Citation Indices
December 3rd, 2009
Major databases to look for citations include:
Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)
SCOPUS
Google Scholar
The ResearchID website is also a good way to collect author citations. SCImago journal & country rank is another database that can be reviewed.
The Web of Science database not only allows a researcher to search for their own publications and how many times each [...]
Statistics Texts
April 8th, 2009
Alan T., a fantastic statistics lecturer from Macquarie University, kindly recommended to outstanding statistics texts to me:
“Statistical methods for psychology” by David C. Howell, and
“Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences” by James P. Stevens.
Both of these were written with such clarity and insightfulness - they are actually statistics texts I will return to again [...]
Research databases
April 7th, 2009
Today the presenter at a research seminarĀ explained the difference between research databases offered by theĀ Macquarie University library. Publisher databases like Informaworld, Science Direct, Sage and Informit were preferred over secondary databases due to their speed and reliability. As well, viewing results of searches in HTML rather than PDF format had the advantage of [...]
Professor Piet Kommers - a great deal of valuable work
March 9th, 2009
Professor Piet Kommers has done a great deal of work in the area of technology based learning. His wesite can be found at
http://users.edte.utwente.nl/kommers/
ARROW Discovery Service
February 19th, 2009
An important resource for any researcher is the ARROW Discovery Service has hundreds of thousands of Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. The ARROW Discovery Service searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories. See http://search.arrow.edu.au/
First Post - Link to my thesis
February 10th, 2009
This is my first post! I just received news that a permanent link to my thesis “Designing for Interactive and Collaborative Learning in a Web-conferencing Environment” has just become available at:
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/26888
It is nice to be out there. If you would like to comment on this thesis I’d value your feedback.