Measuring Research Impact libguide

The Measuring Research Impact libguide has been published. The target audience for this libguide is researchers at JCU.  It covers:

• Why measure impact and issues to be aware of when measuring research impact - on each page of the libguide
• Bibliometrics - what is it?
• Web of Science, Scopus and some other citation databases
• Cited reference searching: tracking publications which cite a central publications, or the publications cited in the central publication
• Journal Evaluation: tools available in Thomson Reuters (including Journal Impact Factor / Journal Citation Reports); Scopus; and other sources grouped by Multidisciplinary, AESS and LBCA
• Researcher Impact: collating research publications and calculating a h-index in Web of Science and Scopus
• Databases for benchmarking performance, including InCites and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities.

JCU's research via Scopus Affiliated

There is a new content box in the template that lists JCU's latest research via a Scopus RSS feed - see JCU's latest research
You can create your own feed for subject areas, authors, years, or document types or link to this one that covers all of JCU via the Affiliation Search option.

Alert services explain to users

Just sneaking on other libguides, and I found that adding a box (or tab) on Alert Services could be very useful and relevant for most of our libguides (well, not really for the libguides but for the users of those libguides). Three different alert services could be explain: Table of contents (eTOC), databases search and citation alerts. How about creating a generic one, and after that, we could adapt it to our respective subjects? The big question.... where users will find it? Under How to..., under Research, or Journal articles? My preference will be under Research, and as a tab. But this is just my opinion.

Some good examples:

http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=669

http://libguides.usu.edu/content.php?pid=1590

Regards