Hi folks,
I've had a couple of "what's this ERA/HERDC point stuff" so here is a brief
entry for the lay-person.
ERA is Excellence in Research in Australia - basically money given by the
Australian Research Council to research bodies/faculties and schools who have
authors who publish in ERA journals (so peer-reviewed titles) and HERDC is the
Higher Education Research Data Collection - similar. HERDC used to be called
DEST, which was something similar (I can't remember what DEST stands for).
Essentially - schools and faculties at universities and other research bodies
would be wanting their academics and researchers to publish in ERA and HERDC
registered journals to ensure funding. These journals are peer-reviewed and
have a high impact factor (which is basically the amount of times that articles
published in those titles get cited in other articles). There is nothing wrong
with publishing in a non peer reviewed journal, but there's not any extra
funding from the government for that. There are some journals that are NOT
peer-reviewed although they have high impact factors, but they aren't eligible
for ERA/HERDC points as they aren't peer reviewed. I can't recall and can't be
bothered checking which one it is, but it's a fairly well known sciencey title
that you all know if you don't occasionally read.
So ERA and HERDC points are given to journals that are scored more highly
(based on impact factors etc) and therefore earn more money for the author and
their schools.
I might have missed something, but it's been a long day. I didn't want to get
involved in this whole academics v birders thread, but had to back up a fellow
library person. If you've got any questions, check out the ARC website for more
information than most people would want to read on it.
Anyway - has anyone seen any birds lately? I had a Koel in the backyard
yesterday. Latest one I can recall having here in Sydney.
Cheers
Troy
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Troy Mutton
Sent: Monday, 8 March 2010 1:23 PM
To:
Subject: Grey literature
And as a librarian at an academic institution, Helen's definition of
grey literature is how we understand and teach it. I've not come across
an article not being peer-reviewed as being grey lit. - it's just not
peer-reviewed and not of any use for ERA or HERDC points.
It's the next wild frontier - how to search for grey literature. Some
disciplines do it well - ie: physics, while (many) others don't.
Cheers
Troy
On 08/03/2010, at 10:32 PM, Susan Knowles wrote:
As a library student I was taught Helen's definition of grey literature.
The other may be more common as an academic definition.
Susan Knowles
On 07/03/2010, at 9:17 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
Can anyone shed any light on the difference between these two
definitions of "grey literature"? It seems Helen's definition below
(unpublished and unsearchable) is the most common, but Chris's (not
peer-reviewed) seems fairly common on the net too.
Peter Shute
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