Journals now part of SAePublications

Enterprise Risk is now part of the SAePublications journal collections from the June 2007 issue to present.

Scope of the publication :
Enterprise Risk provides essential information to executive management to assist in identifying and measuring risk.

This magazine bridges the divide between the risk manager and the boardroom to enable informed decisions preventing or insuring against enterprise exposure.

The newest issue is Jan/Feb 2008:

1.Sugar and spice and all things nice : editor's note Authors: Van Reenen, Retha; Pages: 3
2.Corporate investment : is it worth the risk? Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 4-5, 7-9
3. Evaluating the next 5 years : internal auditing Pages: 10-11
4. Beware, risk ahead : insurance matters Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 12-13, 15-17
5. In the fine print : insurance matters Authors: Terrazas, Monique Pages: 18-19 Notes: Due to a large file size, this article (pdf) may take a while to download.
6. Business law in SA : how are we faring internationally? : legislation risk Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 20-23
7. Employment contract pitfalls : legal update Authors: Venter, A.J Pages: 24-25
8. Keep it rolling : business continuity Pages: 28-29
9. Estate duty implications for investors : investment column Authors: Goodall, Brian; Pages: 30-31, 33, 35
10. Unfolding the future : economic risk Authors: Terraraz, Monique
11.Investigating the USB flash drive : information technology Authors: Mudeliar, Thumeshni; Pages: 40-41, 43
12.Under the spotlight : disaster risk strategies : disaster management Authors: Terraraz, Monique Pages: 44-45
13.A cableless existence : case study Pages: 46-47
14.Improving on our successes : president's message Authors: Haman, Reginald Pages: 48
15.Fighting HIV / Aids internally : editor's comment Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 3
16.Risk absorption by medical aids : HIV / AIDS Authors: Van Reenen, RethaPages: 4-7
17.A reputable reputation : reputation risk Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 8-9
18.Can SA business combat HIV / AIDS? : business insight Authors: O'Sullivan, Steven Pages: 10-13
19.The ombudsman : your partner in need : insurance matters Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 14-17
20.Plotting your way through HIV / AIDS : business continuity Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 18-19, 21
21. Stay in business by adapting a learning culture Authors: Geyser, Yolande Pages: 22-23
22.How to manage outsourced resources effectively : cost-effective outsourcing Authors: Geyser, Yolande Pages: 24-25, 27
23.How to screen your directors : corporate governance Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 28-31
24.Edifying morality : corporate governance Authors: Furter, Edmond Pages: 32-35
25.HIV/AIDS battle strategy : corporate governance Authors: Furter, Edmund Pages: 37
26.In the dark : Eskom vs. Ekurhuleni : legal update Authors: Terrazas, MoniquePages: 38-40
27.Duties everywhere : legal update Authors: Vivian, Robert W. Pages: 42-45
28. A dog's breakfast : Royal Canin : case study on reputation risk Authors: Terrazas, Monique; Pages: 46-47
29. President's message : governance, ethics and risk Authors: Winks, Steve, Pages: 48


Taxtalk now forms part of the SAePublication journal collection as well.

Scope of the publication :
TAXtalk has been one of the premier suppliers of tax-related information to the South African taxpayer since its establishment in 2002. TAXtalk is the appointed journal of The SAIT (South African Institute of Tax Practitioners) The concept behind this informative multi-media tax forum is to empower South African taxpayers, both corporate and individual.


Publication details :
6 issues per year

Currently Issue 8 Nov/Dec 2007 is available:

1. A word from the top : cover story Authors: Connor, Janine Pages: 1
2. Readers' forum Authors: Krause, Steven; Pages: 3
3. SAIT : a haven for tax Authors: Klue, Stiaan; Pages: 4-5
4. A global evolution of indirect taxes Pages: 6
5. Putting a sparkle into spending Pages: 8
6. Watershed judgment on working papers Pages: 10
7. Summaries of the interviews broadcast on Summit TV. Pages: 11-12
8. Nifty little tool to calculate tax Pages: 13
9. Certainty on private equity tax : a reality at long last Authors: Lister-James, Chris; Pages: 14-15
10. The 7 habitual tax mistakes and their solutions Authors: Goertz, Gavin Pages: 16, 18

New Open Access Journal Collection - from Sabinet

Welcome to the beta version of Sabinet's Full Open Access Journal Collection.

