Research Publications
Reporting your research publications
The annual Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC), measures staff and student research output, in order to calculate part of the funding for research awarded to each institution .
In order to ensure that research publications are reported and that the Faculty’s HERDC submission (and resultant income) is optimised, for Business and Law the research publications submission process is as follows:
- Staff and student authors in Accounting Economics and Finance (AEF), Deakin Graduate School of Business (DGSB) and Management and Marketing (MM) submit the publication with any verification evidence required for HERDC to their School contact (below), using a Faculty publications reporting proforma [97KB DOC]. Send to:
AEF: Lee-Ann Stones, Business and Law, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
IS: Jessica Coffey, Business and Law, Melbourne Burwood Campus
DGSB: Vicki Daley, Business and Law, Melbourne Burwood Campus
MM: Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Business and Law, Melbourne Burwood Campus
All other Staff and student authors in Business and Law submit the verification evidence required for HERDC to the Faculty Research Admin Group, using a Faculty publications reporting proforma [97KB DOC].
Address to: Katrina Fleming, Business and Law, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus - Faculty Research Admin staff verify against HERDC Specifications and enter details on DRO.
- Research publications data is uploaded from DRO to the Deakin Research database, to update publication reports by individual, Faculty or School.
The Faculty publications reporting proforma [97KB DOC] allows the submitting author to provide the URL for the online version of their publication and any necessary evidence (eg. peer review), instead of a photocopy (except for conferences, for which online evidence is often transitory).
Books may be provided as evidence and will be kept for inclusion in the Library collection, or if necessary will be returned to the author once verified.
Links to the Specifications for the HERDC, Register of Refereed Journals and Register of Commercial Publishers, the Field of Research (FoR) and Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) codes and the ISI Indicies and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, are available on the Research Services Publications Collection Links website.
The categories of publication which are reported for the HERDC are:
- research books (A1);
- chapters in research books (B1);
- peer-reviewed journal articles (C1); and
- peer-reviewed published conference papers (E1).
Deakin University also collects publication data in additional categories. The full list of research output categories and definitions for the HERDC and Deakin collection is listed in the current Guide to Reporting Publications, available from the Research Services Publications Forms and Guidelines website.
Reported research publications are also used to support applications for research support, including Overseas Conference Leave, research grants and OSP, and for academic promotion. Staff webpages link directly to their list of reported publications.
Reports
Staff, students and visitors can search the University's publication reports by individual researcher, or by School or Faculty for a specific year.
New Staff
Staff who are new to Deakin can have their older publications (from 2005 on) added to their record at Deakin. Please contact Katrina Fleming or Bronwyn Kelly for details.
DRO - Open Public Access
The Deakin Research Online (DRO) repository has been established in order to make Deakin's research highly visible and accessible through a global network of services such as OAIster, ARROW, Google Scholar and Internet search engines.
All staff and student research publications are now being entered onto DRO, where open access to full text versions can be made possible in most instances. Data is extracted from DRO for the annual HERDC submission and to update reports on the University’s Research website.
Where the publisher allows open access to the published version, that will be made visible on DRO.
DRO Reports
DRO may be searched by Author, Subject or ‘Community/Collection’ (includes Schools and the Faculty of Business and Law) as well as by advanced search combinations.
Queries - contact
| Katrina Fleming | Bronwyn Kelly |
| ext 73362 | ext 72442 |
