CompPile News
Rich has indexed and uploaded entries for Visible Language from 2000-2007. With our profession’s current interest in visual rhetoric and new media, this journal is one that might interest a volunteer to maintain?
One of the important features @ CompPile is our list of field-related journals. We now list 306 journals as relevant for CompPile users. CompPile does not yet index all 306, but we have that as a goal.
The list of journals has been moved to the new server, and, in fact, has become two lists. You can see an alphabetical list of journals or you can see journals sorted into one of the 19 “scholarly areas” we identified (as a way to recruit “Associates.”)
From either list, you can volunteer (where needed) to help index, to help maintain and update indexing, and / or to add search terms.
Check it out (and let us know of any glitches or usability issues <comppile@gmail.org>).
From CompPile’s home page, follow the “Journals” link. Or from the top navigation bar, use the “Coverage” menu.
The CompReviews section of CompPile now includes 10 new reviews. You’ll note that several of them are reviews for single essays in edited collections, which is a positive development, I think.
To contribute a review for any item in CompPile, use the “review” link in the left column. The review interface is functional, but not yet finished (design, etc.).
In preparation for the WPA conference next week, I just finished indexing and uploading 132 entries for WPA: Writing Program Administration. That represents all issues from 2000-2007. Entries deserve more attention to search terms, and for one issue, I don’t have ending page numbers.
To entries for the full run of the WPA journal, type “writing program administration” (without quotation marks) in the journal search field.
Not sure who’s reading this, but I want to post this note anyway.
I’m revising the CompReview and Recent Books sections as I move them from the old site to the new server. So users might find some “unfinished” pages that function but that aren’t yet “templated” and thus are missing navigation, etc. I’m not activating any pages that don’t “function” as they should. So if users add reviews now, they will be safe.
Thanks to Mike Palmquist and Justin Jory (WAC Clearinghouse), CompPile now has a complete index of Academic.Writing, Language and Learning across the Disciplines (LLAD), and Across the Disciplines (ATD). These entries include links to the online versions of the articles and annotations.
The first issue of the new online, international Journal of Writing Research is now indexed in CompPile. We will add this to the list of journals that we index regularly.
TETYC is now indexed through its recent 2008 issues. This is an important upload for the 2000+ initiative. We now have an arrangement with the editorial staff at TETYC to help us keep the entries updated.
CompPile now includes the bibliographic entries (with the annotations) that were listed in the WAC Bibliography section of the WAC Clearinghouse. Thanks to Mike Palmquist and Justin Jory for making this possible.
All of the entries that moved to CompPile can be located by using “[WAC Clearinghouse]” as the search term in the annotation field (without the quotes).
Ideally, CompPile will become the “clearinghouse for all WAC bibliography, as we continue our comprehensive inventory of books and journals beyond 2000. Volunteers are always welcome to join this effort.
Users will notice the addition of a CompBlog feed in the bottom left of the front page. I’m trying this feature to generate a bit of interest in the blog and to prompt me (and Rich) to use the blog more regularly.
The blog has an RSS feed available, but I’m not sure if RSS is used by many CompPile users.