"Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 3614 journals in the directory. Currently 1249 journals are searchable at article level. 208756 articles are included".
IFLA Journal, 34.2
103 pages; PDF.
Articles include:
+ Canadian Libraries on the Agenda: their accomplishments and directions+ Understanding Cybersocial Network Trends for Innovation in Libraries
+ North African Research Tendencies in Library and Information Science: the theoretical and the empirical
+ The Right of Access to Information: opportunities and challenges for civil society and good governance in South Africa
+ The DISA Project. Packaging South African heritage as a continuing resource: content, access, ownership and ideology
Source: IFLA
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The goal of CLR is to be an online source "for insightful, irreverent book reviews, thought provoking essays, and interviews with talented authors." Find reviews for fiction and non-fiction books, author interviews, and essays on topics such as a Frida Kahlo art exhibit, Art Deco in Havana, Cuba, and notes from Italy. Also includes a blog called "The Balcony."
URL: http://calitreview.com/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26370
Annotation copyright LII.ORG
International Journal of Cuban Studies
International Journal of Cuban Studies
is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the International
Institute for the Study of Cuba at London Metropolitan University.
From the homepage:
From Peter Scott's Library blog
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/SWE/TBI/index.html
The Bottle Imp journal takes its name from an 1891 short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and it "exists to promote and support the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language." They pull no punches on their site when they note that "We're sure you'll find something to intrigue, inspire or annoy you!" The journal is a delightful find, and contributors to its pages include writers and academics from all over the world. Published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, the journal comes out twice a year, and visitors to their site can read current and past issues at no charge here. Regular columns in the journal include the "Scots Word of the Season", a listing of relevant conferences, and information on new publications. Past issues have also included trenchant pieces on Scottish Romanticism and the appearance of the devil in Scottish literature. [KMG] Scout Report
More and more educators may wish to get involved with online teaching initiatives, but they may not be sure where to start. That's where the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) steps in to provide a bit of assistance. JOLT is published four times a year, and its objectives are to enable faculty to use technology effectively in teaching and learning and also to enable academic programs to design and deploy academic technology. The journal has been published since the summer of 2005, and first-time visitors should take a look at the current issue to get a sense of their work. Visitors will find pieces on course management systems, creativity in online courses, and how to monitor and examine online discussions. Those who are so inclined should feel welcome to submit their own work for potential inclusion in a forthcoming volume. [KMG] Scout Report
Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation is a new peer-reviewed OA journal sponsored by the Sense Lab. The inaugural issue is undated but now online.
What is research-creation? From the about page:
Inflexions...invite[s] writing and/or other forms of expression actively exploring such issues as: (inter/trans/non) disciplinarity; the emergence of new modes of collaboration; micropolitics and the life and death of institutions; creativity, subjectivity and collectivity in cultural production; the ethics of aesthetics; the aesthetic as ethics. The goal is to promote experimental practices combining research and creation in such a way as to foster symbiotic links between philosophical inquiry, technological innovation, artistic production, and social and political engagement. Of continuing concern will be how these efforts may renew and recast relations between the concrete and the abstract, perception and conception, the body and technology...
This site
is maintained by Oxford University Press to provide open access to a number of its
academic journal titles. The website includes information and license terms
relating to Open Access publishing at OUP. It also includes a full list (with
links) to the participating ejournal titles. These cover a range of sciences,
social sciences and arts and humanities titles. Topics from the social sciences
include: education, public health psychology and law. Details on coverage and
content is provided for each individual title. Note that some titles are
offering a semi open access policy, therefore some items may be limited to
subscribers only. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
This website is maintained by The Library of Congress Office, Nairobi,
Kenya. It contains a free searchable database of references to articles
from over 300 journal titles published in over 25 African nations from
1991 to the present day. These include: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, the
Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique,
Namibia, Reunion, Rwanda, the Seychelles, Somalia, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana and Senegal.
Although the titles indexed are not full text, they include citations
to scholarly journals and periodicals published by non-governmental and
civil society organisations difficult to trace elsewhere. A wide range
of subject areas from the sciences, social sciences and humanities are
covered. From Intute.ac.uk
http://memory.loc.gov/misc/qsihtml/
Readers may have heard of the "digital divide", but what about the scientific "digital divide"? The Open Science Directory is attempting to bridge this gap by providing access to a wide range of journals to researchers in both developing and developed countries. Working with the support of EBSCO Information Services and Hasselt University Library, the Open Science Directory provides access to approximately 13000 scientific journals. The Directory includes collections of open access journals and also draws on a variety of other resources, including BioMed Central and PubMed Central. By clicking on the "Open Science Directory" tab, visitors will be redirected to the site's sophisticated search engine. Visitors can browse the list of titles alphabetically, topically, or also create their own detailed search across a number of fields. [KMG] Scout Report
| An activity theoretic model for information quality change | |
| Besiki Stvilia, Les Gasser |
| The contribution of online news attributes to its diffusion: An empirical exploration based on a proposed theoretical model for the micro-process of online news adoption/use | |
| An Nguyen |
| Info-communism? Ownership and freedom in the digital economy | |
| Milton Mueller |
| Implementation of alternative publishing channels by Greek newspapers | |
| Evagelia Avraam, Andreas Pomportsis, George Tsourvakas |
| Community IT workshops as a strategy for community learning | |
| John M. Carroll |
Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
This work was originally begun in September of 1974 as an effort to index all the issues of each periodical/journal title and place them all in one source.
This English language database indexes over 33,000 articles from over 280 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. The titles were originally chosen from the library at California State University-Chico and that number were later expanded by using materials from Northwestern University and other major university libraries as well as the Library of Congress.
Each title is indexed from its first day of publication to the present or, either its date of ceasing or a date where the journal or periodical no longer covered Africa on a regular basis. In only in a few cases were titles dropped due to the difficulty in obtaining copies or irregularities in the journal's publishing schedule.
Of the over 280 journals and periodicals indexed, more than half have ceased being published. Until the mid-1960's few Africana journals were indexed in major indexing tools. This work hopes to fill the gap by indexing Africana materials from the mid-nineteenth century to today all in one index.
A title list of all journals and periodicals indexed, including the years the journals or periodicals were published and indexed is included by a link from the front page of this database.
The titles indexed in this database represent Africana materials published in from over 22 nations within North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
http://www.africabib.org/africa.html
National FORUM Journals was founded in 1983. Since then, over 4,000
professors have published in these national and international refereed
journals. Their titled include: FOCUS on Colleges, University, and
Schools; International Journal of Scholarly Academic Intellectual
Diversity IJ SAID; Journal National FORUM of Educational Administration
and Supervision Journal; National FORUM of Applied Educational Research
Journal; National FORUM of Teacher Education Journal; National FORUM of
Special Education Journal; National FORUM of Multicultural Issues
Journal. Users can sign up for email updates from the site and explore
the archive of previous articles. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.nationalforum.com/
Beginning today, TheAtlantic.com is dropping its subscriber registration requirement and making the site free to all visitors.
Now, in addition to such offerings as blogs, author dispatches, slideshows, interviews, and videos, readers can also browse issues going back to 1995, along with hundreds of articles dating as far back as 1857, the year The Atlantic was founded.
We’re pleased to bring The Atlantic before a broader online audience. We hope that the quality of its writing, the trenchancy of its insights, and the depth and thoughtfulness of its reporting will inspire many of our online readers to join the Atlantic family by becoming print subscribers.
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