Your librarian can assist you throughout the entire life of a research project. An overview of services includes:
Citation Management | Literature Review Assistance | Copyright / Fair Use | Institutional Repository Support
To schedule a research consultation for these and other services, contact Mary Catherine Lockmiller via:
To learn more about the many different ways that impact can be measured, check out the following Metrics Toolkit: https://www.metrics-toolkit.org/.
While PBC Library does not provide statistical consultation services, PBC students and employees can schedule distance-based appointments with the NAU Statistical Consultation Lab at the following link: https://nau.edu/math/statistical-consulting-lab/guide-to-statistical-consulting-lab/.
In instances where NAU-PBC affiliates need to access materials which are not available in PBC Library or via NAU's e-resources, materials can be requested through Document Delivery Services.
DDS allows for the interlibrary loan of printed materials and full text journal articles that are not available electronically.
To initiate a DDS request, please visit http://library.nau.edu/services/dds.html.
For more information, call the Cline Library DDS Office at 928-523-6808.
OpenKnowledge@NAU is NAU's Institutional Repository, where faculty and students provide access to their pedagogical work, research, and other creative output. Having access to an Institutional repository can 1) extend NAU's global impact; 2) help researchers meet funding requirements; 3) advance interdispiclinary and public collaboration; 4) promote long-term preservation and access; 5) promote the value of open access to information.
NAU PBC faculty and students can publish posters, scholarly writing, curricular design, art, books, datasets, and reports, among other products!
For information about OpenKnowledge@NAU, please contact catherine lockmiller at mary-catherine.lockmiller@nau.edu or Brittany Blanchard at brittany.blanchard@nau.edu.
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Zotero is an open-source citation management platform. It includes a wealth of options to help make research easier. These include:
It is becoming increasingly common to take bibliometrics and altmetrics into consideration when performing research and preparing for publication.
Typically, bibliometrics will inform decisions to publish work in specific journals; they also function to give insight into the common usage of specific articles within a discipline or field of study, They also provide insight into emerging lines of inquiry and research. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and H- score are the most common measures; however, Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) is growing in popularity. They function as follows:
Different databases employ different metrics; however, Web of Science includes complete readouts of different metrics (including H- score and JIF). Web of Science also includes its own in-house metrics scale that measures publications by number of views. This measure affects how results are loaded in response to a search query. Articles with more views tend to appear higher on the results list.
Scimago is an open access database that ranks journals according to prestige. Journals that are established, have more publications that get cited, and with more popular authors are listed higher in the rankings. Scimago allows users to search by discipline.
Scopus is similar to Web of Science, in that it places emphasis on citations and maps networks of citations across disciplines. Scopus relies on SNIP, a method that is similar to the NIH's RCR method mentioned above.
iCite is a service developed and funded by the NIH. It ranks papers according to RCR. iCite has the potential to deliver more balanced measures than Web of Science or Scopus; however, iCite only includes papers published in MEDLINE from 1995 to present.