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RAE Publications: Reflections on the University of Edinburgh

Experience

John MacColl

Edinburgh University Library

• RAE2001• RAE2008

• Progress?

• DSpace• Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)

• Romantic fantasies ….• Sufficient to attract some ££

• ERA can do it!

• No bitstreams

RAEERA

RAEERA

• MIS• Data Warehouse

• MyEd

• RAE channel

• Privileged views

• Data Warehouse + RAE-PR

• Migrations and mergers

• Hard work of liaison

• Need to gain trust

• Mock RAEs

• Compromise where necessary

• Metadata in our favour

• RAE-PR faces in 4 directions– ERA– School databases– Bristol– ZETOC

• Research assessment here to stay

• A ‘quality pump’ but leads to bad behaviour

• Winning is everything

• Mourinho, Ferguson, Wenger …

• Institutional repository =• Institutional repository functions (growing)

– open access full-text research materials– open access learning objects– open access records of the research output of

the institution– closed-access full-text archival documents– closed-access full-text high-impact research

materials (‘cream of research’)

• ‘Cream of research’ = IRRA solutions

• Publishers not ready

• Objectless metadata

• Is common sense on the horizon?

• Routine assessment and funding adjustments?

• ‘Cream of research’• More self-archiving

• Virtuous circle

• Always look on the bright side!

Thank you!