LibGuides: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering subject guide: Research

Evaluating researchers and universities

SciVal | UniOulu Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
SciVal offers access to the research performance of 4,600 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. It is a powerful tool for benchmarking and characterizing research and research collaboration of different entities such as researcher, research group, research institution or country. SciVal uses Scopus content from 1996 onwards. Registration is needed. SciVal metrics guidebook | Snowball metrics | More information

Data Management Guide Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Intended for researchers and anyone interested in the management of research data, this guide contains information on key areas of data management and useful links to, for example, existing services. This guide is part of the National Research Data Initiative (TTA) of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

University of Ouulu it administration services offers big disk spaces to research groups to store their data. More info in Notio

Centralised services funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture

IDA storage service Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
IDA is a secure, user-friendly storage service for data and metadata. Meant for research community actors free of charge, IDA is a research data storage system, whose operating principles are set by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Information about University of Oulu practices.
Etsin – Research Data Finder Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
contains metadata of research data.
From Etsin anyone can browse existing data. You can search and find research data for your needs (and the information on how to get the data for your own use). You can also add your own data for others to reuse. Using Etsin is free of charge for end-users.
AVAA open-access publishing platform Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The AVAA Open-access publishing platform is part of the AVOIN project of Ministry of Education and Culture. AVAA offers applications for the use of open-access data, such as downloading and analysis by means of different visualisations.
PAS long-term preservation service Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The long-term preservation solution for research data (TTA-PAS) is currently being developed and will most likely be launched in 2015.

Other research data services

FSD - Finnish Social Science Data Archive - Tietoarkisto Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) is a national resource centre for social science research and teaching.
The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) is a national resource centre for social science research and teaching, also including some research data on the Humanities, education and health sciences. Its primary goal is to increase the use of existing research data by disseminating them throughout Finland and also internationally. Languages: Finnish, Swedish, English.

Directory of Open Access Disciplinary Repositories
OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
Zenodo
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An open access data and publication repository for researchers who want to share multidisciplinary research results not available in other repositories. It was developed by and is hosted at CERN.

EUDAT Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
collaborative Pan-European infrastructure
Dryad EN Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Dryad is an international disciplinary repository of data underlying scientific and medical publications.
Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. The scientific, educational, and charitable mission of Dryad is to promote the availability of data underlying findings in the scientific literature for research and educational reuse.
Dryad originated from an initiative among a group of leading journals and scientific societies in evolutionary biology and ecology.
figshare EN Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.
RECODE Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE)

Researcher profiles in citation databases
Researcher profiles facilitate the finding of both articles and citations received and enhance the researchers’ visibility in the research community.
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Researcher profiles facilitate the finding of both articles and citations received and enhance the researchers’ visibility in the research community.

ISI Highly Cited EN Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
seeks to remedy the systemic name ambiguity problems seen in scholarly research by assigning unique identifiers linkable to an individual's research output.
Researcher ID EN Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
ResearchGate Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
ResearchGate is a free social networking site for scientists and researchers.
ResearchGate - Wikipedia

OuluCRIS research information system Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Iinformation about the publications and other research activity of research units and researchers of the University of Oulu. More info
Juuli Finnish Research Publications Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Information on publications by Finnish universities from 2011. Instructions
The data in Juuli have been obtained in connection with the annual collection of information from the publication registers of Finnish universities. The portal is maintained by the National Library of Finland in collaboration with the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and CSC - IT Centre for Science.
Aaltodoc publication archive Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Publications produced at the Aalto University

First of all, the best way to become familiar with the top journals in your field is to

Read articles in your area of study and take note of where the best ones are published
Consult with senior colleagues in your department
Consult with information specialist

In addition, you may also consider using the following tools:

Elsevier Journal Finder EN
Journal Finder links your abstract to the 200 most relevant articles across Elsevier journals, and then recommends up to 10 of the most relevant journals with editorial times and acceptance percentages for you to consider.
Edanz Journal Selector EN
Enter your abstract or sample text and the Journal Selector returns a list of journals from multiple publishers that publish in related areas. You can refine your results based on publication frequency, Impact Factor or publishing model, including open access.
Jane - Journal Article Name Estimator EN
Compares article title/abstract to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.

AURORA Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The Aurora database includes funding organisations for sciences, arts and culture. The funding opportunities are available for Finns or those residing in Finland. More information
Deutches Stiftungen Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
EU Scholarship Portal Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
scholarships and grants to study in Europe