You Know What Really Sucks?
Not only was there a famous philosopher named Berkeley, there is also a city named Berkeley. And that city has a university in it. And that university has a prolific publishing house.
So when you search JStor for papers with "Berkeley" in the full text, you get a lot of false positives.
So when you search JStor for papers with "Berkeley" in the full text, you get a lot of false positives.
I like to think that UC Berkeley exists only in the imagination.
ReplyDeleteI hate this! It happens when you google "Keynes" too. All kinds of stuff on Milton Keynes and Skandar Keynes pop up.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that it's gotten better on my computer because the search algorithm directs me towards J.M. Keynes, because it knows what I've searched on in the past. But on a public computer it can be bad.
I have to say - that's usually not as big of a problem on journal searches.