes: An lntertextual Gloss. (#53)
08 Thursday Sep 2016
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Shangri La Working Papers in Islamic Art
The Babylonian and Oriental Record (Vols. 1-5) with Vols. 6-8 on Hathi, ‘possibly, maybe’ if you can use a VPN to bypass region-blocking.
02 Friday Sep 2016
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Monumental Brass Society Bulletin
Exeter Register (Exeter College Association, Oxford. Annual with substantial obituaries and historical articles.)
31 Wednesday Aug 2016
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British Brick Society newsletter (archaeology and history of bricks, brick making). Not all PDFs appear to be viable, some terminating abruptly in mid-download.
Southern African Humanities (appears to be mostly archaeology, reconstruction of prehistoric ethnographies, linguistics)