Happy new year all,

 

In case you’re not aware, the UK higher education funding bodies currently have an open consultation on the next Research Excellence Framework, see: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2016/201636/

 

The consultation invites comments on how to ‘incentivise units to share and manage their research data more effectively’ (Q.37 p.26) . The question appears under the Open Access heading in the section on Environment, immediately before the questions on institution-level assessment of impact and environment, which looks designed to encourage suggestions linking the two. Are institution-level case studies of RDM support facilities the most we should expect to see, or are there other ways the REF should help promote RDM and sharing?

 

Best wishes,

 

Angus

 

 

Dr Angus Whyte

Snr Institutional Support Officer

Digital Curation Centre

University of Edinburgh

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skype: angusawhyte

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