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/

 

 

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!

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.

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), the largest public research body in Spain.” http://www.webometrics.info/about.html

 Read more about the ranking world of web repositories at http://repositories.webometrics.info/

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 decide to subscribe we would have only one of the EIU products. The library  needs your feedback to decide. EIU Country Data could be replaced by Viewswire.  Will you still have access to the same information. Try it? Have a look?  The Data Tool Function will take you to the search builder where Country Risk Ratings,  Economic Indicators, Country Performance tables can be sourced.  Please send your feedback to your Liasion Librarian or j2.baker@qut.edu.au

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 level.

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 Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database.  Also see the site  http://www.scimago.es/

 

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.

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 High Performance Computing will demonstrate what is on offer in computational software to enhance the analysis and presentation of your research. See http://www.its.qut.edu.au/hpc/

The emphasis will be on hands-on activities covering

Impact Factor and Citation Tracking using  Web Of Science  and Harzings.com.

We will look at Journal Ranking – WOS, Harzings, Australian Business Deans Council Journal List

Do searches using the Open Access Resources - Repec, OAister, Dspace, Google Scholar, SciMago

If you want to go over any other subject areas e.g. Writing a Literature Review, Endnote – just let me know via email and we can organise either a one to one session or if there are several interested a group class.

Attendance at this class can be reimbursed ( $30.00) via the Faculty of Business (Debbie Lampridge) to cover out of pocket expenses e.g. parking, etc.

For more information and if you are interested in coming to either session,  please contact Janet Baker,  j2.baker@qut.edu.au