{"id":6541,"date":"2011-03-15T16:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2011-03-15T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:28:34","slug":"an-academic-search-group-test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/03\/15\/an-academic-search-group-test-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An academic search group-test"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little group test, based on the single keyword Galerius<\/strong>. Chosen simply because a search for his name recently turned up in JURN’s usage statistics. This group test looked for relevant free full-text journal articles or book chapters in English, within the first three pages of results, and found:—<\/p>\n

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JURN’s number of relevant results would have been higher if I had included four results from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology<\/em>. Several were also omitted because they only seemed to have the briefest mention of Galerius. In total, JURN provided 329 results for keyword Galerius<\/strong> — although not all in English. If only 50 or so of those were highly relevant (and a slightly more targeted search for Galerius Romuliana<\/strong> gives 37 that are very relevant to his main palace), rather than just incidental mentions of the name, then that would be quite a good haul for a newbie searcher just trying to use a single keyword. A couple of the best articles in English were pushed down to the last page of results, in amongst the non-English material, as they were on the French server Persee — presumably the Google algorithm thus classed them as “non-English” despite the use of English in the article (it’s apparently not currently possible to turn off the location detector). So there’s an interesting tip for JURN users — always skip to the furtherest search result page and check what’s there. It won’t be the sort of junk and spam you’d see in a normal set of Google Search results.<\/p>\n

The main Google Search test (see above graph and table) involved actually downloading the PDFs to see if they really were articles or chapters, or just timelines\/course documents\/student essays. Both of the OAIster full-text results were in repositories. The single Archive.org result was a numismatic (coins) publication. All the HathiTrust results were from before 1910. Google Book Search results included several from pre-1910, including three for Gibbon’s Decline and Fall<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Those lucky few with access to Project Muse would have found 29 records in the results for this keyword, and JSTOR subscribers would have had a bumper crop of 55 quality full-text English results in the first three pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little group test, based on the single keyword Galerius. Chosen simply because a search for his name recently turned …<\/p>\n

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