Saving Research Time – Pt. 2

Robin Featherstone

Research & Instructional Librarian (Nursing)

rfeathe@uwo.ca

(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383

Suzanne O’Neill

Public Services Librarian

soneill@fanshawec.ca

(519) 452-4430 ext: 4346

Research Life-cycle

Literature searching:Managing citations:

Collecting data:

Creating manuscripts:

Publishing:

Fund searching:

CANADIAN DIRECTORY TO FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS

Part Two

Fund Searching – Gov’tCIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)

http://www.cihr.gc.ca

Funding Opportunities Database

NSERC (Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada)

http://www.nserc.gc.ca

Biomedical engineering, biostatistics, psychology, life sciences research related to human health and disease (pathology, toxicology, nutrition, etc...)

SSHRC (Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada)

http://www.sshrc.ca

Sociological, psychological or management research

Exercise

Using the CIHR website (http://www.cihr.gc.ca), answer the following:

1. How many funding opportunities are available from the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health?

2. What grant for health professionals has a deadline date between January and June 2010?

Fund Searching - Private

Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations

Online directory

2,200 Canadian grant-making organizations

150 American foundations with a history of granting in Canada

Find using the library catalogue

OR through the Nursing page under “researcher tools”

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing

Exercise

Using the Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations, answer the following:

1. How many grantmakers provide funds for communications disorders research?

Research Life-cycle

Literature searching:Managing citations:

Collecting data:

Creating manuscripts:

Publishing:

Fund searching:

CANADIAN DIRECTORY TO FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS

Survey Monkey

Web-based survey creation tool

2 kinds of subscriptions

Basic (Free!)

100 participants maximum

Professional ($20/month, $200/year)

http://tinyurl.com/taylorsurvey

Research Life-cycle

Literature searching:Managing citations:

Collecting data:

Creating manuscripts:

Publishing:

Fund searching:

CANADIAN DIRECTORY TO FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS

Journal Citation Reports

Identify the most appropriate, influential journals in which to publish

Confirm the status of journals in which you have published

Two editions: JCR Science EditionJCR Social Sciences Edition*

* Tip: for nursing, search both

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing

Journal Citation Reports

• Evaluate a particular journal

– Impact factor

– Immediacy factor

• Consider other journals

– Look at related journals

Exercise

• Find the Journal of Emergency Nursing in the 2007 JCR Science Edition

1. What is its 2007 Impact Factor?

2. What is the most closely related journal?

3. Which one has a higher Impact Factor?

Exercise

• Conduct a subject search for nursing in the 2007 JCR Science Edition

1. Which journal has the highest Impact Factor?

2. Which journal has the highest Immediacy Index?

Robin Featherstonerfeathe@uwo.ca

(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing