Research Resources

Research Assistance
Your Faculty Librarians Ilona Eberle and Susanne Schultz are more than happy to assist you in finding information or suggesting sources. We hope that this site will prove useful and if you have any suggestions for additional inclusions please do not hesitate to contact us.

PostGraduate Toolbox
Contains a useful section of links to sites discussing research methodology
http://www.usq.edu.au/library/help/postgrad/default.htm

Theories used in IS Research
Contains summarized information on theories widely used in IS research, details about the theory, some examples of IS papers using the theory, and links to related sites http://www.istheory.yorku.ca/

Research Bibliography
A bibliography of recent publications on research methods held in the USQ Library
http://www.usq.edu.au/resources/subjectbibliography.pdf

Finding Journals & Articles
Use the USQ Catalogue to find,  by title,  the journals that the USQ Library has access to, both in print and electronically
The A-Z eJournals List lists all our electronic journals that contain full text articles, gives links to the appropriate database and indicates holdings 
Use USQ Access All Databases  to search for articles and citations
Ulrichs Periodical Directory is a good source for finding journals published in your field, where they are indexed and has links to the publishers' websites 
With Google Scholar you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations

Publishing
‘Where do I publish’ An excellent workshop from the University of South Australia

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory
When looking for journals in your area try Ulrich’s, which provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web sites. It can be used to identify relevant, scholarly publications and the links to publishers, websites can be a source of information for intending authors

Cabells Directories
The USQ has subscriptions to the following directories

• Business - Marketing
• Educational - Psychology
• Business - Management
• The Library also holds Accounting , Economics and Finance in print in both the Ready Reference and Main Collections. Call no. 650.025 Cab

Each Directory helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes, the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers

Citation Literature
Journal Citation Reports
For each journal indexed JCR provides:

• Number of articles published in the current year (`source items')
• The number of times any issue of the journal has been cited in the current year (`total citations')
• What publications a journal cites, and which journals cite it
• `Impact factor': the average number of current citations to articles that a journal has published in the previous two years
• `Immediacy index': the average number of times a journal's current articles are cited in the same year
• `Cited half-life': the number of journal publication years which account for 50% of the total citations received by the cited journal in the current year

The Library has prepared a presentation on Using Journal Citation Reports. To trace the citing of authors and articles try the citation indexes in Web of Science. Further information on these indexes look at the "Are You Being Cited" presentation

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Results include a listing of  where the book article or paper was cited

Eigenfactor  ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Eigenfactor uses the structure of the entire network to evaluate the importance of each journal. The website provides influence rankings for 7000+ science and social science journals and rankings for an additional 110,000+ reference items including newspapers, and popular magazines

Web Citations: Tracking Citation Impact  - a paper by Jane Garner, Lynne Horwood and Shirley Sullivan. This paper discusses the Web Citation Index (WCI) and other options for citation tracking, such as Google Scholar and Scopus.

Journal Rankings
You might like to read the commentary on “Does one size fit all?” by Michael Polonsky. This is a cached version of this papers from the Australasian Journal of Marketing.

Journal Rankings in Business
The purpose of this list is to provide in one place articles about the ranking and rating of journals in the broad fields of business and management. Lists by Authour and also by discipline along with related websites. From Western Universities Business Library

A description of what is mean by Tier 1, 2 etc. From IS World  

‘Australian Research Output in Economics and Business: High Volume, Low Impact?’ Anne-Wil Harzing
http://www.agsm.edu.au/eajm/0512/pdf/PAPER1Harzing_AJM_Dec_2005.pdf

Open access, open archives, where to publish and impact factors. All these topics are discussed at this excellent site from the University of North Carolina’s Health Sciences Library
Open Access & Scholarly Communications : Health Sciences Library - UNC-Chapel Hill

Multidiscipline Journal Rankings

DEST List of Peer Reviewed Journals [Not maintained since January 20, 2006, but useful none the less]
http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/62C11493-90DB-442E-87AF-E5E4D6D4DEBE/10055/RegisterOfRefereedJournals03022006.pdf

