American Statistical Association (ASA) Journal Collection

QUT Library now provides online access to the American Statistical Association (ASA) journals as listed below:

Journal of the American Statistical Association
American Statistician
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics
Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics
Technometrics

In addition access to the following ASA related journals has been available for some time.

The Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics: Available via Sage Premier and numerous ProQuest databases

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research : Currently freely available online. New journal in 2009.

Journal of Statistics Education : Freely available online.

Journal of Statistical Software : Freely available online.

Statistical analysis and data mining : Online via Wiley InterScience

Statistical Surveys : Freely available online.

Link to an individual journal via a Journal Title search of the QUT Library Catalogue.

Knovel University Challenge for Engineering & Science Students : Begins 30 September 2008 : Extended to 1 December 2008

The annual Knovel University Challenge has been extended until 1 December 2008..

You now have until 1 December 2008 to submit your answers and contact information (full name, university name, email address) via the contest widget available at http://info.knovel.com/challenge/

All entries with a total of at least 3 correct answers will be placed into a random drawing for one of (2) Nintendo Wiis, (3)  iPod Nanos and (6) iTunes Gift Cards.

The drawing will take place on 1 December 2008. All winners must present correct answers to 3 quiz questions.

All universities, domestic and international, are eligible to participate and win. For entries to be valid, and to qualify for prizes, students must use Knovel to answer the questions.

The winners will be contacted by Knovel Corporation via email.

QUT Bluebox Ideas Competition : Total prize pool worth $25,000

The QUT Bluebox Ideas Competition, titled Building ideas from concept to commercialisation, is a university-wide event that encourages QUT students, staff and researchers to investigate commercialisation pathways for inventive, commercially-relevant research ideas, concepts, inventions, innovations, products and research outcomes.

Cash prizes of $10,000 (first place) and $7,500 (for each runner up) will be awarded from a total prize pool worth $25,000.

The competition is open to all QUT staff and students. Applications close on Thursday, July 31st.

(Remember qutbluebox pty ltd (‘bluebox’) is the technology transfer and commercialisation company for QUT research. QUT bluebox : http://www.qutbluebox.com.au/index.jsp )

There are 2 stages to the competition.

Stage 1: Innovative ideas

Submit your inventive research idea to bluebox by 5pm, Thursday 31st July 2008. All entries received are eligible to win Faculty-based “Best Idea” prizes.

Selected finalists will progress to Stage 2 of the competition.

Stage 2: Translating ideas

Develop your idea to pitch stage under the guidance of a business mentor.

Deliver a ten-minute pitch to an expert panel at the finalists’ event (1pm, Thursday 18th September 2008).

For more information, including a link to an application form go to http://www.qutbluebox.com.au/news/upcomingeven/competitions/index.jsp

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

The 2008 Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) has just been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Access the ANZSRC

The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, has announced that the new Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) will be a primary tool for defining disciplines and the make-up of discipline clusters in the Government’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.

To access the full media release from the Minister visit:

http://www.arc.gov.au/media/releases/media_31March08.htm

DEST replaced by DIISR and DEWR

• DIISR Dept. of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and
• DEWR Dept of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Universities will need to deal with both Departments as funding will come from both sources.

These changes will impact on the terminology used locally. For example, the annual “DEST Collection” will now be known by its real name; the Higher Education Research Data Collection or HERDC (pronounced HERDSEE or HERDEC). So if you hear these acronyms being bandied about, you will know what they are talking about. The Library and the Office of Research are continuing to plan for ways to integrate the eprint deposit process with the process for reporting publications for the HERDC. Publications information should only need to be supplied once (by the author) and used many times within the University.

Son of RQF
On February 26th, a media release from the new Minister for Innovation Industry Science and Research (Kim Carr) announced that the RQF would be replaced by a new evaluation system called ERA – Excellence in Research for Australia.

ERA will be more metrics-based than the RQF. The first assessment will be limited to the biological and life sciences, as these fields are served well by the existing metrics.

Consultation will continue (between DIISR and Universities) to identify appropriate metrics and measures for other disciplines.