Interesting announcement today:
https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-signs-san-francisco-declaration-of-research-assessment/
UKRI have implicitly been DORA signatories for a while – all the Research Councils signed early last year, a month or two before they were moved into UKRI, and I believe HEFCE/Research England had although I’m not sure when (perhaps 2015
as part of the Metrics Tide work?). I think everyone has been treating them as
de facto current signatories as a result. Still, it’s good to have this stated unambiguously and clearly.
Apropos of this … has anyone tried to work out how many bits of the UK research landscape are now covered by DORA or a similar policy/mandate/position statement/etc? We have our list of universities with policies or statements on responsible
metrics, but at the higher level it’s a bit confusing.
UKRI operate throughout the UK, but HEFCE/Research England are (of course) only covering England, and I don’t think the equivalent Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish funding bodies have signed up to DORA. I assume they are broadly on board
with the general idea of responsible metrics as they are all signed up to the REF rules, but I don’t know if they’ve made any kind of more formal statement…
Andrew.
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