by crauter | Nov 6, 2013 | Publishing, REF, Research Impact
According to a paper uploaded to arXiv in April 2013, papers now need about twice as many citations to rank in the top 5% or 1% papers as they did 40 years ago. Since the late 1980s, a decreasing proportion of top cited papers have been published in elite journals....
by crauter | Oct 22, 2013 | Open Access, Publishing
As part of Open Access week, Rebecca Lawrence (Faculty of 1000) gave the first SURF Seminar talk of this academic year. Rebecca launched F1000 Posters (an open access repository for conference posters from the world of Bioscience & Medicine). More recently, she...
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 | May 22, 2013 | Publishing, Research News
Have you seen the patter blog? This interesting blog produced by Pat Thompson, Professor of Education at Nottingham University, covers a host of topics on research education, academic writing, academic life etc.For those of you who may be new to writing for journals...
by crauter | Apr 9, 2013 | Open Access, Publishing
RCUK has published ( 8 April 2013) the latest version of its Policy and Guidance on Open Access. This applies to publication of peer reviewed research articles and conference proceedings which acknowledge RCUK funding. It has also provided a FAQ document, which will...
by crauter | Jun 21, 2012 | Publishing, Research News
The report of the working group established by Willetts last year has released it’s report, 19 June 2012. The full report is available online and RIN (Research Information Network) have put links on their website to comments on the report. ...
