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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.

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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]

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  3. ↑ "FAQ: about JURN". February 3, 2009. Archived from the original on April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
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  5. ↑ LiLi Li, Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment, Elsevier 2014, p.185.
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  7. ↑ M. Testa, "Availability and Discoverability of Open-Access Journals in Music", Music Reference Services Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2016.
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