More Information on the Emerald Author Workshop

I've received quite a few positive responses for the upcoming Emerald Author Workshop to be held on 7 April from my departments - thank you for your enthusiasm!

I've also had numerous requests for more info on:

• the venue for the workshop
• the costs involved
• the amount of participants that can attend
• more information on what the workshop actually entails

Venue

The venue will only be finalised and communicated to me at the end of March, however, Eric Broug (Emerald Business Manager - Africa) indicated that due to the positive response of UJ we have quite a strong case to host it.

Costs

It's free!

Amount of participants that can attend

"I don’t have a maximum amount of attendees for the workshop, the more the merrier!" - Eric Broug's answer to this question.

More info

Although I do not know what Eric will be addressing specifically, I was able to find an Introduction to Emerald Author Workshops available on Emerald's database in the section dedicated to authors (and well worth a click.)

Here is what the introduction says:

The main part of the session is the presentation that includes:

• background information on Emerald
• what being published means to the author
• the people (editors, their advisors and reviewers, publishers and authors themselves) involved throughout the process
• advice for authors on preparing and submitting articles
• the review process in detail
• how to get involved with your publisher

It is common for the presentation and workshop to be tailored to the audience (particularly if it is to take place at a conference) or reflect the subject coverage of a journal or range of journals if an editor is to give the presentation. The presentation will always include a question and answer session; they have occasionally (where the presenter has experience of journal editing) featured a clinic for a handful of one-on-one consultations with students or delegates. We also supply a booklet - the "Author Workshop Resource" - for delegates to take away. This can also be customised to suit either audience or presenter and aims to back-up some points made in the presentation and broaden others.

I hope that this answers any immediate questions that has come up.

As always I will keep you informed of any change in detail or if more information becomes available.

Library Training for your students

Please remember that I am more than happy to provide Library group training for your undergraduate as well as honours students.

In these typically one hour-sessions I provide the students with an overview of:

• How to search for books
• Which databases are suitable for their subject area
• Using Bibliographic as well as Full Text databases
• Finding the full text article from a citation/reference/abstract
• Reference techniques
• RefWorks (if time permits and if asked for specifically)

If you have a specific topic that you would like me to focus on I am more than happy to do that.

As the Masters and especially the PhD students research are very topic specific it requires more intense research (from them) and Library training (from me), I prefer to train them in one-on-one sessions.

In the one-on-one sessions I cover all of the items mentioned above, but focus specifically on the individual topic the student has to research.

I also explain:

• the Interlibrary Loan process
• the Letters of Introduction allowing them access to other universities
• RefWorks

As mentioned these sessions are more intense in nature and usually takes up to an hour and a half to two hours.

To the right of this blog you will find my Office calender where I indicate the dates/times that I am already booked for training - please consult the calender when you plan to schedule Library training.

I look forward to seeing your students this year!

Enhancements @ RefWorks

General Enhancements
Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline Capabilities (Beta)
Windows users can now write and format a paper completely offline with this new version of Write-N-Cite. Simply download your RefWorks database from within Write-N-Cite while online, then feel free to disconnect from the internet. Click here for all the details from the online help section Working Offline.

Improved APA Bibliography Formatting
RefWorks is the first to automatically detect whether a reference has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or other electronic information and print the appropriate information in your bibliography when an APA output style is selected – meeting the new APA guidelines. To do this, RefWorks made changes to the Output Style Editor. Now when you create or modify an output style in RefWorks, there’s a new option in the Bibliography Settings area that allows you to Apply APA Rules for Electronic Source field inclusion. This option can be used in any output style. Here's how it works: When this option is selected, RefWorks will look for Digital Object Identifier (DOI) information for the reference and print that first. If there is no DOI in the reference, then the RefWorks will print the information in the Links field. If there is no DOI or Links information, RefWorks will print the Retrieved Date and Database information for a particular reference. Note: This setting only applies to references where the Source Type field is set to Electronic.

Automated Marking of Duplicate References for Deletion
When using the Exact Match or Close Match duplicate detection features, RefWorks now pre-selects (marks) for deletion the newest duplicate reference. Only one reference per matched references is selected (so if you have three versions of the same reference only the most recently added is pre-selected). This can help make the deletion of duplicate records even easier!

Improved RefGrab-It Results For PubMed and Amazon
RefGrab-It will now retrieve all the related articles for a record when looking at the detailed record view in PubMed. When used with Amazon, related books will also be included. This provides users with even more supplemental information to import directly into their RefWorks database.

Deleted References Folder
References deleted from your account are now automatically stored for 30 days in the Deleted References folder. This folder is accessible by selecting Folders, View, Deleted References from the toolbar. References can be restored to their original location in your database from within this folder. File attachments, RefShare comments and folder designation all remain until the reference is permanently deleted.

Miscellaneous Enhancements
Reference Type Name Change
The current reference type Journal has been changed to Journal Article to better reflect the type of information being cited.
Reorganized Help File
The online help file has been reorganized to make it easier to find and locate information. Topics have been consolidated into fewer, more logical groupings.

