Research Management: Key Resources

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)

Research metrics for Researchers
An excellent introduction to metrics including Journal Impact factors and citation metrics

Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)

Briefing Paper on institutional repositories for research management and assessment [PDF]
A good overview of the role the repository can play in research management, it’s relationship with Research Management systems and a range of critical success factors.

HEFCE and the REF2014

REF2014 Bibliometrics pilot exercise
The reports from HEFCE exercise to develop bibliometric indicators for the REF. The exercise ”concluded that citation information is not sufficiently robust to be used formulaically or as a primary indicator of quality in the REF” It did note however “that there is scope for such data to inform and enhance the process of expert review.”

The Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham

Report on Open Access and the Research Economy [PDF]
This report from the Centre for Research Communications includes information on ‘What is the role of an institutional repository in the management of research across an institution?’