Publications Collection
Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC)
The Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) comprises research income and research publications data submitted by universities each year to the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Data collected are used, along the Higher Education Student Data Collection, for determining allocations to universities under the Commercialisation Training Scheme (CTS), the Research Training Scheme (RTS), the Institutional Grants Scheme (IGS), the Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA), the International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), the Joint Research Engagement (JRE) scheme, and the Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) program.
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Research Publications Collections: Objectives
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The objective is to collect data on the University’s publications:
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Key Collection Milestones
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- All publications to be submitted to the Research Branch: 31 March
- Research Branch quality assurance and analysis to meet submission requirements: 2 June
- Obtain Vice-Chancellor's Certification Statement for the publications submission: 27 June
- HERDC submission: 30 June
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Support Material
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Support material to help with the publication collection are available in this section. Please See more[+]
- Publications Collection Manual for Publications Coordinators (rtf, pdf).
- Publications Collection Pro-forma for submission to Research Branch (rtf, pdf).
- Author affiliation statement (rtf, pdf).
- Produce reports for the current publications collection using the publications tab from Researchers Profiles in ORBIT.
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Useful Links
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This section contains a list of useful websites that can provide more information, specific detail on a topic, and support. See more[+]
- ISI Web of Science Current Contents: Search for journal articles by author, year or journal title in the online database. Coverage includes complete bibliographic information from journal articles.
- Scopus: Search for journal articles by author, year or journal title in this online database of research literature with over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers.
- Google scholar: Search for scholarly literature by author or title.
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory: Search for journals, those listed "Refereed: Yes" are considered to have met HERDC peer review requirements.
- Higher Education Research Data Collection - Specifications:
- Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) Specifications for publication and income
- Information regarding the determination of allocations to universities under the Research Training Scheme, the Institutional Grants Scheme, the Research Infrastructure Block Grants Scheme.
- Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA): The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative is developed by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in conjunction with the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR). ERA is a research quality assurance system using a combination of metrics and expert review.
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship: Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) is the University of Adelaide's institutional digital repository.
- Australian & New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
- GO8 - Benchmarking and statistics (Executive dashbord): Provides comparisons between the eight member universities over time for several key indicators of performance.
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Contacts |
Address all mail using full address to:
Sue Delaine
Research Branch
Level 7, 115 Grenfell Street
The University of Adelaide SA 5005
Australia
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| Sue Delaine |
Publications and Finance Officer |
8303 3340 |
| Donna Holloway |
Publications and Data Entry Officer |
8303 3789 |
| Julie Blake |
Manager, Research Data and Systems |
8303 4992 |
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