The Journal Quality List, compiled and edited by Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing is published primarily to assist academics to target papers at journals of an appropriate standard. – Extensive
http://www.harzing.com/

Another one to look at is Sci-Bytes which seems to have all sorts of rankings
http://in-cites.com/research/2006/index.html

There is also a ranking of general business journals at UQ
http://www.business.uq.edu.au/research/resources/journal_list_21_nov_2005.pdf

Stern School of Business
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/cites.htm

Journal Rankings by Discipline

Management and Economics
Journal Ranking in Economics and Management
Produced by the French National Committee for Scientific Research “Economics and Management” 37th Section

Information Systems
IS World's MIS Journal Rankings (it also rates POM and Management Journals
http://www.bus.ucf.edu/csaunders/newjournal.htm

Monash University also has extensive information in the Information Technology field
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/internal-info/ranking-list/

As does Deakin
http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/journals/index.php

CiteSeer
CiteSeer crawls and harvests academic and scientific documents on the web and uses autonomous citation indexing to permit querying by citation or by document ranking them by citation impact. It has over 700,000 documents, primarily in the fields of computer and information science and engineering. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

Marketing
Melbourne University has journal rankings for Marketing journals and also management

Perceptions of Marketing Journals by Senior Academics in Australia and New Zealand
Gillian Sullivan Mort, Janet R. McColl-Kennedy, Geoffrey Kiel & Geoffrey N. Soutar

Recreation and Leisure
Lists major journals in the field with journal citation ranking where possible
http://www.wilderdom.com/journals/journalsRecreation&Leisure.htm

Service Industry Research Centre Journal Rankings 2006
From Griffith University.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/sirc/pdf/sirc_journal_rankings_2006.pdf

Accounting and Finance
Debating Accounting Research Journal Rankings : Empirical Issues From a Citation-based Analysis and Theoretic Dilemmas From Economics
http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/acty/research/pdf/debating_accounting_resea.pdf

Law
From the Washington and Lee Law School. Journals can be searched by country, field of law and rankings. Also contains links to publishers sites
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx

Economics
'Who Cites What?" An article by Clements and Watt from the Economic Record examining the pattern of citations of journal articles, books and other reference material across the various disciplines in Economics
http://ezproxy.usq.edu.au/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.usq.edu.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&an=10075128

ePrints Archives
ePrints are essentially electronic versions of academic or research papers. They can be preprints or postprints of journal or conference papers, technical reports, white papers, research data, etc. The aim of an ePrints archive is to preserve the intellectual output of an institution and make that output easily accessible. For authors, it provides a way to make their research available to the international scholarly community quickly and easily. For readers, it provides free access to international scholarly material, again quickly and easily.http://eprints.usq.edu.au/information.html

Depositing into ePrints
You must register to deposit items into the USQ ePrints system. Registration is limited to current USQ staff and students, and deposits are also subject to eligibility requirements. Once registered, you are then able to access the user area of the archive which allows you to deposit papers, review your documents in the archive, and update your personal details.
http://www.usq.edu.au/eprints/deposit/default.htm

Obtaining Theses
There are a number of sites that will give you access to theses that have been published.
http://www.usq.edu.au/library/help/postgrad/finding.htm#Dissertations

Alerting Services
Many databases have services which help you stay up-to-date in your field, or alert you to new publications of interest. You can be sent Tables of Contents, Search Alerts when articles that match your search query are published or Citation Alerts that notify you when a particular work is cited. http://www.usq.edu.au/library/eservices/alert_services.htm

EndNote
EndNote is a valuable tool which helps you to keep track of your research and to format your papers in the correct referencing style. The Library runs classes on a regular basis on the use of this software
http://www.usq.edu.au/library/infoabout/endnote/default.htm

Finding Conferences
The publications or web sites of the professional associations in your field of study are a good starting point and there are several generic ones
http://www.usq.edu.au/library/help/postgrad/keep.htm#Conferences

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