Thursday 21 April 2011

MyRi (Measuring your Research impact)

An Open Access toolkit to support bibliometrics training and awareness
http://www.ndlr.ie/myri/index.html
A collaborative project of four Irish academic libraries producing a set of materials to support bibliometrics training.
The project was funded by the Irish NDLR.
All materials are available on Open Access under Creative Commons license, enabling you to select, edit and re-package them to suit your local needs. More about the project...

Friends of Medieval Dublin 13th Annual Symposium

http://fmrsi.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/event-friends-of-medieval-dublin-13th-medieval-dublin-symposium-21-may-2011/

DEATH & DYING

THIRTIETH IRISH CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS

http://irishconferenceofhistorians.com/

The appropriateness of key performance indicators to research in arts and humanities disciplines.

 Ireland’s contribution to the European Debate from the Royal Irish Academy http://www.ria.ie/our-work/policy/research-assessment.aspx

Legal Rights of University Contract Workers

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0418/1224294912578.html
2010 SCOPUS News

New Titles on Safari

http://proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com/whatsnew

Research evaluation should be pragmatic, not a choice between peer review and metrics

Responding to the growing momentum of movements, such as DORA and CoARA, Giovanni Abramo argues for a more nuanced balance between the use o...