University Library Update 8 University CONTENTS ELISE Rising impact of…

University Library Update 8
University
CONTENTS
ELISE
Rising impact of Chinese science
ERA
Research Impact Measurement Service
UNSW Subject Guides
Changes to Reservations
Some interesting statistics for July 2008
Product information

ELISE
Appropriate and efficient use of scholarly information is vital to academic success.

The ELISE online tutorial was created to introduce commencing students to the scholarly information landscape
to maximise their academic potential and provide a common understanding of how to find, use and evaluate
essential information, whether in print or online.

Completing the ELISE tutorial, and achieving a pass in the ELISE quiz, is mandatory for all new undergraduate
students, including students at COFA and University College (ADFA) A S2 version of ELISE is available for the
538 S2 commencing students. To date only 55% of these have successfully completed the ELISE quiz. Emails
will be sent to all Associate Deans (Education) and Presiding members identifying those students yet to
complete the quiz.

ELISE can be accessed from the Library web page at http://info.library.unsw.edu.au or My eLearning at
http://vista.elearning.unsw.edu.au

Further information about ELISE is available on myUNSW at
https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/ELISE.html

RISING IMPACT OF CHINESE SCIENCE
China's recent dramatic increase in scientific publishing indicates an increasing prominence in world science.

Thomson Reuters National Science Indicators illustrate this trend, with the number of papers in the database
increasing from approximately 3,700 in 1985 to 80,000 in 2007. In fact, not only has China overtaken Japan in
publishing output, it now ranks second only to the United States by number of papers published during 2007.

Thomson's indicators also show that in both 2006 and 2007, China had over 500 high impact papers indexed
in comparison to only 73 in 1998. According to Essential Science Indicators, the most-cited paper in the last 10
years exclusively featuring authors based in the People's Republic of China is "Coronavirus as a possible cause
of severe acute respiratory syndrome," by J.S.M. Peiris and colleagues, Lancet, 361(9366): 1319-25, 2003; this
paper has now been cited nearly 900 times.

To read more go to ScienceWatch.com

ERA
Draft Pilot Submission Guidelines for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) have been released. Their
purpose is to provide an overview of, and specify the content and data requirements for, submissions to the ERA
Pilot. They also provide guidance to higher education providers on policy and practical matters in preparing
submissions.

The ERA will undertake evaluations of research in Australian institutions in each of eight clusters of disciplines.
Disciplines are defined as four digit Fields of Research (FoR). A pilot is being run to facilitate the sector's
feedback on the ERA Submission Guidelines and to ensure that the process and technology operate
appropriately. The pilot will run using the Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences Discipline cluster.
RESEARCH IMPACT MEASUREMENT SERVICE
From Week 7, the Library will be offering a streamlined H Index service which provides a numerical H index
only, rather than providing the full backing data used to calculate the index.

The actual process by which the H-Index is calculated remains unchanged although the delivery timeframe will
be considerably shortened, as the calculation is done without reformatting the substantial quantities of backing
data. This may prove to be popular as many academics are primarily concerned with the `score' and are
working to tight deadlines.

Turnaround time for the new calculation will initially be one week with the aim to eventually improve to 48
hours. The current H index work delivered with all contributing data will continue to be available, but
significant lead times for delivery will remain.

UNSW SUBJECT GUIDES
UNSW Subject Guides are the first step in locating the most appropriate information for assignments or research.

UNSW Library is currently developing subject guides in a new updated style. New subject guides currently
available include Medicine, Psychology, Business, Engineering, Criminal Justice & Criminology and Public
Health & Community Medicine as well as guides to finding Standards, Patents and Australian statistics (ABS). A
range of new look Subject Guides in other subject areas such as Science, Law, Built Environment, Arts and
Social Sciences will be available soon. Please encourage your students to make use of these valuable resources
as they learn to identify the most appropriate content for their needs.

CHANGES TO RESERVATIONS
UNSW Library is trialling a self-service method for collecting reservations. Reserved items were formerly held
behind the Loans & Information Desk. Library users can now collect their own reservations from the area
adjacent to MyCourse (Reserve) on Level 2, Main Library.

SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS FOR JANUARY TO JULY 2008
People through the Library gates                                                         1,122,437
Research Consultations                                                                   348
General enquiries at the Loans & Information Desk                                        53,642
Total loans                                                                              1,466,457
Library web pages visited                                                                9,171,798

The services delivered through the online library continue to grow as can be seen in the continued increase in
web pages visited. The Library web pages are being hit approximately 52,000 times per week. The virtual
library is becoming the library of choice for much of the UNSW community.

PRODUCT INFORMATION
CSA ILLUSTRATA: TECHNOLOGY
CSA Illustrata: Technology offers deep indexing for tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the
scholarly research and technical literature. Search results, or objects, can be viewed along with the caption,
author, and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link is
provided to the full text documents when available, and a link back to the parent record provides a summary
view of all the objects associated with that article.

2COLLAB ADDED TO SCIENCEDIRECT PLATFORM
2collab is a free research collaboration tool from Elsevier. Watch the three-minute video about 2collab here.

Researchers can:
       Store, manage and share web references and bookmarks
       Browse and search through other experts' public bookmarks
       Discover, evaluate and initiate contact with other 2collab users
       Export and import bookmarks / references from EndNote and RefWorks
       Use the 2collab browser button to easily add bookmarks for any site
CAMBRIDGE JOURNALS ONLINE
As of June 2008, users can now bookmark links from journal homepages and article abstracts using social
bookmarking services, such as del.icio.us, Digg.com and Reddit.com. This enables users to save web pages
they want to remember or share. CJO is also fully enabled for users of the CiteULike service

The new release also provides a number of benefits to authors:
       in time for this new release "Forthcoming Articles" is to be renamed "First View". Publishing articles
       online first is a major benefit to authors as it enables papers to be cited prior to being placed in an issue,
       allowing research to be disseminated faster
       information on "How to cite this article" on abstracts and HTML full text pages are available to cut and
       copy into a paper
       Zotero can now be used in conjunction with CJO, enabling users to download article citations, or select
       single articles from an issue
       authors are provided with a direct link to their paper on selected titles
       most Cited Articles from the last two years, as well as the entire journal's back volumes, are now
       available on the journal homepage
       CJO users may save articles of interest in their private library on the CiteULike site and add tags for the
       benefit of other researchers

If you require further information on any of the items listed above, or in regards to any UNSW Library service,
please feel free to contact me at any time at l.bosanquet@unsw.edu.au or on x52678.