Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No J ERA 2010 (Excellence in Research for Australia) August 2010 Viji Gururajan – ERA Information Officer

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research QUT ERA Summary ERA - Perspective - News ERA 2010 at QUT – Overall Perspective Few Suggestions that would help HERDC and future ERA

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research ERA - Perspective A range of research outputs were submitted ERA – has institution’s reputation attached ERA – attached to future funding ERA – help to reduce the gap and standardise data collection ERA evaluation currently under process ERA – Mammoth task, but very positive in terms of streamlining the research collection and the way we see research

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research ERA News 41 Universities took part in the ERA submission 350,000 research outputs were submitted Reported 50,000 researchers 480 queries were made to ARC just between 21 st June to 22 nd July. ARC sent a cumulative of 360 data integrity s to institutions (all)

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research QUT (Slide 1) QUT submitted 11,000 odd outputs. This included all eligible HERDC outputs and Pre- QUT pubs. About outputs over the average outputs. QUT reported 1285 researchers. About 65 more than the average number of staff.

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research QUT ( Slide 2) SEER system generated about 1200 warnings for QUT submission, mostly duplicate warnings. (SEER fuzzy logic) Last minute changes were related to e-prints broken links, Scopus tags and duplicate checking. VC certified QUT submission on 29 th July and posted the same to Canberra.

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research QUT (Slide 3) SEER system struggled to cope with submissions from all Universities ERA results not expected until the end of the year /possibly even next year. Not sure of next ERA, but anticipate not before 2012

CRICOS No J a university for the world real R Office of Research HERDC/ERA Suggestions N/A, not sure, - e-prints link (missing :// or htps or other typos) ISSN – check (Ulrich’s or Scopus) Place of Publication – Standard places Foreign titles (both foreign and English titles required) Be vary of data duplication, data errors Meaningful data is essential.