{"id":15965,"date":"2018-08-28T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15965"},"modified":"2018-08-28T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:00:15","slug":"it-was-only-half-heartedly-that-they-searched-vainly-as-it-proved-h-p-lovecraft-call-of-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/08\/28\/it-was-only-half-heartedly-that-they-searched-vainly-as-it-proved-h-p-lovecraft-call-of-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"“It was only half-heartedly that they searched \u2014 vainly, as it proved” – H.P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The start of the university year looms once more, and for some that means the start of the sprint toward the final dissertation hand-in in January 2019. Want to amaze your tutor with your ‘mad scientist’-level search skills? Here are a few ‘power-up items’ that I recently noted over at my JURN blog, and which don’t require you to sign up to some online Cloud service.<\/p>\n

* WorldBrain for Chrome<\/a>. Locally copies the text of all the Web pages you visit, and makes the resulting cache searchable by keyword. Bookmarks and blogs are fine as a basic ‘outboard brain’, but if you need global domination this seems useful.<\/p>\n

* Open Semantic Desktop Search<\/a>. Genuinely free desktop search for Windows, enabling Google-like search across and inside your bulging folder of saved research texts and PDFs. It can also auto-OCR inside PDFs that don\u2019t have OCR text, a new feature added in a December 2017 update. Worth trying as an open source alternative to the increasingly nagging and intrusive Copernic Desktop Search.<\/p>\n

* My own JURN search-engine<\/a>. Speedy keyword-search across all public ‘open access’ arts and humanities journals, plus the full-text from selected university repositories. Groups tests show it regularly outperforms all other such services, even Google Scholar, for finding free public articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The start of the university year looms once more, and for some that means the start of the sprint toward …<\/p>\n

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