Thanks to Gerry for this news, which does seem highly relevant to institutional repositories.
On the specific point of grant codes in metadata records, I understand these are not commonly added
at present. The "Scholarly Works" metadata application profile (SWAP) specifically includes fields
for both grant code and funder. However, it's one thing having the field available, quite another to
have it regularly and reliably populated.
It's also worth noting that the UK PubMedCentral manuscript submission system uses a grant tool that
looks up on funders' systems for any information associated with specific grants, and uses this to
auto-populate relevant metadata fields.
Best wishes
Neil
Gerry Lawson (RCUK,Secretariat) wrote:
> Pete, Thanks for your summary. I've read the contributions and wanted to
> add a few points in favour of an 'agreed' UK research/subject
> classification from the point of view of (some at least) of the Research
> Councils (RCs).
>
> 1. RCs need to formalise their respective scopes: most do this using a
> simple heirarchical classification of 'their' science/research area.
> The problem is that there are 7 Councils and 7 independent
> classifications.
> 2. RCs need to match the skills of panels and referees to those of
> proposals. Subject classifications help with this (tho there is scope
> too for text matching).
> 3. RCs are continually told by Government that we should fund more
> cross-disciplinary research - this is hard manage or measure without
> some agreement on 'disciplines'.
> 4. Government and MPs continually ask questions like 'how much is spent
> on research into subject 'x' in region 'y'. Out input and output
> statistics need to be reported by science or research area.
> 5. RCs are under pressure save academics the time they spend writing
> final reports for research grants and replace these with quantatitive
> data on outputs and outcomes. Ideally, RCs would access this
> information by polling Insitutional Repositories, and classification of
> publications in these repositories would greatly help quantatative
> analysis of outputs (its coming anyway in some form for the REF).
>
> Finally two questions:
>
> 1. RCs are under an obligation (formalised in the HERRG Concordat) to
> reduce the amount of form-filling that HEIs have to undertake, and share
> data with other organisations in the sector - e.g. HESA. We are
> therefore wondering whether JACS (extended as part of the JACS3 project)
> could be adopted as a common subject classification for research
> proposals (a bit like the ANZSRC). JACS is well know to academics - each
> of them are required to classify their highest degree using it, and all
> their courses and PHD students are classified in the same way. It
> should be preferable to DDC etc for use in IR metadata, and would bridge
> the education and research areas?
>
> 2. There is an agreement between the Association of Learned and
> Professional Society Publishers, the Association of Medical Research
> Charities, the Publishers Association, Research Councils UK
> and the Wellcome Trust over the form of citation to be used to
> acknowledge the research grant leading to any publication
> (http://www.rin.ac.uk/funders-acknowledgement). Can anyone advise me if
> 'related grant number' has been included as a field in IR metadata? If
> so has anyone done any searches to see if its being filled in?
>
> Gerry Lawson ..
> FEC Review Project Manager
> Research Councils UK, Polaris House
> Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1ET
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