Research Data Lifecycle by UK Data Service (1:40)
Data Management Tools
Data Management Guides
Data Services
Research Governance
Research Ethics
Research Funding and Grants
Journal Alerts
Set-up email alerts for the latest articles from your favourite journals:
Or view the Subject Alerts and Journal Table of Contents RSS feeds set-up by the Library:
Help with Finding Research Literature
Citation Management Tools: EndNote
EndNote is a bibliographic software program by Thompson Reuters that allows you to:
Free for WNHS staff - see our EndNote Guide
Other Citation Tools:
Referencing and Writing Style Guides
Journal Title Abbreviations
Find the full journal title or the abbreviation of the full title:
Research Education Modules and Workshops
Reporting Guidelines and Standards
What is Open Access?
Open Access (OA) is digital, online, free of access barriers, peer-reviewed research, compliant with copyright. OA is not self-publishing, backyard publishing, free of cost publishing. OA publishing models can be broadly categorized as:
Open Access journal options flowchart (AOASG)
Why choose Open Access?
OA Publishers & Associations
Creative Commons Licences
Creative Commons Licences or CC Licences enable the sharing and reuse of creative content by individuals, institutions and companies. It gives people the right to make use of open access material on the Internet but only under certain conditions.
There are 6 different levels of CC Licences - click on the chart below for the permitted reuse provided by each CC Licence (CC BY Creative Commons Australia).
Not all CC Licences are compatible. See the following License Compatibility Chart
For more information see Creative Commons Australia
Build an Online Profile
Register an Author ID
Create a unique researcher /author ID to link all your research thereby facilitating discovery, avoiding misidentification and enabling you to track your research for grant applications. Use the following free tools:
Join an Online Network
Choose the right publisher
Improve visibility - choose Open Access publishing:
Look for prestigious publishers in your area of interest:
Check the Impact Factor of the journal:
Demonstrate your research impact
Citation analysis
When applying for grant applications you may be asked to demonstrate your research impact via citation analysis (bibliometrics). Use Web of Science to create citation reports as a quantitative measure of impact - see Curtin University Library Guide. Other ways of counting citations:
Many databases now contain citation tracking information for individual articles including ScienceDirect; Highwire Press; Cochrane; BioMed Central
Calculate your h-index
The h-index is a metric designed to measure the productivity and impact of a researcher's work. The h-index is defined by how many h of a researcher's (or group's) publications have each had at least h citations. So a h-index of 6 means that you have published 6 papers that have all been cited at least 6 times. You can use Publish or Perish or Google Scholar to calculate this for you. Or you can do so manually by locating citation counts for all published papers and ranking them numerically by the times cited in descending order (see below):
Altmetrics
Altmetrics track web usage as an alternative measure of research impact. This can include abstract views & downloads; blogs & media coverage; social media such as twitter; collections such as Zotero, Mendeley, CiteULike.
Some databases display Altmetrics for articles e.g. BMJ Journals Online, ScienceDirect
Clinical Trials Registers
Systematic Review Registers
Also see the Library's guide:
WNHS Staff Publications
Go to our searchable Staff Publications guide for links to Full Text where possible:
Let Us Know about your published work and we will add it to Staff Publications!
Over the last decade there has been an increase in new publishers and journals attracting authors who wish to publish Open Access (OA). If you decide to publish in an OA journal, it is important to evaluate the scholarly credibility of the publisher and the journal.
Think. Check. Submit provides guidance on choosing the right journal for your research.
Following are some questions to help assess open access publishers and journals:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides a directory of quality peer-reviews open access journals.
The World Association of Medical Editors provide guidance on identifying predatory or pseudo-journals.
The following lists have compiled 'potential, possible or probably predatory' journals:
Note: These lists are not comprehensive or authoritative. They are designed to help authors, but you should conduct your own due diligence to reach your own conclusion.