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Times Higher Education - Have you registered?

Keep up to date with the latest news from the higher education sector across the globe via Time Higher Education. QUT Library provides access and registration to the Times Higher Education for all QUT staff and students.

Here's how you can register:

  • Go to the Times Higher Education and click on the Register option (top right corner)
  • Fill in the registration form making sure you register with your x.xxxx@qut.edu.au email address (do not use a non-QUT email).
  • Choose a username and password. Please note: the username you choose will be publically displayed if you leave comments on articles.
  • Once you have submitted your registration form you will receive a confirmation email from Times Higher Education (if it does not appear, please check your clutter of junk email folders)

Access via mobile device

Read the latest news from Time Higher Education on your mobile device by downloading the Times Higher Education app for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire devices.

Getting the most from your Financial Times subscription

QUT Library provides full access to the Financial Times, UK’s leading financial newspaper. Registration is simple through the link on the QUT Library page, and it allows you to configure FT to your topics of interest and subscribe to news alerts.  

Here are a couple of ways you can get the most out of your FT subscription:

  1. Receive daily updates from FT on topics that interest you

In addition to reading through today’s news headlines, your subscription allows you to subscribe to topical newsletters curated by FT’s editors and delivered daily or weekly to your inbox.  There are nearly 50 newsletters for choose from, including:

  • FT Brexit Briefing – latest news on Brexit (daily)
  • #fintechFT – digital disruption of the financial services sector (weekly)
  • Due diligence – top stories and analysis on M&A deals and dealmakers (daily, Tues-Fri)
  • FT Free Trade – trends and analysis of trade issues (weekly)
  • Market Forces – update on what’s behind movements in global markets (daily)
  • Commodities Note – news from commodities markets, including price trends and analysis (daily)
  • ETFs – news about exchange traded funds (daily)
  • FTfm – news and analysis on the global fund management industry (weekly)
  1. Access FT on your phone or mobile device

Download the Ft app from the App Store or the Google Play to access the FT app and read articles on the go, or save to read later.

Resources for teaching: Videos on research methods and data analysis from CARMA

The CARMA Video Library provides a useful collection of videos on topics related to research methods and data analysis for use in teaching for by researchers.  Video titles available include:

  • Design and Measurement with Quantitative and Qualitative Data
  • Why and How to Replace Statistical Significance Tests with Better Methods
  • Event sampling methods
  • Conducting Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling with R

The videos range from introductory overviews of key concepts to more advanced levels suitable for post-graduate research students and researchers. 

CARMA Video Library is provided by the Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

Australian SME industry reports now available in Ibisworld

Ibisworld modules

IBISWorld have released two complimentary modules  – no end date on their availability .

They appear like below:

  1. Business Environment Drivers

  1. Australian iExpert Collection

You’ll find these by opening an Industry report, then clicking on the light bulb icon on the left.

If you have any difficulties with the light bulb appearing, try a different browser – Edge seems to work best.

Registered and vetted charity registers now available in Orbis

SAGE Business Cases: 2530 course material ready case studies.

Some reasons to consider Sage Business Cases for unit course material redesign and enrichment:
Designed to suit a range of teaching uses: from short vignettes to narrative long form.
Teaching notes accompany most cases, providing suggested teaching strategy, learning outcomes and discussion questions.
Cutting-edge cases covering hot business topics and emerging industries
Unlimited access to all cases at no direct cost to students.

Please find full Sage Business case Studies collection provided for browsing (Google Sheet below) and as a linked library search for filtering here:

ACPNS Legal Notes

Overton - World's largest policy database

  • Look up policy document and look at what it cited (a QUT researcher, scholarly papers, other policy documents) and also newer publications that cited it  or look at QUT scholarship paper and see what policy documents cited it and cited them in turn.
  • Access 9.3 million+ policy documents - the largest policy database
  • Study dynamics of policymaking & identify patterns & gaps.
  • Support grey lit searching for literature reviews
  • Find influential organisations & spot emerging policy debates
  • Understand the reach & influence of your research outputs in the policy space for case studies & grants.
  • A policy document is written primarily for or by policymakers & published by policy focused source - includes blog posts, clinical guidance, transcripts, legal documents, working papers, technical reports, committee reports, position statements, policy briefs, educational materials, guidelines, factsheets, newsletters - have to be freely available via websites
  • Mostly sourced from government bodies as well as think tanks & IGOs 
  • Governments tend to cite IGOs & Think Tanks - who in turn are much better at citing scholarly research
  • Language agnostic - 188 countries & territories covered
  • Comprehensive since 2015
  • Process full text, identify references, people & topics, linking policy to scholarly research

Subculture Archives

Look up any nonprofit using Candid’s GuideStar

New dataset from ATO : ALife

The ATO Longitudinal Information Files (ALife) dataset  is available for QUT staff and HDR students only, at a cost, which is to cover access to the secure online research environment, a remote-access data laboratory.  As per the record, project applications must be submitted to the ATO via the QUT Access Manager (Research Data Librarian) who will work with researchers to submit requests for access to the data. 

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