ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
October 7, 2015
In almost every aspect of our lives, we have a unique identifier, enabling us to be uniquely identified. This might be a student/staff ID, a bank account number, a customer reference for a utility service etc. You are little more than a number inside an IT system! When you create an account with a journal, …
New Association of Business School Journal List
February 27, 2015
The ABS (Association of Business Schools) has just released its 2015 list of recognised journals. See, http://www.bizschooljournals.com/
2013 ISI Impact Factors
August 1, 2014
Thomson Reuters have just released the 2013 impact factors. You are able to access these through Web of Knowledge, and then choosing Journal Citation Reports. If you have problem accessing the information, please contact IS Support. There is oftena debate about whether metric driven research is a good or a bad thing. In the Malaysian …
Tips for finishing your PhD thesis on time
June 20, 2014
Anybody who has done, or is doing, a PhD will know the pressures that come at certain times. Often these come at the end, as you strggle to write up, and submit, within the prescribed time. The article, that recently appeared in the Times Higher Education, might just help! Header Image: Typing: Downloaded from Google …
Document Object Identifier: Explained
May 30, 2014
When we collect data for our MyRA return we require you to update your e-staff profile and we ask (insist even) that you supply a Document Object Identifier (DOI). We also ask you to supply an ISSN. But what is this, and why do we need it? You can think of a DOI as a …
International Standard Serial Number: Explained
May 27, 2014
We we do our MyRA return we insist that you supply the ISSN (and DOI) for any publications that you enter into your e-staff profile. But what is an ISSN, and why do we need it? In the same way that an ISBN uniquely identifies a book, an ISSN uniquely identifies a periodical publication. This …
High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC)
April 22, 2014
This post was contributed by Muhammad Yaasiin Oozeer Computers have become an essential and extensively used tool in scientific research. It is no news to anyone that our home personal computer (PC) itself is quite a small piece of magic which facilitates many of our daily tasks. The same PC can actually be used to …
Is it Scopus indexed?
April 2, 2014
This post comes under a short series articles, in the category of Research Tools, which we hope will help you as you carry out your research. The most useful of these posts will also be linked from UNMC’s Research and Knowledge Transfer web site to give another way to access this information. This post is …
Useful research resources (with thanks to CELE)
March 28, 2014
Whilst browsing the Universitity’s web site recently, we came across a CELE (Centre for English Language Education) page that has a lot of useful resources on it. It includes, links to resources that cover things such as plagiarism and how to avoid it, how to reference correctly ad how to use Google Scholar. We were …
Is the journal an ISI journal?
February 27, 2014
This post comes under a short series articles, in the category of Research Tools, which we hope will help you as you carry out your research. The most useful of these posts will also be linked from UNMC’s Research and Knowledge Transfer web site to give another way to access this information. This post is …
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