Definition

Eligibility

• Must meet the definition of research
• be a major work of scholarship
• have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
• written entirely by a single author, or by joint authors who share responsibility for the whole book.
• must has been published by a commercial publisher.
• the author must be affiliated with the claiming institution (Avondale)

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

Exclusions

• textbooks
• anthologies
• edited books
• creative works such as novels
• translations (unless they have a major demonstrable original research component)
• revisions/new editions
• manuals and handbooks
• theses (PhD, Masters and Honours)

Research Point Value

Definition

Eligibility

• research monographs published by institution departments
• textbooks (consisting mainly of new combinations of existing knowledge or updating of a body of established knowledge tomake it more readily accessible) aimed primarily at a higher education audience
• books published by private individuals, university departments and privately funded companies, eg "vanity presses" that do notmeet the DIISRTE commercial publisher criteria
• evaluative and investigative government department publications, e.g. DIISRTE Evaluations and Investigations Program reports
• other authored books or monographs not classified in A1 above
• annotated anthologies
• translations of published books

Exclusions

• revisions or new editions
• creative works such as novels
• Institutional departmental Working Papers, Technical Reports, Discussion Papers and the like
• textbooks that are primarily aimed at secondary, primary or pre-school students
• unpublished reports
• edited books.

Definition

Exclusions

• Revisions or new editions
• Editorship of special edition journals (possibly C3)

Definition