The collection currently comprises 44 South African journals and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles.

The journals are individually searchable. The coverage per journal varies, with some journals having full-text issues available from 2000 onwards.
Of the journals in the collection, 14 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list. These include: Meditari, SAJIM and the South African Business Review.
New journal titles and issues are added to the collection on an ongoing basis. Some journals also contain metadata records (including abstracts) for older articles where full text is not available.

Publishers who would like to make their journals available as Open Access journals, are welcome to contact Sabinet.

New issue: The Accountant

The new edition to the Professional Accountant is available via SAePublications.

1. Accounting for SMEs - sunshine or still dawn? Authors: Rossouw, Cobus
2. Security for the costs of litigation Authors: Williams, R.C. (Bob);
3. Avoidance closure alert : - funnel financing masquerades
4. Financial reporting supply chain Authors: Lyle, Norman
5. The finer points of Taxable Gross Income Authors: Desmond, Tim
6. Consumer Rights are Human Rights!!!!
7. Research shows the global economy is still solid
8. Credit bureaux must help consumers - it is the law!!!
9. Order your SAIPA Tax Guide 2008/9 today Authors: Bester, Stanton
10. Industrial accounting Authors: Bentley, Roger
11. Business consulting - adding value or an expensive resource? Authors: Swanepoel, Boetie
12. Predictability builds trust Authors: Scheepbouwer, Marc
13. Make early provision for retirement funds upon sale of a business Authors: Gera, David
14. The future of micro-insurance regulation in South Africa
15. SAIPA National Convention - 15-17 October, 2008

Accounting & Finance journal

Now Internationally Accredited

Accounting & Finance is now included in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Congratulations to the editorial team, reviewers and authors for this great achievement. The journal will receive a 2009 impact factor which will be released in 2010.

Extra issue published in 2008!

Accounting & Finance will be publishing a 5th issue this year. The extra issue will be published in print and online in December.

2nd Annual Anti-Money Laundering in Financial Institutions Conference

The 2nd Annual Anti-Money Laundering in Financial Institutions Conference will be held on 12th-13th June 2008 in Barcelona.

Join this two-day five star exciting forum and have your questions answered by industry practitioners and experts on money laundering prevention. Hear the practical case studies on how they tackle day-to-day issues linked to AML. Participate actively in the interactive roundtable discussions and benefit from networking sessions with your industry peers to make this event an excellent learning opportunity.

Key topics:

* Trends and future outlook in Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
* 3rd Directive - what is implemented, what remains to be done
* The risk of not managing the risk in AML
* Risk based approach and its impact on KYC, PEPs ,UBO
* AML risk as a part of enterprise-wide risk management
* The effectiveness of AML systems
* Global vs. local approach – is there one size that fits all for a global company?
* Regulator’s panel

Key Speakers:
Zurich Financial Services, Head of Global AML, Switzerland
Société Générale, Head of Global Due Diligence, France
AXA, Anti-Money Laundering Policy Adviser, UK
Banque Federale des Banques Populaires, Head Group AML CFT Compliance, France
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Director of UK Chapter, UK
The Bank of New York Mellon, Vice President Legacy BNY Group MLRO, UK
ING Bank, Director of the Department of Operating Risk Management, Poland

For further information please contact: Sherisse Shelton - Smith (sherisse.shelton-smith@jacobfleming.com).

New RefWorks features just released!

RefWorks has just released three new features:

1. Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline Capabilities
This means that you can not use W-N-C without being connected to the Internet. Simply download your RefWorks database from within Write-N-Cite while online, then feel free to disconnect from the Internet.
Full Write-N-Cite functionality is available – inserting temporary citation placeholders, viewing reference information, using the citation editor – even formatting your paper in the output style you choose.
Download the new Write-N-Cite III for Windows from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

2. Write-N-Cite v2.5 for Mac
This Write-N-Cite for Mac version 2.5 works with Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and the Leopard operating system and has the same features as the current Write-N-Cite for Mac (citation editing, two document format, etc.).
Download the new version from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

3. Attachment Feature
Now it’s even easier to store your research documents along with your references! RefWorks has made it’s attachment feature available to all users at UJ and each user receive 100 MB of default storage space each. You can attach any type of file – the only requirement is that you have the software necessary to view the attachment.
For information on how to attach files to references, see the online help section Adding References Manually or review the RefWorks Basics tutorial section Entering References Manually.

