So, how did JURN do in 2014? A quick summary:<\/p>\n
* Journals added (in English): I count about 380 linked via the blog. Not counting the Paperity range of titles, or the big influx of ecology related journals.<\/p>\n
* Journals added (non-English): I don’t keep count of these via the blog. But I’d guestimate over 100, all titles in the arts and humanities.<\/p>\n
* There will have been a natural but uncounted rise, via incremental additions to the non-English journal aggregators. Such as CiNii, Revues, Dialnet etc, which JURN indexes.<\/p>\n
* Expanded via the addition of over 250 open ecology related journals<\/a>, and all known related subject repositories from marine science to ornithology.<\/p>\n * Expanded via incorporating my defunct FUSE business search tool into JURN, adding about 50 selected business journal titles, plus a variety of law titles.<\/p>\n * Expanded to cover science and biomedical, mostly via indexing reputable mega-aggregators of open science articles.<\/p>\n * Direct indexing of PDFs held in all of the UK’s notable full-text university repositories, plus PDFs in the larger full-text repositories in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Other nations also had major repositories added (Nairobi, Kenya<\/a> for instance), but not in a systematic way. This duplicates CORE somewhat, but provides a useful alternative source for the CSE to draw on for results.<\/p>\n * Direct indexing of the PDFs at many newly discovered subject repositories (from the Getty Virtual Library through the U.S. Air Force Historical Studies Office).<\/p>\n * I ‘opened up the throttle’ on previously indexed dspace \/ digitalcommons \/ scholarworks repository URLs, to target all PDFs there (rather than just those of a specific journal).<\/p>\n * A complete close hand-and-eye scrutiny and weeding of the complete spreadsheet of indexed URLs, which took about a month.<\/p>\n * A complete automated checking of all URLs for ongoing appearance on Google Search. <\/p>\n * Ongoing removal of open titles found to be ‘404’ dead or spirited away to a paywall publisher (it happens).<\/p>\n * Ongoing monitoring of the evidence for claims about allegedly ‘questionable’ and ‘predatory’ journals. I find Beall’s evidence on MDPI and ANSINetwork to be lacking, and these publishers are included in JURN (as they are in the DOAJ).<\/p>\n * Ongoing testing<\/a> of the search results given by JURN.<\/p>\n * A back-end code overhaul for the main landing page and results page at www.jurn.org<\/p>\n