Jurn

Jurn is a free online search tool for the finding and downloading of free full-text scholarly works. Jurn was first established in a public online open beta version in February 2009.^[1] Jurn was initially a free search tool for finding full-text 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, cleaned, and expanded.^[3] In March 2014 Jurn expanded to index open access journals on ecology topics, science and biomedical, 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] At 2014 Jurn is web linked by a number of academic and government libraries, including the Central Library of the European Commission,^[7] Jesus College, University of Cambridge,^[8] The University of California^[9] and Princeton University Library.^[10]

References

External links

• Official website
• Jurn directory of free arts & humanities ejournals in English