IPSis & PTAR



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Event: Program Sokongan Penyelidikan Untuk Penyelidik Muda
Date: 20 & 21 Januari 2010
Time : 2 days
Venue: Bilik Seminar & Pusat IT,
Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak 1, UiTM Shah Alam

Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang 2008


Senarai penerima Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang (APC) untuk tahun 2008 dari Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak

1. Tn. Hj. Che Haron Wee Ah Boo
2. En. Ariffin bin Jamaludin
3. En. Herman bin Tanbeh
4. Puan Nian bt Musa
5. En. Zainal bin Mohd. Yusop
6. Pn. Norhannah Amir
7. En. Muhamad Azmir Sulaiman
8. En. Ahmad Amiri Mohamad
9. En. Mohd. Shaari Mohd.Yusof
10. En. Mohd. Zulfarith Mohd. Nor
11. Pn. Junaida Kamarudin
12. Pn. Noriah Khabib
13. Pn. Hasnah Abdul Malik
14. Pn. Noormala Maarof
15. En. Mohd. Jamil Mohd Noor
16. En. Mohd. Nasir bin Zainudin


TAHNIAH diucapkan kepada semua penerima APC.

COMING UP: Presentation SCOPUS & ISI

Date: 14-15/12/2009
Venue: UiTM Terengganu
Event:Presentation / Talk @ UiTM Terengganu


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Date: 16/12/2009
Venue: UiTM INTEC
Event: Presentation / Talk @ UiTM INTEC

JOURNAL WORKSHOP @ PTAR


1) The Primary aim of this journal workshop is to improve the quality of journals, articles and research in Malaysia. With the explosion of available information ( both truthful/validated and false/non-validated types), it is important to retrieve what is relevant and useful.


2) Then, it becomes important to process this relevant information and build on it so that it becomes knowledge for the future through journal articles,dissertations,conference proceedings or patents.


3) The Citation Indexes ( the Web of Science), the Impact Factors (Journal Citation Reports and Bibliographic Management Software (EndNote) from the Science business of Thomson Reuters, help in this effort, and the hope is that you take some information back from this workshop so that you can be more effective at using some of these tools/ resources when available.


4) The BENEFITS of attending this seminar are numerous and include learning how to :-

- IMPROVE the quality of articles being submitted to your journal thereby improving your journal, if you are a journal editor/ publisher.

- PRIORITIZE and focus your research effort/funds on particular topics,avoiding duplication, and collaboration with other institutions with similiar priorities, if you are a Deputy VC or Dean.

- Keep abreast of your research area, build-up on other people`s work, and avoid duplication if you are researcher/scientist.

-IDENTIFY journals to publish in or which journals are the best in a particular discipline if you are a researcher or journal editor.

- WRITE and submit journal articles,assigments,dissertations using time-saving bibliographic management tools, if you are an undergraduate,post-graduate,post-doc or researcher.


Date: 23rd October 2009 (FRIDAY)

Venue: IT Centre, PTAR, UiTM Shah Alam


Organised by:

PERPUSTAKAAN TUN ABDUL RAZAK (PTAR)
PUSAT PERANCANGAN STRATEGIK (PPS)
&
INSTITUT PENGURUSAN PENYELIDIKAN (RMI)
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

JPSP @ PENANG talk

















Acara: Ceramah “ Supporting Research in an Impact factor Environment” sempenan Hari Bertemu Pelanggan UiTM Penang.
Penceramah : Puan Khasiah Zakaria
Tarikh: 6/10/2009
Masa: 10.30 pg – 1.20 ptg

Laporan:

Bertempat di Dewan Seminar Perdana Aras 3 , Bangunan Pentadbiran UiTM Penang, taklimat “ Supporting Research in an Impact factor Environment” telah diaturkan oleh Ketua Perpustakaan UiTM Penang, Puan Norhayati dengan bantuan staf perpustakaan . Seramai 55 peserta telah mengikuti program ini yang terdiri daripada kalangan pensyarah-pensyarah muda.

