UCARIS: Developing a research information system for a specialist arts institution

Garrett, Leigh and Spalding, Mary-Anne and Silva, Carlos (2013) UCARIS: Developing a research information system for a specialist arts institution. In: Open Repositories 2013, 8 July - 12 July 2013, Prince Edward Island, Canada. (Unpublished)

Creators:
Garrett, Leigh and Spalding, Mary-Anne and Silva, Carlos
Description/Abstract:

In response to the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) research quality assurance assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework in 2014 (REF), the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) identified a need to establish a centralised information system to gather, manage and maintain relevant data relating to its research and researchers in order to effectively prepare for the university’s REF submission.

In 2010 internal funds were secured to develop UCA Research Information System (UCARIS). The project proposed the development of a comprehensive, university wide research information system using the EPrints repository platform. As well as being seen as critical for the REF submission, the overarching approach of the implementation of UCARIS was that there should be ‘one input, many outputs’, in order to minimise the burden on academics and administrators in producing publications lists and reports for other internal and external purposes.

Item Type:
Conference or Workshop Item
Official URL:
http://or2013.net/
Date:
11 July 2013
Funders:
UCA
Event Location:
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Additional Information:

The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities. (http://or2013.net/content/about [accessed 17.07.2013])

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
CRIS, ePrints, ePrints 2014 plugin, RAE 2008, REF 2014, repositories, research information systems, research outputs
Schools:
Other Departments > Library & Student Services
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Depositing User:
Mary-Anne Spalding
Date Deposited:
17 Jul 2013 18:25
Last Modified:
01 Mar 2022 10:25
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/1591

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