by crauter | Apr 7, 2011 | Publishing
It is important that researchers try to retain the right to deposit their papers in institutional repositories. Institutional repositories help the research community to provide open access to research papers. They provide a showcase for an institution’s...
by crauter | Jul 13, 2010 | Publishing, Research Impact
The ISI Journal Citation Reports are the source of impact factors for journals. However, there have long been concerns about how suitable these are for disciplines such as nursing and midwifery. It is therefore interesting to look at research done in Australia. A new...
by crauter | Oct 21, 2009 | Publishing, Research Funding
The Research Information Network (RIN) recently published a report on the effects of measures to evaluate the worth of research upon the publishing and citing behaviour of academic researchers. The report, “Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers...