Guide for Business Faculty: Faculty Toolkit
Teaching & Research Guides
- Teach with Copyrighted MaterialsCopyright basics and other related info.
- Finding and sharing persistent links to library contentLinking to resources already available through the Library.
- Open Educational ResourcesInstead of using expensive commercial textbooks, consider using open (free!) textbooks, as well as library resources (ebooks, articles, databases).
- DEI Resources for BusinessResources at the intersection of DEI and business.
- BRASS Business Open Educational ResourcesLinks broken down by disciplines (accounting, management, etc.)
- Using Films in CoursesPolicies regarding using streaming media in courses.
- Demonstrate Your ImpactInstructional information and links to resources for quantitative metrics, such as impact measures and citation counts, as well as qualitative evidence that can be gathered via altmetrics tools and social media.
Journal Ranking & Publication Outlets
Business Specific:
- ABDC Journal Quality ListBy Australian Business Deans Council.
- CABS Academic Journal GuideBy the Chartered Association of Business Schools, UK.
- Google Scholar Top JournalsFor the Business, Economics & Management category.
- ERIM Journals List (EJL)By Erasmus Research Institute of Management.
- 50 Journals used in FT Research Rank50 journals used by the Financial Times in compiling the FT Research rank.
All Disciplines:
- SCImago Journal & Country RankJournals and country scientific indicators based on data in the Scopus® database.
- Journal Quality ListBy Professor Anne-Wil Harzing.
- SCOPUS CiteScore Journal Ranking ListBased on the average citations received per document.
- EigenfactorFree website ranking and mapping academic journals.
- Cabell's Journalytics AcademicComprised of academic journal publication outlets for graduate students and faculty in business, economics,and education.
Think, Check, Submit
This video from Think. Check. Submit. covers some ways to consider in which journals to publish.
Research Impact (citations, etc.)
- Metrics Toolkit"Provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact."
- Google Scholar
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Find how many times an article or book has been cited. - Web of ScienceFind how many times an article (Cited Reference Search) or a researcher (Author Search) has been cited.
- Publish or PerishA free downloadable application that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It analyzes raw citations through Google Scholar and presents statistics such as average number of citations per paper, etc.
- The Publish or Perish BookDocuments the many and variable uses of the Publish or Perish program and shows you how to get the best out of it.
- PDXScholarPortland State University's Digital Repository, PDXScholar, preserves the University's research, unique resources, and other scholarly output with the goal of providing persistent, access to that work.
- AltmetricsTools that track the impact of a wide range of research artifacts (e.g., papers, datasets, slides, research code) by aggregating data from the social Web, such as Mendeley, Twitter, etc..
Faculty Privileges
Did you know that you can:
... Have books owned by PSU Library delivered to your office?
... Get your Graduate Assistant to check out books on your behalf?
... Use the Faculty Reading Room in the Library?
... Check out reference books that are usually "Library Use Only"? * Call Reference Desk at 503.725.2399 for details
** There are many other services available for faculty. Check out the Library Services for Faculty page for the full listing.