Emerald Author Workshop invitation

Diarise 7 April because Emerald’s Business Manager for Africa, Eric Broug will be visiting Johannesburg and will hold author workshops for lecturers, researchers and students. The idea is to focus on and encourage South African (aspiring) authors to submit articles for publication to their journals.

The workshops will be held either at WITS or here at UJ. A time/venue has not been discussed yet - I think Eric wants to test the response to this invitation

Emerald publishes in the following subject areas:
Accounting, finance & legal
Human resource management
Industry sector management
Innovation and enterprise
Information & knowledge management
International business
Library management and library studies
Management science, economics and social policy
Managing quality
Marketing
Operations management
Property and real estate
Strategy and general management

A full title list of all Emerald journals is available here. These workshops are not only for lecturers, but also for postgraduate students and staff who would like to venture into scholarly publishing.

I will give you more details as and when it becomes available closer to the date.

My new Email address

My email has finally been changed to reflect my married status - it's now sophievdw@uj.ac.za for Sophie van der Walt.

All emails sent to sophievn@uj.ac.za will be routed to the new address.

New Release: Harvard Business Essentials

HARVARD BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
Here is a series of books every manager should have on his/her bookshelf. The series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these books are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience.

Here are the 15 titles in the series:
Performance Management R230.00
Manager’s Toolkit R279.00
Decision Making R230.00
Finance for Managers R230.00
Creating Teams with an Edge R230.00
Power, Influence, and Persuasion R230.00
Managing Projects Large and Small R230.00
Managing Creativity and Innovation R230.00
Negotiation R230.00
Business Communication R230.00
Coaching and Mentoring R230.00
Managing Change and Transition R230.00
Crisis Management R230.00
Strategy R230.00
Entrepreneur’s Toolkit R279.00
Complete set R3298.00

How to order: Please fill in the white Book Order forms (available from me or Level 4 of the APK library); fill in the details: title, author, edition, publisher, ISBN, cost and for which campus library the book is to be ordered; ensure that the form is signed and then send it to Level 4 of the APK library for attention Denise Grobbelaar or Charlotte Pienaar.

New in THES this week

SA lecturer's 'freedom to criticise' verdict welcomed by UK
Melanie Newman
Academic freedom includes the right to criticise university managers, a High Court judge has ruled.
Although the case was heard in the South African courts, the ruling has been welcomed by UK campaigners, who argue that academics' right to question received wisdom must not be restricted to cover only their area of research expertise.
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2039630


Feedback must be top priority
Tariq Tahir
While student satisfaction overall is high, survey shows improvements are needed.
It is students' single biggest gripe, and universities are rapidly waking up to the fact that, if they want to enhance that all-important "student experience", their lecturers must provide better feedback.
The Higher Education Academy's assessment team has confirmed that it gets more requests for help to improve the system of feedback in universities than on any other issue.
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2039638

Next Week in THES:
In the new relaunched Times Higher Education: Are schools failing universities? Plus: A new research section including the latest grant winners and top citations

9th SA ONLINE INFORMATION MEETING 3-5 JUNE 2008

Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
The meeting provides a forum for the exchange of information on current developments, applications and opportunities in the expanding field of online information in the broadest sense. The aim is to provide an insight into the extent of growth and activity taking place in the information industry. Coverage will include not only the traditional online systems and services, but will extend to some of the newest areas of information transfer and exchange. SLIS and OSALL will also be contributing to this event in 2008.

Keynote speakers already confirmed include:
Derek Law - Head of the Information Resources Directorate, University of Strathclyde.
Geoff Hoy has been associated with UCT libraries for many years, and is now involved with TENET, the tertiary education network which is used by all tertiary academic institutions in South Africa.

Suggested Topics for Papers include (but is not limited to):
Web search
Federated search
Social networking & Global best practices
Taxonomies, folksonomies
Evidence-based librarianship
Information policy
Web site usability
Needs assessment
Collaborative working
Career development talks
Content Management
RSS Feeds
Embedded Librarian
Development and Compentency issues/skills
Web search engines
Planning next generation users
Disappearing mouse – touch screens/voice
Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration
Training and teaching
Internet resources
Managing e-resources
Mobile technology
Library 3.0
Distance learning, e-learning
Multimedia searching
Innovative projects
Incorporating new technologies Web design
Content management

Call for Papers: Whilst priority will be given to contributors on the suggested themes, presentations on other relevant topics will also be considered.
· Concise papers (20 minutes maximum) based on practical experience or practical applications of information technology are preferred. Supporting and supplementary detail may be included in the complete, written paper.
· If you wish to submit a paper, please submit your 250 word detailed abstract by no later that 14 March 2008.
· If your paper is provisionally accepted, you will be asked to submit the complete paper in machine readable format by 16 May 2008 at the latest.

For more information contact: (012) 331-3404 Cell: 082-7853510
E-mail: rdutoit@yebo.co.za
http://www.saoug.org.za/

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.