JANE -- Making Publishing Easier!

Dear All,

Some of you may already have come across this tool, but for those who haven't, I wanted to introduce you to JANE.

JANE is an acronym for Journal/Author Name Estimator. Use it to find:

• Journals to which you should submit your research
• Relevant articles to cite in your paper
• Reviewers for a particular paper

This is how it works:

• Enter the title and/or abstract of your paper in the search box
• Click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'
• Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles

Use it next time you're going through the publication process!

Cheers,

Kate

Access to the Research Outputs of Australian Universities

"The ARROW Discovery Service provides access to the research outputs of Australian universities: unpublished theses, preprints or postprints, as well as published journal articles, images, working papers and technical reports. The majority of items are available online. This Service is designed to provide instant access to scholarly resources to researchers, students, academics and members of the public."

"ARROW contains more than 137,000 records harvested from 23 university repositories, including University of Sydney and 12 other research collections, including the Australasian Digital Theses program, and several e-journals."

Discover the research done by your peers and deposit your research output into Sydney escholarship Repository , for discovery and citation by scholars around the world. Contact your Subject Librarian for further information.

Thomson Scientific To Honor Australia's Top Researchers

"Thomson Scientific, a leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, announced it will honor Australia’s preeminent researchers at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, 2 April, 2008."
read press release.....

Peer Review for Quality Research

Carr off to bright start on research
by Bernard Lane The Australian February 27, 2008
"You need peer review (to judge research quality): peer review is the fundamental instrument for keeping everyone honest,' Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr told the HES yesterday after releasing an outline of the new system, called Excellence in Research for Australia."

getCITED: academic research, citation reports and discussion lists

getCITED is a free academic database, directory and discussion forum created by researchers and scholars for researchers and scholars. Members are able to enter and search all types of publications. In addition to books and articles usually available from other databases, book chapters, conference papers, working papers, reports, papers in conference proceedings, can all be entered and searched.

You can search the database by publication, people, faculty or institution.

Members are able to link publications with all the publications in their bibliographies, enabling a wide variety of publication and citation reports.

Current membership is from 11000+ institutions, including University of Sydney.

How to write consistently boring scientific literature

One of my colleagues sent me a ‘not so boring” article on writing boring scientific literature. Professor Kaj Sand –Jensen from the University of Copenhagen, presents ten recommendations on how to write boring scientific literature and then offers some advice on how to make them more accessible and exciting.

Great tips for all aspiring scientists:

1. Avoid focus
2. Avoid originality and personality;
3. Write long contributions
4. Remove most implications and every speculation
5. Leave out illustrations, particularly good ones
6. Omit necessary steps of reasoning
7. Use many abbreviations and technical terms;
8. Suppress humour and flowery language
9. Degrade species and biology to statistical elements and,
10. Quote numerous papers for self-evident statements.

Extract from: Table 1 page 724

“How to write consistently boring scientific literature?” Kaj Sand-Jensen, Oikos, Vol. 116 (5), May 2007, pp. 723–727.

Share and collaborate in real time with Google Docs

Create and share your documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Create from scratch or upload your existing files. Invite your colleagues and work on documents together. Great way to work on your research projects and presentations for conferences.

Take a tour of Google Docs

Publish Not Perish: the Art and Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals

Getting published in prestigious scholarly journals is customary for tenure and promotions in academia.

“Publish not Perish” is a peer-reviewed online tutorial created through a collaborative effort of the libraries of the University of Colorado. This is an excellent tutorial to help you maximize your chances of publication.

If you are an early career researcher or have never published in a scholarly journal, the tutorial answers the following questions about the process:

-What’s ‘open access,’ and why do I care?
-What kinds of articles should I try to publish?
-How do I find appropriate journals for submitting my work?
-Should I co-author articles with colleagues?
-Where do I get ideas for paper topics?
-How do I turn my idea(s) into a publishable article?
-How do I contact a journal?
-How do I format my paper properly?
-How do I accurately cite my sources?
-How long will it take to hear back about my submission?
-What happens in the peer review process?
-What happens if my paper is rejected?


(“Publish not Perish” has been featured on this blog with kind permission from
Jennifer Knievel, University of Colorado Libraries)

International Journal of Ageing in Later Life

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life is a new open access journal devoted to research on social and cultural aspects of ageing and later life around the world.

This journal is published 2 times per year from 2006. Articles are available free on the internet. Special issues on particular issues on ageing will also be published. Call for papers for special issues is advertised on the Journal Website

Get published fast in a peer-reviewed Journal

BMC Geriatrics , is an open access peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of health care for older people.
Articles are published within few weeks of acceptance. This is an excellent journal to show case your research to the world. Latest highlight is : Ten commandments for the future of ageing research in the UK: a vision for action.

Highly Accessed Research Article in August 2007:

Systematic review of information and support interventions for caregivers of people with dementia

Do you publish in respected journals that are read and cited by your peers?

Consider publishing in the top 5 Journals in Gerontology, as ranked by ISI Journal Citation Reports® 2006. Click on the Journal name to find Instructions to authors

Journal of the American Geriatric Society Impact Factor 3.331
Discipline Ranking: 1/22 (Gerontology); 6/30 (Geriatrics & Gerontology)

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Impact Factor 2.894
Discipline Ranking: 2/22 (Gerontology); 9/30 (Geriatrics & Gerontology)

Journals of Gerontology Series A-Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Impact Factor 2.861
Discipline Ranking 3/22 (Gerontology) 10/30 ( Geriatrics & Gerontology)

Psychology and Aging Impact Factor 2.828
Discipline Ranking 4/22 (Gerontology)

Gerontologist Impact Factor 1.965
Dscipline Ranking 5/22 (Gerontology)