2. Professor David Eastwood
Chief Executive
Higher Education Funding Council for England
UUK workshop on Research Information and Management
5 December 2007
Optimising research management and assessment processes

3. HEFCE recurrent funding for research
£1,415 million in to support research infrastucture, including:
Salaries of permanent academic staff
Premises
Libraries
Central computing costs

4. Research evaluation and funding after RAE 2008
Research Excellence Framework: the timeline
November 2007 – February 2008
Consultation on key elements of the framework and on implementing bibliometric indicators
Further work on developing bibliometric techniques
March – August 2008
Major pilot of our proposed approach involving HEIs
Autumn 2008
Decisions on the framework and indicators to be used for science
January 2009
Launch of full bibliometrics exercise in the sciences
November 2009
Output of bm exercise available for use in funding; decisions on funding approach phased in from 2010
From late 2009
Consult on implementation of light touch peer review to run in 2013

5. Information management – what is happening now?
Scholarly communications
Immediate access to everything – and archiving and data storage
Delivery to the desktop
Finding and sifting online information
Ordering research information

6. Open Access
We will…continue to encourage the effective sharing of research findings and outcomes, both to support research and teaching within HE and to inform the wider public. To achieve this we will work with partners to improve systems for researchers to share information and disseminate outputs as widely as possible including through new technology.
HEFCE strategic plan

7. Open access principles
Whatever business model is adopted must include:
rigorous quality assurance – including through independent peer review
long term storage and accessibility of text and data
reasonable cost

8. HEFCE support for research information management
JISC
Research Information Network
UK Research Reserve - pilot