Did you know that the librar has an area for postgraduate students to study in? It’s on level 7 and is open to all of you doing:
Something for the library students & those interested in libraries & research:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf
In the winter of 2008, the Council on Library and Information Services (CLIR) convened a group of 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists to look into the following question: “How should we be rethinking the research library in a swiftly changing information landscape?”
There are articles from “Future of the Library in the Research University” to “Role of the Library in 21st Century Scholarly Publishing” and “How to Change Faculty Perceptions
of Librarians and Ensure the Future of the Research Library”
• Improving research theses access to those who need it
• Improving post graduate research knowledge transfer to students
• Creating a one stop electronic shop for all UK Theses
• Promoting UK Higher Education post graduate research to the world
• Contributing to the global knowledge pool
You will need to register first (free). Once registered you can search (limit option is available for those theses available for immediate download), bring the record up, then add to basket, checkout, agree to terms, continue with order, download file.
For more information on how to find theses and dissertations please see QUT Library subject guide Theses and dissertations http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/theses.jsp
In this seventh annual ranking from ScienceWatch.com, countries are ranked according to research output and citation performance using data from Essential Science Indicators.
(Remember QUT Library provides access to Essential Science Indicators via the QUT Library databases page.)
The analysis, reflecting all fields of science, is based on papers published and cited between January 1998 and August 31, 2008.
As in the previous Top 20 rankings, the United States shows dominance according to the measures of total citations and number of published papers, with Germany, England, and Japan also having strong showings in these categories.
Significantly, China makes its first appearance in the top five of nations according to paper output.
And in the citations-per-paper ranking, Switzerland maintains the top position it established in previous rankings. While the nation produced a comparatively modest quantity of papers over the decade, its scientists displayed a knack for participation in high-impact work, notably a highly cited paper on protein modeling, along with several international collaborations reviewing particle physics, and a report detailing the sequence of the mouse genome.
For the list go to http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2008/08decALL
The new functionality, listed below, found in the latest release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on the Web attempts to solve the problem of inappropriate use of Impact Factor values.
Five-Year Impact Factor : Gives a broader range of citation activity for a more informative snapshot over time.
For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.
Eigenfactor : also a five-year metric, that uses citing journal data from the entire JCR file is designed to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships.
Graphic Displays of Impact Factor “Box Plots” : A graphic interpretation of how a journal ranks in different categories. It provides information about the distribution of journals based on Impact Factor values.
Rank-in-Category Tables for Journals Covering Multiple Disciplines : Allows a journal to be seen in the context of multiple categories at a glance rather than only a single one.
Journal “Self Citations” : An analysis of journal self citations and their contribution to the journal Impact Factor calculation.
To access the JCR on the Web go to the QUT Library homepage and select databases. In the Database title box enter jcr and select Find databases. On the next page select the database name hyperlink to connect to the database.
Or you may click the More details link to bring up a full one page description for this database.
In Web of Science one can now search by Funding Agency (e.g., NHMRC) or Grant Number. You will also see when you look at an individual record there is information about the Funding Agency and/or Grant Number if applicable.
If you do a search then you can refine results (column on left-hand side) and select Institutions. Click the more options- values link to see a list of all the Institutions to which you can refine your search. Sort them Alphabetically.
ticTOCs, available at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk, is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, it’s easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 420 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs).
ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines.
In early 2005 Professor Ray Frost began uploading postprint versions of his journal articles to QUT ePrints at http://eprints.qut.edu.au. When he saw how frequently they were being accessed, he uploaded some of his older publications (from 2000-2004) and now has over 350 of his publications in the repository. Professor Frost says he has found that it actually saves him time as it only takes him around 5 minutes to upload each paper and he now has far fewer emails requesting free copies of his work.
However, the best return on his investment (of time) has been the phenomenal growth in his citation rate since 2005 (as indicated in Web of Science).Ray Frost is convinced that the dramatic increase in his citation rate is due to the open access copies of his papers that now supplement the journal versions. Since 2005, the postprint versions of his articles have been downloaded over 174,000 times; including 115,866 downloads in the last 12 months. Most of his repository records include a ‘doi’ link to the published version of the fulltext, but these links are only useful to people with a subscription to the journal or the database (eg ScienceDirect). Therefore, it is probably safe to conclude that most of the people who downloaded copies of Professor Frost’s articles would otherwise not have had access to his work – and that some of these additional readers went on to cite his work in their own publications (hence, the increased citation rate).
QUT ePrints has released an updated version of their website.
There are a number of benefits including:
For more information about this service, please contact eprints@qut.edu.au
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