Graduate Junction is running an academic poster competition for postgraduate researchers. Prizes include £50 and an iPod nano. Work will be reviewed by a panel of top judges, as well as seen by your peers. The competition website contains some great advice for designing academic posters as well as examples of last year's winners. The competition is open to reserchers from all disciplines and institutions. Closing date: 2 November 2010. Enter here. Good luck!
In Business and Management Studies, researchers undertaking a literature review sometimes search across a defined group of journals. This is a way of focusing the literature search to make the results more relevant to the questions in hand. Groups are often chosen from the Association of Business Schools (ABS)'s Academic Journal Guide . Read more how about how they put together the guide here . There are several ways to search across ABS journals. Here is how to do it in Business Source Premier, a leading literature database for this subject area. 1. Login into the ABS journal guide. If you have never used it before you will need to create an account. 2. You can use the guide to draw up a group of journals either by using the Rankings information or the Fields. Fields divides up the journals into categories of research focus e.g. Accounting, Finance etc. In this example we will use the Fi...