Alkek Library News

Advanced Research Tip: Use Dissertations To Get Bibliographies

Here's one for the grad students, advanced undergrads or faculty. Our dissertation databases have thousands of fulltext online PhD and Master's dissertations and theses done at hundreds of different schools.

The main dissertations database is here.

While you can always read the dissertations online, try scrolling to the end and examining their list of works cited. You'll see the scholarly sources they used, as well as discovering primary sources you didn't know existed or that could be used in certain ways.

Check our periodical list to see if we carry the journals you need. Request through interlibrary loan if we don't - or pay a visit to UT-Austin or UTSA.

Faculty: ResearcherID Will Make Your Work More Visible

Researcher ID allows faculty to create an easy access point to their published works. ResearcherID also lets researchers build a searchable database of their body of work. It can assist in clearing up misidentification problems of authors who have published under different variations of their name because the researcher builds the website themselves.

To create a Researcher ID account, go to researcherid.com and click the "how to register" link for an invitation to join.

The database can also be searched by author, institution, or keyword. The search results are shown in two tabs. The first tab shows the list of citations from the author with a link to the full-text of the work.

 

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The second tab shows the citation metrics which includes the total number of articles in the publication list, number of articles cited, sum of the times sited, the average of citations per article and the h-index.

This tool can be a good way for faculty to make their publications and research more accessible to the scholarly community. You must choose to make the information public when setting up your account.

If you're in any of the Web of Science databases, you can also find the link to My Researcher ID from within the database.

Library Research Grants Awarded

Seventeen faculty members have been awarded Library Research Grants for materials to support their research projects.  Members of the Library Committee, the library’s faculty advisory committee reviewed the proposals and recommended grants to the following recipients:

Dr. Bahram Asiabanpour, Department of Engineering
Dr. Ulrich E. Bach, Department of Modern Languages
Dr. Ziao Chen, Department of Computer Science
Dr. Ian Bruce Davidson, School of Music
Dr. Daniela Ferrero, Department of Mathematics
Dr. Michelle Hays, Department of Art and Design
Dr. Charles R. Hurt, School of Music
Dr. David Lemke, Department of Biology
Dr. Kerrie Lewis, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Jacquelyn D. McDonald, Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Dr. Francis A. Mendez, Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Methods
Ms. Nelly Rosario, Department of English
Dr. Elizabeth Morgan Russell, Department of Family and Consumer Science
Dr. David Snyder, Department of Mathematics
Dr. Raphael Travis, Department of Social Work
Dr. Garland R. Upchurch, Jr., Department of Biology
Dr. Selina Vasquez-Mireles, Department of Mathematics

Congratulations to the winners!

More information about the library research grants, including application time line, can be found here.

Labels: faclulty research support, library research grants