Publications Database Reports

Currently the reports produced by the system are still principally RAE-based but will be redeveloped as REF matures.

As the system has been developed internally different reports can be generated for various management processes.

Information held in the system can be reproduced in other contexts such as school pages. There is a general philosophy of enter once, publish many times.

Academic CVs

An academic CV is being developed to extract available data from central systems including research publications database and research and consultancy system which includes information on funding.

Journal Management

The 'Journal management System' is an important aspect of the Publications database. It can track ISSNs. Where a Journal is duplicated in the system (e.g. misspelling in the name) they can be merged into a single entity.

Data Submission

Because all the information required for the REF return was already held in the system with the required links between staff and research outputs in place, creating the return for the pilot was simply a matter of writing a report.

The three REF tables were programmatically extracted from the system and submitted via Excel.

The University did not track the time it spent to produce the REF data in the format required. The main effort was in updating the publications database for the period covered and checking the validity of the additional Symplectic data.

Corporate Systems

Queen's University Belfast has the following corporate systems: