The Link Table

The link table was constructed manually and proved to be a time-consuming process. For every member of staff in the staff table, the entire outputs table was scanned, and for every output identified for the current member of staff, a link record was created.

A large amount of the research at the University is multi-disciplinary. Therefore, not only is there a large degree of internal co-authoring but also outputs can appear in more than one journal. A great deal of care was needed to ensure that any duplicates were correctly managed.

Data Submission

Because Eprints is a subscription service, the development of reports is not under the control of Bournemouth University. As a result, there is not yet a single report that could be used to export all the data required for the pilot in the correct format and so a degree of intermediate processing was necessary for the outputs table.

All three tables were submitted using MS Excel.

Corporate Systems

Bournemouth University has the following corporate systems: