How to go from Abstract/Reference/Citation to Full Text

If you find in the results only an abstract/citation/summary, please follow the steps below to get to the journal and ultimately article:

You will need to use a database called A-Z list (the very first database on our list).
A-Z list is an index of all the journals we are subscribed to plus in which database you will be able to find the journal in full text. So when we do a search in A-Z list we do NOT do an author search or an article title search or a topic search. You have to do a JOURNAL TITLE search as it is only an index of journal titles. (This will not be a problem as the reference will include the journal title)

Here are the instructions:
* Go to the UJ Library list of databases
* Click on A-Z list (a list of all our electronic journals)
* Your surname is your user id and your student number your password.
* Click on Search
* Type in the journal that you are looking for and click on search
* A list of journal titles that contain the words you type in will be displayed
* Click on the blue database title and the journal will open (If your journal is NOT listed i.e. you get a 0 matches found reply, then we do not have a copy in our library ~ please request the article through an Interlibrary Loan)
* Click on the volume and issue
* Click on the article you are looking for (blue and underlined) and it will open up

New Emerald for Managers edition

• Emerald for Managers is an online library of management information.
• It helps managers, business students and researchers perform better by providing access to the latest thinking on management theory and practice. It is up to date, accessible and available in a format to suit all users. (You can log in via your normal Emerald log in details. Emerald is available via the UJ library databases)

December 2007 features:

• Management & Leadership Dave Ulrich & Norm Smallwood In their new book Leadership Brand, Ulrich & Smallwood explore the advantages of a branded approach to leadership.
• Marketing Getting the price right: Kent Monroe Monroe talks here about guidelines for developing and maintaining an effective approach to solving pricing problems.
• Change Management James B. Rieley column: In this month's column, James B. Rieley discusses the effort traps that companies can fall into during a merger.
• Strategy Rules for Renegades: Christine Comaford-Lynch how companies can increase their value, and what makes a successful entrepreneur.
• HR Re-thinking human resources. Why do HR people view themselves as administrative overhead rather than contributors to the company's profitability?
• Knowledge Management What are we managing – knowledge or information?
• Health Care Management Human resource management at the negotiating table. Since the largest proportion of the health budget is spent on staff, “people management” should be a priority.
• E-business IT & Finance IT Risk: Richard Hunter and George Westerman In this interview, Hunter & Westerman discuss IT decision making and risk management.
• Quality Improving quality in the construction industry. Among all industrial sectors, the construction industry has the third highest number of ISO 9000 certificates...
• Public Sector Continuous improvement in the public sector. Traditionally, the public sector has followed the private sector and adapted tools from the manufacturing sector.
  
  © Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Newly published in Times Higher Education Supplement

Tough new hurdle for top UK researchers
UK academics will have to have their research papers cited by their peers at least three times more than the current average rate if they are to meet the new standard for “international excellence” in research.
Credit crackdown: cases in which a senior academic takes credit as a co-author on a junior colleague’s research paper should be defined as plagiarism if he or she has not made a significant contribution to the work, it was argued this week.
Articles published in Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)

New Issue Alert: Small Business Economics

Volume 30(1) 2008 of Small Business Economics is now available on the SpringerLink database. (click on the image to enlarge it)

Table of contents:
1. How does new business formation affect regional development? Introduction to the special issue / Michael Fritsch Page 1 - 14
2. The effect of new business formation on regional development over time: the case of Germany/ Michael Fritsch, Pamela Mueller Page 15 - 29
3. The impact of new firm formation on regional development in the Netherlands/
André Stel, Kashifa Suddle Page 31 - 47
4. Entrepreneurship, regional development and job creation: the case of Portugal/ Rui Baptista, Vítor Escária, Paulo Madruga Page 49 - 58
5. The effects of new firm formation on regional development over time: The case of Great Britain/ Pamela Mueller, André Stel, David J. Storey Page 59 - 71
6. New business formation and employment growth: some evidence for the Spanish manufacturing industry/ Josep Maria Arauzo Carod, Daniel Liviano Solís, Mònica Martín Bofarull Page 73 - 84
7. Employment effects of business dynamics: Mice, Gazelles and Elephants/ Zoltan J. Acs, Pamela Mueller Page 85 - 100
8. The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries/ M.A. Carree, A.R. Thurik Page 101 - 110

If the above links do not work, please access the journal via the A-Z list. Go to www.uj.ac.za/library and click on databases, then click on A-Z list. Type in Small Business Economics and the hosting databases will be displayed - click on SpringerLink to go directly to the journal.

ISI-ranked journal call for papers on 'Personal knowledge management'

Online Information Review - Call for Papers

Special Issue - Personal Knowledge Management as related to the Internet and online sources of information and knowledge. While the traditional view of KM is primarily concerned with managing organisational knowledge, including the knowledge that individuals possess in their heads, through combinations of technology and management processes, the core focus of PKM is 'personal inquiry' - the quest to find, connect, learn and explore. One question that immediately arises, then, is this: Is there an inherent conflict between organisational KM and PKM?

Therefore we have organized this special issue of Online Information Review to delve both deeply and broadly into the area of PKM as it relates to the Internet and online sources of information, knowledge. To achieve this objective both empirical research and conceptual articles are being sought.
Possible topic areas include, but are not limited to:
* The role of technology in PKM *Personal productivity tools * Web 2.0 * Knowledge/ information retrieval * Blogs and wikis * Social and business networking tools * The history of PKM and the Internet * Approaches to PKM – dealing with information overload, quality of online information, etc. *PKM and organisational KM: conflicting or matching objectives; integrating knowledge management systems approaches * PKM and the knowledge society: knowledge workers, social and knowledge networking, e-government * Cultural perspectives of PKM technology and applications * PKM and online education: lifelong learning, training

Deadline for Interlibrary Loans

With the end of the year almost on us (at last!) quite a few of you will want to get a head start on your own research during December/January.
This will usually involve complicated searches on the databases (not Google because we know Google is not academic) and struggling to find the full texts for some articles or finding that UJ does not have a particular book you need.

In cases like the above, you would do an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and get the book/article within a few days or weeks, however the ILL offices are closing before the December holidays.

Closing dates

• International requests (books or articles) - 23 November
• National requests (books or articles) - 11 December

New StatsSA releases

Retail trade sales September 2007

Retail trade sales show an increase in real terms:
Retail trade sales at constant (2000) prices, for the third quarter of 2007, showed an increase of 4,6% compared with the third quarter of 2006. Similarly, retail trade sales at constant (2000) prices, for the first nine months of 2007, increased by 7,1% compared with the first nine months of 2006. This is lower than the 9,9% growth for the first nine months of 2006 compared with the corresponding nine months of 2005.

Wholesale trade sales September 2007

Wholesale trade sales increase in real terms
Wholesale trade sales, at constant (2000) prices, for the third quarter of 2007 increased by 4,5% compared with the third quarter of 2006. Similarly, seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales, at constant (2000) prices, for the third quarter of 2007 increased by 1,1% compared with the previous quarter.

Motor trade sales September 2007

Motor trade sales for the third quarter of 2007 increased by 3,5% compared with the third quarter of 2006. This is lower than the 15,7% increase reported for the third quarter of 2006 compared with the third quarter of 2005.
The growth in the motor trade sales since April 2007 was partly affected by difficulties in the registering of new and used vehicles following the introduction of the new eNaTIS system, the new National Credit Act which was introduced on 1 June 2007, as well as tighter monetary conditions. September 2007 was negatively affected by the motor industry strike

Leading Social Science Research Delivered Daily

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 166,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 133,300 downloadable full text pdf documents. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.

The networks are: Accounting; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financial; Information Systems and eBusiness Networks; Management; Marketing and others.

Each network will cover the following:

• Partners in Publishing Research
• Paper Series
• Conference & Meetings
• Subject Matter eJournals
• Job Openings
• Professional Announcements
• Subscribing Organizations

Subscribers also have the option of viewing the Top Papers; Top Authors and Top Institutions. (subscription is free)

Free Anti-Plagiarism software

The Plagiarism Resource Site, Virgina. The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources.
Links to other Plagiarism sites
Assesment in Higher Education: Plagiarims from the Central Queensland University. This page aims to provide a one-stop shop for links and resources specifically devoted to the subject of plagiarism.


Articles on Plagiarism:
http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/documents/papers/2006Papers21.pdf
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
http://www.cqpress.com/docs/Combating%20Plagiarism.pdf
http://bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/workshops/avoidplagiarism.htm
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/05/2002051401c.htm
http://www.plagiary.org/papers_and_perspectives.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2157435/

World's Top Universities

The World University Rankings 2007 are online here
Martin Ince reveals the winners and losers in The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings 2007.