New Books!

I've emailed you all the list of the newest books I've received for each department.

Due the large amount of new books I have received in the last few weeks, I will keep them at my desk only until Friday 9 May, where after they will be shelved.

If you would like to have a look at some of the books, please let me know and I will keep them for you at my desk.

South African Reserve Bank Release of Selected Monthly Data

The following publication has been added to the - Statistical & economic info - area of the South African Reserve Bank website.
Title: Monthly Release of Selected Data
For period ending March 2008

Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

The following publication has been added to the - Statistical & economic info - area of the South African Reserve Bank website.
Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

Data in this template cover the short-term foreign currency assets of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and of the Central Government of South Africa. A wider definition was used up to December 2005.

See the Note on the redefinition of gold and other foreign reserves in the balance of payments in the South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, December 2005, p. 56-59.

NetLibrary eBook of the month

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
by George Soros PublicAffairs, 2008
George Soros, the legendary financier, philanthropist and bestselling author, has written a new book on the current financial crisis that will be available as the NetLibrary eBook of the Month selection for May.
Print editions of this thought-provoking new work will not be released until May 19.

In The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, Soros explores the origins of the current financial crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.
"This is the worst financial crisis since the 1930s," writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centers around the world.

Higher Education News

Highlights of The Chronicle include:

PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PEER REVIEW The National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars to evaluate grant applications.

TALES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars.

PEER REVIEW: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gets a permanent leader ... The University of California at Irvine's engineering school hires a climate expert as its new dean ... Bruce Shepard is the new president of Western Washington University ... A new chancellor steps in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
HACKING BACK College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
GOLD MINES OF INFORMATION Vast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use.

LINKED IN WITH: Kelly Sutton, a founder of a student-run blog about improving lives through technology.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says.

MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Two administrators from West Virginia University have stepped down in the wake of a transcript scandal, but the president's job seems secure.

WHAT THEY THINK: Most college financial officers expect tuition increases to continue outpacing inflation.

Times Higher Education

Clocking on Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story?
Journals test software to catch cheats Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. Universities across the UK monitor students' work using Turnitin, a program that assesses the originality of assignments.Now a new program based on the same technology is being developed to apply similar high-tech scrutiny to research papers.
Engaging with students’ spirituality Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all

On Leave

I will be on leave from the 25th of April to the 5th of May.

Enjoy the long weekend(s)!

Open Science Directory: New Open Access Initiative for Developing Countries

EBSCO has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to develop a global Open Science Directory which is available via the Internet at no charge.

The Open Science Directory provides developing regions with a comprehensive search tool for all open access and special programme journal titles.

The Open Science Directory offers immediate access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.
Access to scientific literature is very important for the scientific work in developing countries. As a result of different projects a large collection of e-journals is now available for researchers in developing countries. The number of Open Access Journals is growing steadily as we can see in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The Open Science Directory is creating a unique access point to all the journals contained in the different programs.
Searching Options:
From the home page, click on Open Science Directory . The Portal is an A-to-Z journals list (like UJ's A-to-Z list)

You can either search directly for specific journals

OR

* Select - Journal Collections
to view all Providers of the Journals, with links to the title lists
* Select - Subjects
to view the journals per specific subject area (Economics & Finance journals can be found in under Social Sciences)
* Select - Search
to view the Advanced search screen
* Select - Custom Google Search
to search either Scholar Google (academic articles) or Google Custom Search (Search in: DOAJ - OpenDOAR - HINARI - OARE - AGORA - INASP - eJDS - Ingenta Connect)
* Select - Links
to have access to journals portals, useful websites to different organisations
* Select - About the Site
to view more information about this site

Once you access the journal of interest, there is an option to search within this journal for articles.

New & Free Databases from EbscoHost

Everybody likes to get something for free and here at the Library we're no exception! That's why we're excited about Ebsco's free databases that are available.



GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.

Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

I've done a quick search for: environmental economics and found 700 + articles.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)
Topics includes online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Teacher Reference Center
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.

Topics include key education issues such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

This free database features:

• Index browse functionality
• Indexing and abstracts for more than 260 periodicals
• Indexing for 1,300 book chapters
• 96% of the journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed

I've done a quick search for: ACCOUNTING -- Study & teaching and retrieved over 90 results.

New copyright blog @ UJ

Our copyright officer - Thapelo Mashishi - has just launched his new UJ Copyright Blog .
The blog will provide UJ academic staff with copyright & IP information as it relates to the University and educational environment in general.

You can already find links here to:

• Conference alerts
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons South Africa
• IFLANET
• Open Review of the SA Copyright Act
• Science Commons

Regional Monetary Policy Forum meetings in Gauteng

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will be hosting the first round of regional Monetary Policy Forum (MPF) meetings in May 2008.

Monetary policy has an impact on everybody. The main objective of the MPF meetings is to enhance the transparency of the Bank’s monetary policy decision-making process and accountability to the public. The meetings provide a platform for public discussions on monetary policy and general economic developments.

The Bank targets civic and community organisations, academic institutions, professional fraternities, the labour movement, the business community, Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises, national and provincial governments and legislatures, and general members of the public who have an interest in economic developments.

For bookings please contact the following people:
Gauteng
13 May 2008
Yolanda Padayachee
Te;: (012) 313 3195

Email: yolanda.padayachee@resbank.co.za

Statement of the Monetary Policy Committee - 10 April

Issued by Mr T T Mboweni, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank

Introduction
The South African economy continues to respond to the less accommodative monetary policy stance. Domestic expenditure is responding to our current policy settings. Various high frequency and survey data point to the economy growing at a rate below potential, but nevertheless underpinned to some extent by strong investment expenditure by the private sector and public corporations.

The inflation outlook is being influenced by a series of supply-side shocks emanating from the international oil and food prices which are posing challenges for inflation-targeting countries in general. Domestically, there is evidence of generalised price pressures and the prospect of further substantial electricity price increases will also delay the return to within the inflation target range. In the light of these developments, inflation expectations have deteriorated.

Recent developments in inflation
CPIX inflation has maintained its upward trend, reaching 9,4 per cent in February 2008. Petrol and food prices were again the main drivers of inflation and increased at year-on-year rates of 29,5 per cent and 14,3 per cent respectively. If food and energy prices were excluded, CPIX inflation would have measured 5,6 per cent. Further impetus to inflation came from the change in methodology for calculating clothing and footwear prices. Whereas clothing and footwear prices were previously shown to have declined persistently since October 2003, these prices increased at year-on-year rates of 7,9 per cent and 8,4 per cent in January and February 2008 respectively. Year-on-year producer price inflation measured 11,3 per cent in February compared to 10,4 per cent in January. Agricultural food prices increased at a year-on-year rate of 23,5 per cent in February, while manufactured food prices increased by 20,9 per cent.


For the full version please click here.

New feature of blog

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com
I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and choose opt-out.

New interface for JSTOR

JSTOR has recently revamped their interface, added new features and updated existing ones:

New features:

MyJSTOR
"MyJSTOR" is the first step in providing greater personal customization for users throughout the site. With this first release, users can:

• manage citations over time by saving them to a MyJSTOR account, where they can be stored indefinitely.
• Users will need to create an account in order to save or send citations, as well as to save them to bibliographic software. Remember this if you use RefWorks
• accept JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use once, rather than being prompted to respond with each article print or download

See also: Tutorials, MyJSTOR Help

Searching JSTOR
Basic Search
Basic searches, which search the full-text of all journals, can be entered directly from the home page by authorized users. Basic searches can be limited by discipline.

Advanced Search
Searches can be limited by selecting discipline(s) or specific journal titles, or by directly entering a specific title into the form.
Proximity search is now available in the Advanced Search form, using NEAR 5, NEAR 10, NEAR 25 operators in the Boolean pull-down menus.

