FW: JLA missing from JSTOR? Or recommended search aggregators?

[Oona Schmid]

Dear Alejandro Paz,

Thank you for raising this topic. After reading your email, I wrote JSTOR and they agreed to include the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology in a forthcoming package on language. As Erika Alpert pointed out, linguistics and languages are not well-covered in the current Arts & Sciences packages, so I'm delighted at both developments. Inclusion in the package may still take some time as we arrange for all backfiles to be scanned. 

In the meanwhile, I also wanted to respond to your question concerning information aggregators. The digital era poses a daily (hourly?) flood of information. In the recent (very small sample size) survey I did on technology use by anthropologists, I asked respondents: Do you use any of the following alerting tools to learn about new scholarly content? (check all that apply.)

49.44% said they use Social media sites, like Academia.edu, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc.
33.71% said they use Blogs
32.58% said they use Automated alerts from a search engine (like Google Alerts) or from an RSS feed
I was surprised that only 10.11% said they use eTOC or keyword alerts from publishers.

You might find that you want to set up an automated alert (using very specific keywords for your research areas) from Google and/or post to ask about blogs that are particularly interesting to someone working in your scholarly areas.
All best, Oona


Oona Schmid
Director, Publishing
American Anthropological Association
SkypeID: oona.schmid
Phone: 703-528-1902
Email: oschmid at aaanet.org

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Subject: JLA missing from JSTOR? Or recommended search aggregators?

Dear Colleagues,

I usually use JSTOR when I want to do searches within (socio-cultural) Anthro journals, mostly because I find AnthroSource to be completely unwieldy. I just noticed however that the JLA (SLA's flagship journal) is not actually indexed by JSTOR. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but is there some way to suggest they do?

But I also wondered what aggregators/databases others use for searching Anthro journals and/or journals in which many linguistic anthropologists publish (JLA, Lg in Soc, Lg & Comm, etc).

I noticed that Anthrosource has a link to Wiley's Online Library, but it doesn't seem clear to me how to narrow searches to Anthro journals, or just socio-cultural Anthro journals. It is however possible to search one journal fairly easily.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Alejandro
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Alejandro I. Paz
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Humanities University of Toronto Scarborough Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics University of Toronto alejandro.paz at utoronto.ca _________________________________________________