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]

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References

  1. ^ "Open access in 2009". dash.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  2. ^ "Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 6/2/09". legacy.earlham.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  3. ^ "FAQ: about JURN". February 3, 2009. Archived from the original on April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  4. ^ "LibraryLearningSpace (online continuation of ACCESS: Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services) 25 April 2014". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  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"" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-24. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  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". Archived from the original on 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  9. ^ "Private Site". quinlibrary.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  10. ^ "Open Access Journals". UCSB Library. January 10, 2012. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  11. ^ "Princeton University Library Online Reference Shelf: Free Online Journals". Archived from the original on 2014-12-24. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  12. ^ "GRAFT : search across all the world's academic repositories". jurn.link. Retrieved 25 January 2023.

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