Basic and Advanced Searches
Searches from an individual session are saved, and they can be rerun from a drop down menu at the bottom of each of these search forms.
Users are able to search for both the singular and plural versions of a word by adding an ampersand (&) to the end of the singular form of the word. Plurals now identify both regular (cat/cats) and irregular (knife/knives) plural forms.
Users have the option to apply stemming to their search by appending the "#" character at the end of their search term, e.g., "operate#".
The "Images in JSTOR" and "Images in ARTstor" tabs appear in the results from all search forms.

Search Results
The "search within these results" feature allows users to run a new search that restricts the content being searched to the results of their most recent search.
See: Searching Help

Article Page Viewing
Thumbnail images of articles make it easier to see articles at a glance and to select pages within articles.

Simplified Printing and Viewing of Article PDF Files
JSTOR now offers articles in a single, improved format of PDF for printing.
The PDF versions of articles provide bookmarks for easier navigation, both throughout the article as well as the entire issue.
NOTE: JPRINT, the printing application created specifically for printing JSTOR files, is no longer available or supported.
See: Printing Help

Top 25 Hottest Articles - ScienceDirect

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

October - December 2007

Every 3 months ScienceDirect distributes a list of the Top 25 Hottest articles published with in a specific subject area. Here is the newest list available for Economics, Econometrics & Finance for the time period: Oct - Dec 2007.

(For some reason Accounting articles are grouped with Business & Management - for the list of hottest articles that include Accounting please click here.)

Asymmetric stock market volatility and the cyclical behavior of expected returns • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 446-478 Mele, A.

Productivity-based asset pricing: Theory and evidence • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 405-445 Balvers, R.J.; Huang, D.

Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? • Article World Development, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 April 2004, Pages 567-589 Wade, R.H. Cited by Scopus (48)

Australian gold exploration 1976-2003 • Article Resources Policy, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 March 2005, Pages 29-37 Huleatt, M.B.; Jaques, A.L.Cited by Scopus (3)

Market efficiency, long-term returns, and behavioral finance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 September 1998, Pages 283-306 Fama, E.F.Cited by Scopus (366)

The theory and practice of corporate finance: evidence from the field • Article

Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2001, Pages 187-243 Graham, J.R.; Harvey, C.R.Cited by Scopus (187)

Exploration and discovery of Australia's copper, nickel, lead and zinc resources 1976-2005 • Article Resources Policy, Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 September 2005, pages 168-185 Jaques, A.L.; Huleatt, M.B.; Ratajkoski, M.; Towner, R.R.Cited by Scopus (1)

Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 405-440 Healy, P.M.; Palepu, K.G.Cited by Scopus (150)

The two sides of proximity in industrial clusters: The trade-off between process and product innovation • Article Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 63, Issue 1, 1 January 2008, Pages 146-162 Callois, J.M.

Investor protection and corporate governance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1-2, 1 January 2000, Pages 3-27 La Porta, R.; Lopez-de-Silanes, F.; Shleifer, A.; Vishny, R.Cited by Scopus (271)

Why do countries matter so much for corporate governance? • Article

Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 1, 1 October 2007, Pages 1-39 Doidge, C.; Andrew Karolyi, G.; Stulz, R.M.Cited by Scopus (1)

Economic consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 • Article

Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, 1 September 2007, Pages 74-115

Zhang, I.X.

Private equity, leveraged buyouts and governance • Article Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 September 2007, Pages 439-460 Cumming, D.; Siegel, D.S.; Wright, M.

The curse of natural resources • Article European Economic Review, Volume 45, Issue 4-6, 1 May 2001, Pages 827-838 Sachs, J.D.; Warner, A.M.Cited by Scopus (100)

Strategy, performance measurement techniques and information technology of the firm and their links to organizational performance • Article Management Accounting Research, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2007, Pages 343-366 Hyvonen, J.Cited by Scopus (2)

The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs • Article

Journal of Health Economics, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 March 2003, Pages 151-185 DiMasi, J.A.; Hansen, R.W.; Grabowski, H.G.Cited by Scopus (490)

Can generalized distribution factors lead to''objective''transmission toll allocations? Some lessons from the recent Chilean experience • Article

Energy Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, 1 March 2008, Pages 249-270 Galetovic, A.; Palma-Behnke, R.

