An Australian colleague sent me the following comment on this list:
>> I might add as one who was directly involved in the Australian LIS journal listings that there is significant dissatisfaction with the final outcome (and not only from the LIS discipline. I understand that at least two of the "Academies" referred to below have written their displeasure to ARC, and interestingly, someone I know who is an active member of one of the academies (and there are a few) did not know about any "consultation") .
Despite Arthur's statement below and repeated here: "The rankings were developed after a two-year consultation with Australia's professional societies (and their members) and the Academies (important Australians in several groupings eg Science, Humanities)" the final listing for Australian LIS bore little resemblance to the list the Australia LIS academic and researcher community submitted to ARC.
I find the comment "There is in fact very little local!" This was one issue with Australian LIS research - so much of it is local. And my PhD covered well known and respected internationally, Australian geoscientific researchers in a certain sub field and most of their research and publishing was local too. <<
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Subject: Re: Australian Lists of Journals and Conferences
Arthur, any chance of persuading them to publish their data other than in Excel or Zip form? Downloading a file is fine if one wants to make extensive use of it, but if one only wants to check something, it's not so brilliant.
A simple HTML list would be OK, RDF even better?
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On 31 Mar 2010, at 00:38, Arthur Sale wrote:
> I have been waiting for the Australian Government to post to these lists, but they haven't.
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> So let me advise you that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has published its definitive lists of ranked journals used by Australians, and ranked conferences in selected disciplines. I emphasize that (a) these are lists relevant to Australians, and (b) the verb 'used' conveys the proper relationship between author and publisher. The Journal of the American Beaver or the International Journal of Up-Helly-Aa are unlikely to appear (if they exist). Though they might be in the list if we have an Australian researcher working in these fields. Australians are rather eclectic in where they publish (3% of the world's research). There is in fact very little local!
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> Please point your browser to the ARC's page on ranked outlets http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm. Warning: if you download the files on this page they are fairly big. But invaluable.
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> The rankings were developed after a two-year consultation with Australia's professional societies (and their members) and the Academies (important Australians in several groupings eg Science, Humanities).
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> Note that the journals are ranked A+, A, B. C and only the first two categories are regarded as important. They are likely to be internationally relevant. Bs and Cs will contain most of the local stuff. Publishers will dispute rankings of course and the C category is no doubt missing many which are irrelevant to us.
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> Conferences are ranked A, B, C with A regarded as important. Only selected disciplines have ranked conferences (eg computer science) where these are regarded as important research outlets as journals.
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> Arthur
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