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Bournemouth University
Bournemouth University is a post-1992 university with over 17,000 students. The University is the fourth most improved institution in the UK for the quality of its research, achieving a high global research profile following the announcement of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise results. Highlights of the RAE include:
- three-quarters of research outputs being rated as of 'international repute'
- over 40% of research outputs rated as 'internationally excellent'
- 8 out of 10 subject areas featuring research that was rated as world-leading
- Bournemouth being placed 65th amongst UK universities according to the ResearchResearch.com League Table
Building on research strengths and research potential, Bournemouth has several Research Centres focused on specific areas of interest, which are already gaining national and international recognition. These Centres are multi-disciplinary, professionally related areas embodying the Bournemouth University spirit of cross-school collaboration and support.
Bournemouth University Research Online (BURO) is the University's Institutional Repository. BURO is supported by Eprints software. It gives access to academic outputs created by Bournemouth University staff. Where available, BURO contains the full text of unpublished works (pre-prints) and the author's version of published works (post-prints).
BURO has a well-designed interface and is easy to use. BURO is open to anyone to search, but only Bournemouth University staff can contribute material.
Coverage
The University made the decision to limit the submission of data for the REF pilot due to the deadline requirements. As a result, the submission was limited to approximately two thousand of the fifteen thousand items available. The submitted items were from five Units of Assessment (UoAs) where the data were known to be more readily available on the commercial databases used in the analysis. This was due to the timescales involved in the pilot process.
