I'm pleased to announce that we have trial access to The Economist Historical Archive (1843-2003) from today until 8th February.

The contents includes editorial, advertising and tabular matter all fully searchable.

To access The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 please click here. You will be asked to enter your name, institution and email address to gain access to the trial.

Features and benefits of The Economist Historical Archive includes:

• Authoritative ˜leaders" (editorials), news coverage, commentaries and letters on British, American and world politics and business


• Special surveys and supplements on Countries and Industries


• Renowned sections including 'Science and Technology'


• Classified and display advertising profiling major companies, job opportunities, etc


• Detailed topic search, facsimile pages, hit-term highlighting


• Searchable 'covers gallery'


• Searchable financial data. Key economic indicators post-1983 available in exportable format

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Faulty URL linkages from your Alerts

We are currently experiencing some problems with faulty links to articles from the database alerts that are emailed to you (if you've registered for them)

While we are waiting for the databases to fix the faulty links to articles, there is a way of manually fixing the URL to retrieve the article.

This can be useful for if you want to include links on web pages or Library Live or Edulink

You need to insert the UJ code into the article URL.

The code is in 2 parts: one part (0-) comes directly after the http:// and the other (ujlink.uj.ac.za) comes directly before the first stroke /


So you need to change this:
https://apkmail.uj.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://web.ebscohost.com./ehost/detail?vid=2%26hid=12%26sid=38613024-f154-4a9c-8d09-4abfd1bdfd1c%2540sessionmgr7

To this:
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=12&sid=38613024-f154-4a9c-8d09-4abfd1bdfd1c%40sessionmgr7

Do not change anything else in the URL, only insert the coding.

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. Emerald 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!

Enhancement & Changes to 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 book titles from Springer

Internal Audit Handbook

Management with the SAP®-Audit Roadmap
Kagermann, H.; Kinney, W.; Küting, K.; Weber, C.-P. (Eds.) 2008, XXVIII, 608 p. 111 illus. in color., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-70886-5

Related subjects
Accounting & Auditing
Business for Professionals

Requirements Management

The Interface Between Requirements Development and All Other Systems Engineering Processes

Hood, C., Wiedemann, S., Fichtinger, S., Pautz, U.
2008, XII, 275 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-47689-4

Related Springer journals
Requirements Engineering
Related subjects
Business for Professionals
Business Information Systems
Programming, SWE & Operating Systems

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

How to get to the Full Text of an article

If you find in the databases/Internet 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 UJ library list of database
* 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 name 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

Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) reports ...

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) .

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.

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

Get published in Asian Economic Journal

Asian Economic Journal
Journal of the East Asian Economic Association
Published on behalf of the East Asian Economic Association
Edited by:
Shigeyuki Abe and Yun-Wing SungManaging

Editors: Kai-Sun Kwong and Colin McKenzie

Asian Economic Journal provides detailed coverage of a wide range of topics in economics relating to East Asia, including investigation of current research, international comparisons and country studies. It is a forum for debate amongst theorists, practitioners and researchers and publishes high quality theoretical, empirical and policy orientated contributions.
Asian Economic Journal facilitates the exchange of information among researchers on a world-wide basis and offers a unique opportunity for economists to keep abreast of research on economics pertaining to East Asia.

The Asian Economic Journal is published on behalf of The East Asian Economic Association .

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. 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: Plagiarim 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/

Survey of Capital Expenditure and Profit

The following publication has been added to the Statistical & economic information area of the South African Reserve Bank website.

Title: Survey of capital expenditure and profit
Quarter ended: 30 September 2007

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 Accounting, Sport & 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 websites.

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 pane of this blog.