Jurn

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Short description: Search tool for full-text scholarly works

Jurn is a free online search tool for the finding and downloading of free full-text scholarly works. It was established by David Haden in a public online open beta version in February 2009,[1] initially for finding open access electronic journal articles in the arts and humanities. An additional public directory of web links to the indexed journals was placed online in mid 2009.[2] The Jurn search service and directory has since been continually updated and cleaned.[3] In March 2014 Jurn expanded to index topics in science, biomedicine, business and economics, plus selected university repository services for open access deposit papers and full-text theses.[4] Jurn is powered by a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) and is run without any adverts.

LiLi Li of Georgia Southern University described Jurn as a "recognised academic search engine" in his 2014 book Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment, and included a paragraph describing the Jurn service.[5] Jurn also has a descriptive entry in Marcus P. Zillman's annotated White Paper "Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources".[6] In 2015 University of Maryland librarian Matthew Testa tested JURN alongside Google Scholar and he concluded that... "JURN can be an effective way to find OA [open access] content from a variety of sources".[7]

At 2016 Jurn is web linked by a number of academic and government libraries, including the Central Library of the European Commission,[8] Jesus College, University of Cambridge,[9] University of California[10] and Princeton University Library.[11]

GRAFT (Global Repository Access Full-Text), powered by a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), searches across full-text and records alike, in 4,765 repositories.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Open access in 2009". https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4322584/suber_oa2009.html. 
  2. ↑ "Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 6/2/09". http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-09.htm. 
  3. ↑ "FAQ: about JURN". February 3, 2009. https://jurnsearch.wordpress.com/about/. 
  4. ↑ "LibraryLearningSpace (online continuation of ACCESS: Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services) 25 April 2014". http://librarylearningspace.com/jurn-org-academic-search-tool-expands-scope/. 
  5. ↑ LiLi Li, Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment, Elsevier 2014, p.185.
  6. ↑ "Marcus P. Zillman, "Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources"". http://whitepapers.virtualprivatelibrary.net/Scholar.pdf. 
  7. ↑ M. Testa, "Availability and Discoverability of Open-Access Journals in Music", Music Reference Services Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2016.
  8. ↑ "Central Library of the European Commission, Virtual Reference Collection: Open Access Search Tools". http://ec.europa.eu/eclas/vrc/oa_sear.htm. 
  9. ↑ "Private Site". https://quinlibrary.wordpress.com/web-resources/web-search/. 
  10. ↑ "Open Access Journals". January 10, 2012. https://www.library.ucsb.edu/scholarly-communication/open-access-journals. 
  11. ↑ "Princeton University Library Online Reference Shelf: Free Online Journals". http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84054&p=541440. 
  12. ↑ "GRAFT : search across all the world's academic repositories.". https://www.jurn.link/graft/index.html. 

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