How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? • Article Journal of International Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, 1 June 1998, Pages 115-135 Borensztein, E.; De Gregorio, J.; Lee, J.-W.Cited by Scopus (238)

Capital markets research in accounting • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 105-231 Kothari, S.P.Cited by Scopus (125)

Monitoring: Which institutions matter? • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 279-305 Chen, X.; Harford, J.; Li, K.

A study on motivating employees'learning commitment in the post-downsizing era: Job satisfaction perspective • Article Journal of World Business, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 June 2007, Pages 157-169 Tsai, P.C.F.; Yen, Y.F.; Huang, L.C.; Huang, I.C.Cited by Scopus (1)

Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument • Article Journal of Development Economics, Volume 84, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 755-776 Easterly, W.Cited by Scopus (1)

The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It • Article

World Development, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 April 2003, Pages 667-683 Milanovic, B.Cited by Scopus (40)

Performance measurement impacts on management and leadership: Perspectives of management and employees • Article International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 110, Issue 1-2, 1 October 2007, Pages 39-51 Ukko, J.; Tenhunen,J.; Rantanen, H.

Asymmetric timeliness of earnings, market-to-book and conservatism in financial reporting • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, 1 September 2007, Pages 2-31 Roychowdhury, S.; Watts, R.L.

Thank you

Thank you to everybody attending the Emerald Author Workshop - I trust that it will serve as inspiration and stimulus for you own publishing career!

Welcome back!

Welcome back to you all - I trust that you have a restful recess and that the new semester will hold great promise!

Emerald Author Guidelines

Emerald offers a series of Author Guidelines

(similar to the ones I've distributed at the Author Workshop on Monday 7th April) available online offering practical tips and guidance on how to get your work published and maximize dissemination from Emerald, the world's leading publisher of management research..
It is available to Emerald subscribers. To subscribe please register on the Emerald website once you've entered it via the Library's databases.
Here is what to expect as well as the links to the guidelines:

How to... write a case study

A case study involves focusing on a set of issues in some contemporary setting, usually but not exclusively an organization, or perhaps a department or sector of an organization. It may use just one case or a number of cases linked together by a theme. Because of its real-world setting, it is a powerful tool of analysis, and one that obviously chimes in with Emerald's concern to disseminate implications for practice. It is particularly good at addressing "how" and "why" questions.

How to... write for a practitioner audience

If you are an academic, then you have good job-related reasons to want to publish: your job and your promotion depends upon your keeping up your publishing profile in quality scholarly journals. If you are a practising manager, however, writing for publication is not part of your job and can seem much less important than keeping up with your targets and the inevitable fire-fighting. This guide aims to explain the benefits of publishing to practising managers and to give advice on how to publish successfully.

How to... write a literature review

A literature review is a description of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic. It gives an overview of what has been said, who the key writers are, what are the prevailing theories and hypotheses, what questions are being asked, and what methods and methodologies are appropriate and useful. As such, it is not in itself primary research, but rather it reports on other findings.

How to... find the right journal

Finding the right journal is as important to the publishing process as is having something original to say and saying it well. Many journal editors claim that a good proportion of their rejections happen not because manuscripts are of insufficient quality, but because they are inappropriate for the journal's objectives. As ever, it is easier (and usually leads to a more successful outcome) if you address these issues as early as possible.

How to... write an abstract

An abstract is a succinct summary of a longer piece of work, usually academic in nature, which is published in isolation from the main text and should therefore stand on its own and be understandable without reference to the longer piece. It should report the latter's essential facts, and should not exaggerate or contain material that is not there. Its purpose is to act as a reference tool (for example in a library abstracting service) and, more importantly, to enable the reader to decide whether or not to read the full text. It is your opportunity to gain readership and citation.

How to... use the Harvard reference system

The Harvard reference system, also known as the author-date system, is Emerald's approved system of citing other works. Articles submitted to Emerald are required to use this system. This guide explains how and where to use references within the text of your article and how to compile the reference list at the end. We also look at some of the software tools that are available to simplify these tasks.

