Research Access, Impact and Assessment
Research Access, Impact and Assessment
The RAE can help hasten the freeing of access to the research literature by mandating that all UK universities self-archive all their annual refereed research in their own eprint archives. The harvesters (e.g., http://citebase.eprints.org) will provide newer and richer measures of research performance and impact with the help of citation-linking services for open archives (http://opcit.eprints.org is an international collaboration between Southampton, Cornell and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, jointly supported by the NSF in the US and JISC in the UK). Both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact, for the papers and the authors at UK universities and abroad, will be not only accessible but assessable continuously online by anyone who is interested, any time, instead of just in a quadrennial RAE exercise.
open access, research assessment, rae, metrics, research impact, citations, scientometrics, webmetrics, institutional repositories, rcuk
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Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
May 2001
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Harnad, Stevan
(2001)
Research Access, Impact and Assessment.
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1487, .
Abstract
The RAE can help hasten the freeing of access to the research literature by mandating that all UK universities self-archive all their annual refereed research in their own eprint archives. The harvesters (e.g., http://citebase.eprints.org) will provide newer and richer measures of research performance and impact with the help of citation-linking services for open archives (http://opcit.eprints.org is an international collaboration between Southampton, Cornell and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, jointly supported by the NSF in the US and JISC in the UK). Both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact, for the papers and the authors at UK universities and abroad, will be not only accessible but assessable continuously online by anyone who is interested, any time, instead of just in a quadrennial RAE exercise.
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Published date: May 2001
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Appeared as: "Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked." Times Higher Educational Supplement, 18 May 2001.
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open access, research assessment, rae, metrics, research impact, citations, scientometrics, webmetrics, institutional repositories, rcuk
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 255950
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/255950
PURE UUID: e44e6183-2c15-43bf-9582-b82e356d730f
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Date deposited: 19 Jun 2001
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Stevan Harnad
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