by crauter | Jul 12, 2013 | Library Resources for Research
Swansea University Library has the first UK trial of a nifty little app that allows you to create a bookshelf of your favourite journals from amongst our university holdings. If you want to read any articles from those journals later, you can put it in your “Saved...
by crauter | Jun 20, 2013 | Library Resources for Research, Publishing
ISI have released the most recent data which you can check to find Journal Impact factors. The Library has a subscription to this and you can access the data on the Web of Knowledge platform. Log in using IP Authentication (on campus only) OR Institutional...
by crauter | Jun 27, 2012 | Library Resources for Research
The REF will be using data from SCOPUS for citations analysis. BIS (Dept for Business Innovation & Skills) used SCOPUS data to map areas of expertise in the UK in the ‘International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base, 2011’. CHECK THAT YOUR...
by crauter | May 22, 2012 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
We have on campus access to Periodicals Index Online until 15 June. Periodicals Index Online Indexes over 20 million articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Journals are indexed from their first volume (in some cases published over 300...
by crauter | May 11, 2012 | Library Resources for Research
We ran a fully-booked session on “Getting Published” for Postgraduates this week in the library. One of the topics we looked at was finding the journals in your subject that have the biggest impact factor. The “Impact Factor” of a journal is a...
by crauter | Apr 26, 2012 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
Swansea University library has a subscription to the SCOPUS database, a vast multidisciplinary index of academic materials. The database is straightforward to use for a search and will hopefully retrieve a substantial set of results for your topic. However, if you...
