This area provides strategic guidance on technology to help your institution in the area of research.

Research excellence

Research excellence

Research integrity: make a start with managing your research data

26 March 2013

Well-managed research data is easy to share, facilitating validation of results and future re-use. Research data, as well as journal articles can be stored in a repository, potentially increasing impact   More...

Research integrity: develop your institution’s policy for research data management

26 March 2013

To maintain research integrity (and protect their reputations), institutions and researchers must ensure research data is preserved so that results can be verified and the data reused in future. Re-use   More...

Complying with research funders’ Open Access policies

14 March 2013

Research Councils UK require papers resulting from research they’ve funded to be published Open Access, preferably in journals that make papers immediately available at no charge to readers.   More...

Manage your research information and be ready for the research excellence framework

13 March 2013

Universities will start submitting information to the Research Excellence Framework in January 2013. The Research Councils and Higher Education Statistics Agency are also demanding new and better information about research,   More...

Increasing the impact and visibility of your research

11 March 2013

By increasing the visibility of their research, universities demonstrate the contribution they make to the knowledge economy, improve their chances in the competition for government research funding and position themselves   More...

Increase your research competitiveness: collaborate

11 March 2013

In a world where many research challenges are too big for a single institution to tackle - and the best facilities attract the best researchers - institutions must collaborate in   More...

Increase your competitiveness through research collaboration with business and the community

11 March 2013

By using their research expertise in collaborations with businesses and public sector and community organisations, institutions deliver direct benefit to the economy and wider society, gain knowledge, enhance their reputations   More...