rae publications: reflections on the university of edinburgh experience john maccoll edinburgh...
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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!