... The world's top ten universities are in the UK or the US, according to the annual Times Higher-QS World University Rankings published with this issue.

Harvard has emerged as the world's top university for the fourth time in succession, with Cambridge, Oxford and Yale universities all tied for second place.

The UK has four institutions in the top ten this year, compared with three last year. Imperial College London makes fifth place, up from ninth last year. University College London rose 16 places, making it to ninth place. Princeton, California Institute of Technology, Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology make up the rest of the top ten.
... The rankings are based on the opinion of 7,000 active academics and graduate recruiters, alongside quantitative data on research impact, staff and student numbers, and universities' levels of internationalisation.
... The rankings confirm the modest world status of universities in continental Europe, with the top university being France's Ecole Normale Superieure in 26th place.
... The top 200 includes four from the developing world: two in Brazil, one from Mexico and, for the first time, an African university, Cape Town, in 200th place.
... A total of 28 nations have at least one institution in the 200. Virtually every university in Australia is in the rankings, with 12 representatives, while the Netherlands, with 11, emerges as continental Europe's principal power in higher education.
... Several significant Asian universities have risen markedly in the table including Hong Kong, up 15 places to 18th.

Be in the know ..

Be the first to know what is being published on the internet in the fields of Sport and Information/Knowledge Management

The Library subscribes to MarketIQ a company that provides electronic market intelligence via the monitoring of over 200 online media and content portals. The idea is to monitor popular or "grey" internet sites and the content is thus not academic in nature.

Currently we have three News Portals: Sport, Information/Knowledge Management and Accounting.

The portals are updated on a 2 hourly basis 24/7 and articles are archived for 6 months. Coverage is split between South Africa, Africa and International.

Keep up-to-date with Academic Conferences

Academic Conferences Worldwide

Conference Alerts brings together two groups of people - conference organizers, and academics who need to stay informed about conferences.

Receive free e-mailed updates of conferences matching your interests, available dates and preferred destinations. Click on 'Subscribe' to stay up to date with what's happening in your field or country.

I've added links to Conference Alerts's various management subject areas - view them in the right-hand pane of this blog.

Where is the love?

Show your Librarian some love / Todd Gillman
Many academic librarians feel unloved and underappreciated on their campuses, and the main reason is that they sense they are viewed as second-class citizens by members of the teaching faculty.
... Just as children raised in a loving environment tend to fare better in life than those from broken homes, so students trained by professors and librarians who cooperate and affirm each other's role fare better than those forced to bear the brunt of troubled relations.
... If your students didn't get enough exposure to research education before your course (and trust me, they didn't) you owe it to them to bring them in. Most undergraduates come to college having mastered only the most basic tools for research. They can use a dictionary. They can conduct a search in Google that yields results (5 million, in fact!). They may even be able to run an online search by author or title and then find the book on the shelf.
But that's about it -- and that's not nearly enough.
... So if you are a teaching faculty member, why not respond to that librarian who e-mails you every fall with an offer to meet you and your students for research-education (or "information literacy") sessions at the library and take him or her up on it?
Todd Gilman is the librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library.

New Library Catalogue for UJ

The Library and Information Centre is proud to announce the launch of UJLink, the new library catalogue interface, on 1 November 2007. UJLink has a contemporary look and feel and in addition offers enhanced services such as: The ability to do a meta-search which can include the library catalogue as well as a selection of electronic databases and catalogues from other institutions. My UJLink – a facility where library clients can: (1) rate the items in the library collection, (2) save their most useful searches for re-use, (3) keep a reading history, (4) view their loan record, (5) renew items on loan and (6) place holds on items that are not currently available.

What's New @ RefWorks

These enhancements have just been made to RefWorks to help you with your research and improve service:

Direct linking from RefWorks to the database
At the top of your RefWorks page, next to the University of Johannesburg, you will now see a blue i displayed. Clicking on the i will allow you to go directly to the UJ list of database.

Updating User Information
We've now added more User Types to the RefWorks interface, this will help us get a better understanding of who our users are.

While all new users will have the option of accessing the new user types, as an existing user please update your user information in RefWorks and chose the type that best suits you.

You can update your user information by clicking on the Tools option on the menu list and then choosing Update User Information

Email your Librarian
Have a question on RefWorks? Want to suggest a citation format or maybe even improvements? You can now use the Email your Librarian link, located under the Help function, to email any questions or suggestions regarding RefWorks to your Administrator.