It’s a simple as ABDC , the Australian Business Deans Journal List

Find out how your favourite journal is ranked.  Look at the combined list for interdisciplinary areas.  This information may help you in your choice of journals to target for publication.      http://www.abdc.edu.au/
 
 

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Book requests – let me know

Funds are now available for the purchase of new books.  Please send me any requests or suggestions that will improve the library collection.   Mouth watering reads like this!

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New Library Helpdesk

Work begins in mid-June.      We will have a refurbishment of the desk and the Course Reserve area.  A new look for Orientation Week Semester 2.  It will be bigger and better than ever.

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Webometrics – ranking web visibility of universities by measuring open access activity

 Universities ranked according to their web performance via open access repositories! This initiative aims to improve scholarly communication and web visibility of universites world wide.
QUT is ranked 12th in the Oceania region.  
“The “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), [...]

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EIU Viewswire – for country data

If you have not had a chance to look yet, there is still time to investigate the EIU Viewswire database which the QUT library has on trial until 19th July. With the new Data Tool there is  Business Intelligence on 203 countries.    Go to  https://secure.library.qut.edu.au/databases/trials/index.php. 
You need to login with the username, password provided. If QUT did [...]

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Research Skills Development Framework

For those of you who missed the John Willison  seminar on the Research Skills Development Framework,  here is the link to the excellent University of Adelaide website.  
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/rsd/
The Research Skills Development (RSD) framework describes and informs the coherent, explicit and efficient development of student research skills, with examples in the RSD Brochure from both the undergraduate and postgraduate [...]

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Scimago Journal and Country Ranking Portal

Have you had a look at Scimago?  It is a free journal ranking database launched in December 2007
http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php
 This is the work of four universities in Spain to analyse the research output of 15,000 international journals.  It is an open-access database that is collaborating with Elsevier, and the data comes from Scopus. Read Review in http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080102/full/451006a.html
The SCImago [...]

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International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences recently purchased by the Library

Title
International encyclopedia of the social sciences [electronic resource] / William A. Darity, Jr., editor in chief.

Publication Details
Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2008.

Click to view online:

Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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Capacity Building for Research Workshops in the Library

 The Library is offering a Research skills workshops for RAs and Early Career Researchers on the 7th and 13th May 10:00-12:00, V712 ( 7th floor of library).  This is designed to meet the needs of researchers in the Faculty of Business.  This time we will concentrate on citation analysis and open access repositories.  Also Neil Kelson from [...]

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