Books and book reviews - Research Impact for Law - a self help guide for academics - Library Guides at University of Melbourne

Example statement

Widely cited and reviewed, winner of the The International Law Book Award (2015), this book takes a fresh approach to international law and development. WorldCat, a global catalogue, shows 120 international and 35 across Australia library print holdings.

Books, book chapters and book reviews

Systematically enter a title search for each of your publication titles into the following databases to retrieve citations. Always search full text. Where necessary search instructions have been listed.

Books and book chapters:

Google Books
Focus only on results where the publication title is displayed. Confirm your findings by clicking on preview.
Research Databases - by Type
Search the E-books listed on the Law Databases by type page. Use Advanced search for full text searching. Focus only on results where the publication title is displayed.

Book reviews:

Book reviews are not included in citation counts but can support a narrative of research engagement.

Publishers Websites - Conduct a title search on the publishers website

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full
In Advanced search, select from the drop down menu Select a Field choose (TX All Text). Conduct a title search
Informit
Search across all databases, use Advanced search and select Full text

Library book holdings:

Determine how many copies of your book are available in Libraries across Australia and worldwide.

Trove (National Library of Australia)
Conduct a basic title search. For an Australian geographic breakdown of library holdings, select 'Borrow'
WorldCat
Identify the number of holdings in Australia and overseas libraries by searching Worldcat by title. Numbers will need to be tallied manually.