How to... structure your article

According to one survey on why articles fail to get published in economics journals, there are two main reasons. Either the paper does not make, or does not demonstrate that it makes, a contribution to knowledge or the paper is badly organized, with the parts not fitting together to form a coherent whole. These two factors, which rated more highly in this survey than targeting the wrong journal, both relate to the paper's structure. Papers that are well structured will have a logical organization with a beginning, a middle and an end, and above all a sense of purpose which communicates itself to the reader, will motivate him or her to continue reading in the belief that the author is making a contribution to knowledge.

How to... write more simply

Reviewers of academic papers often point out that the language is unnecessarily obscure and obtuse. The reviewer or editor feels there is a good point in there somewhere, but it is not easy for the reader to find. In contrast, good English is economical and spares redundant words. In Lost for Words: The Use and Abuse of the English Language, John Humphrys describes the qualities of good English: "... clear, simple, plain and unambiguous ... free of jargon, although there will be exceptions. It should be easy to read and listen to rather than a chore. At the very least it should not make our tongues fur up". This guide provides suggestions on how you can make sure your style is as clear as possible.

How to... prepare papers if English is not your first language

Preparing and writing an academic article for publication in an English language journal is a daunting experience for anyone, but particularly so if your first language is not English. This guide gives you some support with preparing articles in a non-native tongue. It is not possible to give specific advice about English, because teaching English as a foreign language is a highly specialized area requiring a great deal of skill. However, we will provide general advice on writing articles and list some useful resources including editing services.

How to... proofread your work

As far as writing an article for publication is concerned, we are talking about authors proofreading before it goes to production. In many ways, it is more like copy-editing, which is about close attention to the detail of the script, reading at sentence level to make sure there is nothing that can detract from accuracy and clarity, be it errors of grammar, inconsistency, spelling, or punctuation. "If a paper is not carefully checked, then it looks not just sloppy, but as though the author does not care. So why should anyone else?" (John Peters, Emerald CEO and editor of Management Decision).

How to... survive peer review and revise your paper

What gives being published in a journal especial credibility is that other experts have read the work and deemed it acceptable. The peer review process is therefore what gives the journal in which you have chosen to place your article, and your paper if you have done the necessary revisions, a quality control stamp. This guide offers advice on minimizing the chances of having to revise your work by getting it right in the first place, to a practical example of carrying out your own peer review.

How to... collaborate on writing an article

Many Emerald articles result from collaboration. Reasons for this include the: increasing importance of publication for tenure, promotion and satisfying the UK Research Assessment Exercise; tendency towards large, multidisciplinary projects; nature of research funding; pressure for PhD students to get out publications even before their PhD is approved; and greater ease afforded by electronic means of communication. This guide focuses on authorship and dissemination issues arising from collaborative research (issues concerning setting up a large research project team are covered in our Research Zone). This guide is based on the experiences of several authors from three continents.

How to... promote your work

A good promotions strategy will increase the impact of your work by getting more people to read your article, improving your citation ratings, and ensuring that your work becomes more widely known both within your academic and practitioner community and outside it. It will also help disseminate the practical and policy-related implications of your work to those who can implement it. This guide concentrates on strategies that will help you and your colleagues make your articles, as well as the wider research on which they are based, better known. If you are working as part of a research centre or larger research programme with major funding, then you will need to talk to your partners and your funding body about developing a proper communications strategy.

How to... write a book review

Book reviews are a special form of academic writing. They have well-known structures with familiar components. Here, James Hartley of the School of Psychology, Keele University, UK, consults with academics on writing the perfect book review and presents a potential checklist for book reviewers.

Trial Database: World Competitiveness Centre Online

I am are very pleased to announce that we have a one-month trial access to World Competitiveness Online.

Please use the User name and Password I sent in my email to you.

Both the user name and password are case sensitive. The access will be available until March 24 and is restricted to the users of our Library.

World Competitiveness Online is unique to:
- Analyze a country’s competitiveness performance over time
- Select a group of countries to benchmark, display just the data you need
- Download the results in Excel or PDF for your own research
- ”My Rankings”: choose some criteria of special interest to you, for example on health, or intellectual property and construct your own index
- For an optimal use of the software, World Competitive Online recommends that you use Internet Explorer, allowing Java script and pop up windows

Please give me feedback on whether or not you think this could be a valuable asset to yourself and your students.