This is a guest post by Liesl Rowe, Senior Digital Library Advisor (Copyright), Library and Learning Services, Leeds Beckett University On 1 September 2024, Leeds Beckett University (LBU) formally introduced a new rights retention policy. This was the culmination of a year’s work. The project began in December 2022 with the appointment of our new […]
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The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Institutions are invited to make submissions in 34 subject-based units of assessment (UoAs). For each submission, three distinct elements are assessed by an expert panel: the quality of outputs (e.g., publications, performances, and […]
This post has been written by Dr Jacqueline Thomson, Senior Research Associate at the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol. Researchers from the University of Bristol, in partnership with Jisc, have completed a pilot project investigating how prediction markets might be used to help institutions make decisions about which outputs to submit to future […]