Facebook for Faculty (Part Two) June 30, 2009
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Name ambiguity is a recurring issue that impacts research accuracy and quality, career advancement and tenure, global collaboration among researchers, and identification and attribution of funding for institutions and individual authors alike.
ResearcherID.com by Thomson Reuters (the creators of ISI’s Journal Citation Reports) allows researchers to:
- Generate a unique identifier to ensure that your work is correctly attributed to you
- Provide a way for your institution to properly measure your performance
- Manage your publication list and professional profile online, in one place
- List previous institutions in your profile to helps others find you as you move through your career
Library Guides in Non-English Languages June 26, 2009
Posted by Nathaniel in : Foreign languages, Research Help , add a comment
Attention: Faculty and Teaching Assistants
Do you teach classes in non-English languages?
Does your class need library resources?
Subject specialists, with language skills across the curriculum, are available to create online guides that showcase the wonderful range of non-English resources the library has on offer. These guides can be easily integrated into Blackboard for use by students.
Would you like a library guide for your class? Ask a Librarian!
Facebook for Faculty (Part One) June 22, 2009
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2collab is a collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities.
Produced by Elsevier and intended for use by professional researchers in academic, government and corporate institutions, 2collab provides a great solution for the following challenges:
1. I need a place to store and manage my online bookmarks
2. I’m collaborating with colleagues and I need a place where I can share information easily with my network
3. I need new ways to get recognition for my work
As a published author you can import and display your publication history (with citation counts!) using Elsevier’s extensive coverage of over 2.5 million validated author profiles and a database of 15,800 peer-reviewed journals.
Are you up-to-date? May 28, 2009
Posted by Nathaniel in : Cool tools, Database Tip, Duke researchers, Research Help, Tips for students , 2comments
For many faculty and graduate students who remain on-campus, the summer is the time to catch up with all those things that got left behind in the end-of-semester rush.
With the deluge of articles and books in your field, it’s sometimes a challenge to keep up-to-date.
Not any more.
If you use Duke’s databases for your research, you can use RSS feeds to send you automatic updates on relevant articles, authors, journals, search results and citations.
These feeds allow you to automatically and effortlessly:
-Find out who’s citing your work
-Find new research in your field…
Publish or Perish May 22, 2009
Posted by Michael in : Cool tools, Original research, Research Help , add a commentThere are a number of ways to analyze the impact of publications of a particular researcher (including yourself). A longtime favorite has been ISI’s (Social) Science Citation Index, which has come to the web as Web of Science. The web has introduced a number of other tools for assessing the impact of a specific researcher or publication. Some of these are GoogleScholar (don’t forget to set your preferences!), Scopus, SciFinder Scholar, and MathSciNet among many others.
Joining this group is Publish or Perish, with a slightly different take on this process. Publish or Perish uses data from Google Scholar, but it automatically does analysis on the citation patterns for specific authors. After searching for an author (works best with first initial and quotes, such as “DG Schaeffer”) you can select the papers you want to analyze and you get metrics such as total citations, cites per year, h-index, g-index, etc. Any analysis done can be exported to EndNote, BibTeX or a CSV file.
The software is available for Windows and Linux and is a quick, light, free download from the Publish or Perish website. It’s more of a do-one-thing-well software and isn’t full of features, but this makes it easy to use. It was created by an Australian professor and she includes some thoughts on her site about GoogleScholar as a citation tool as well as an explanation of the metrics used in the software.
