2007 Publications Data for Bond University

Books - guide for submission

 

Information in this guide has been taken from the Specifications for the collection of 2007 data. For more detail please read the full document available from the Dept. of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations web site and/or contact the representative in your academic unit.

1. Eligibility

Definition of Research

For the purposes of this data collection, a "research publication" is characterized by:

  • substantial scholarly activity, as evidenced by discussion of the relevant literature, an awareness of the history and antecedents of work described, and provided in a format which allows a reader to trace sources of the work through citations and footnotes;
  • originality, that is, it is not a compilation of existing works;
  • veracity/validity through a peer review process or by satisfying the commercial publisher or gallery processes;
  • increasing the stock of knowledge; and
  • being in a form that enables dissemination of knowledge

Requirements

  • must be a major work of scholarship
  • research must have been published in the 2007 calendar year and 2007 must be stated as the year of publication within or on the work being claimed
  • must be offered for sale and either bound (print) or packaged (CD-ROMS) or on subscription or fee-basis (e-books)
  • has an ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
  • must be written entirely by a single or joint authors who share responsibility for the whole book. Edited chapters may be eligible under a separate category - Book chapters
  • has been published by a commercial publisher (which includes University Press) (Register of Commercial Publishers)
  • the author was affiliated with Bond University at that time

Types of books that may meet the criteria include:

  • critical scholarly texts (for example music, medieval or classical texts)
  • new interpretations of historical events and
  • new ideas or perspectives based on established research findings.

Types of books that are unlikely to meet the criteria include:

  • textbooks
  • edited books (Chapters may be eligible for inclusion in a different category see Book chapters)
  • creative works such as novels
  • translations
  • revisions/new editions
  • anthologies

2. Verification

You must supply :

  • Photocopies of contents, preface, introduction and pages showing all bibliographic information
    • ISBN
    • author/s
    • title
    • publisher
    • all dates referring to copyright, publication, printing, distribution
  • Evidence indicating the author's affiliation to Bond University
    • By-line or footnote or statement in the publication

    OR

    • Statement from the author plus either official statement from the university or extract from staff/student list

  • Completed and signed form for each publication being submitted.