{"id":24427,"date":"2020-09-28T10:57:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:57:03","slug":"internet-archive-scholar-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/internet-archive-scholar-is-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Archive Scholar is live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet Archive Scholar<\/a>, formerly the Fat Cat project, now live and purring. Full-marks for having that rarest of sidebar search-filters, “OA”, though “Fulltext” is presumably broader and thus the one most likely to be used most. It’s also great to see there’s now a keyword-based way to search across all those microfilm journal runs that Archive.org has been uploading recently.<\/p>\n

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I wouldn’t have used the open ISSN ROAD as a source, nor visually implied that it’s a possible quality-marker. But at least it’s being balanced against the more rigorous DOAJ, and there’s a yes\/no<\/em> flag for both services on the article’s record-page…<\/p>\n

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It’s good that the “Read full-text” button goes to a PDF copy at the WayBack Machine, and yet there is also a live link on the record-page that serves to keep a record of the source URL. <\/p>\n

Not all record pages have full-text, though these are very rare. In which case the user is prompted to find and save…<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately IA Scholar doesn’t appear to respect “quote marks” in search, which is not ideal for a scholarly search engine. For instance a search for “Creationism” defaults to results for “creation”. Nor can it do Google-y stuff like intitle:<\/strong> or anything similar via the sidebar, though I guess such refinements may be yet to come. Update: the command is: title:<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n

A quick test search for Mongolian folk song<\/em> suggests it’s not wildly astray in terms of relevance. It’s not being led astray by ‘Song’ as a common Chinese author name, for instance, or mongolism as a genetic disease.<\/p>\n

How far will Google Search index the fatcat URL? Will they block it from results in due course, for being too verbose and swamping results? Or just tweak the de-duplication algorithm to suppress it a bit? Well, they’re indexing it for now, and as such it’s been experimentally added to JURN. It may well come out again, but I want to test it for a while. If Google Search fully indexes, that should theoretically then give JURN users a way into all the microfilm journal-runs that Archive.org that has recently been uploading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet Archive Scholar, formerly the Fat Cat project, now live and purring. Full-marks for having that rarest of sidebar search-filters, …<\/p>\n

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