Seminar berlangsung pada jam 10.30 pagi dan berakhir pada 1.10 petang dengan selingan slot oleh pihak GARTNER yang menerangkan tentang produk dan apa yang mereka boleh tawarkan untuk para penyelidik. Ceramah yang disampaikan oleh Pn. Khasiah Zakaria menerangkan tentang pentingnya RU ( Research University) dan Jabatan Pengurusan Sokongan Penyelidikan ini sebagai hub untuk menjayakan RU itu.

Penyampaian juga menyentuh tentang betapa pentingnya para pensyarah:


  1. menulis jurnal artikel dan diterbitkan sebanyak yang mungkin untuk dapat di masukkan di dalam SCOPUS dan ISI supaya dapat di index oleh dua (2) pengkalan data ini.

2. menulis buku dan diterbitkan oleh UPENA serta mempunyai Indeks belakang Buku (IBB) – keranan buku yang tiada Indeks belakang buku tidak dikira sebagai buku berkualiti berwasit atau “scholarly books” malah Indeks belakang buku dapat meningkatkan nilai buku itu kerana pembaca boleh terus mencari kata kunci menggunakan Indeks Belakang Buku(IBB) . Elemen ini IBB juga meningkatkan buku ini diindeks oleh AMAZON.com dan melalui Amazon.com buku ini boleh dijual di serata dunia.


3. Selain itu, taklimat ini menyedarkan peri pentingnya menggunakan perpustakaan sekiranya ingin mencari maklumat . Pihak perpustakaan sebntiasa bersedia membantu.


4. Pihak Pensyarah juga dimaklumkan agar meningkatkan jaringan ataupun “networking” dengan rakan dari berbagai negara dari berbagai benua. Penceramah mencadangkan agar pensyarah yang dapat menghadiri persidangan antarabangsa mengedarkan ‘business card ‘ sebanayak mungkin dan disamping itu bertukar kad dan idea dengan rakan dari berbagai negara. Seterusnya, sekembalinya mereka ke Malaysia mereka perlu terus berhubung dan mungkin perlu menjemput mereka untuk menjadi penulis jurnal terbitan UiTM atau menjadi rakan penulis atau sidang editor.


Penceramah berharap agar kerjasama antara perpustakaan dan pensyarah dapat terus ditingkatkan dan seterusnya membantu UiTM menjadi Universiti Penyelidikan.

Diakhir sesi, sedikit cenderamata disampaikan oleh pihak UiTM Penang iaitu Puan Norhayati lepada Puan Khasiah tanda kenang-kenangan dan juga pihak GARTNER kepada UiTM Penang.

Back of the book index

Date: 27 August 2009
Subject: Back of the book index (BoBI)

In our usual conversation on how to improve UiTM's knowledge production and ranking , I spoke to Prof Normah regarding Back of the Book Index (BoBI) ...And she straights away agreed to have me(!?) to talk about it in a room full of Book Writers! They already have about 50 books to publish.

ARI (Accounting Research Institute) - I vote the best COE in UiTM, any time - set the date for the talk on Tuesday 01 September 2009@12.00 noon.

I have done two BoBI so far...and do I command the language of an Indexer....?
As a librarian, perhaps it is usual for us to work with index , but BoBI is quite new for us in UiTM ...anyway, we must try our best to fulfill the needs of our user... for the sake of UiTM!

Anyone interested to hear my talk on BoBI please feel free to join us at Level 12 of Menara SSAS next week!

Report by : Khasiah Zakaria

UiTM Research Support is about

1) UiTM Research Support is about Research Support Division (RSD) will try to improve handling of research and researchers by offering solutions and processes for quality research. RSD may improve its offer to UiTM library users.




2) Over the time we will develop a scalable framework to improve the processes of creating, storing, publishing, and archiving content from mere manuscript to be disseminated across intranet, web, and print channels.




3) This "Research -knowing-doing" gap among UiTM researchers-to -be could be bridged by RSM solutions working in tandem with knowledge management (KM) solutions. This blog takes a closer look at this gap as well as how knowledge management makes RSM investment pay off.




text by: Khasiah Zakaria