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John Lamp at Deakin University has put together the following useful site: http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/ Cheers Mary Anne ________________________________________ From: Repositories discussion list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Rusbridge [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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? -- Chris Rusbridge Director, Digital Curation Centre Email: [log in to unmask] Phone 0131 6513823 University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. 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. > > 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! > > 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. > > 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). > > 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. > > 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. > > Arthur > >