Conference Publication - E1

• Eligibility
• Exclusions
• Verification Material
• More Information

Eligibility

[4.7.1] To be included in this category the conference publication must meet the definition of research (see section 1.2, Definition of Research) as amplified in the key characteristics of research publications (see section 4.1, Key Characteristics) and must:

• be published. The papers may appear in a number of different formats, e.g. a volume of proceedings, a special edition of a journal, a normal issue of a journal, a book or a monograph, CD Rom or conference or organisational website
• be peer reviewed (see section 4.3.5, Peer Review)
• be presented at conferences, workshops or seminars of national or international significance.

The author must be affiliated with the claiming institution.

As meetings called 'workshops' or 'seminars' generally have lower status than meetings called 'conferences', universities must be able to demonstrate clearly that they have national or international significance and include the evidence with the verification materials, as for any conference.

Keynote addresses may be included where all other papers for the conference are peer reviewed, and evidence is provided both of the keynote status of the address (e.g. contents page) and of the other contributions to the conference being peer reviewed (e.g. a statement in the introduction to proceedings indicating this).

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Exclusions

[4.7.1.1] The types of conference publications that are unlikely to meet the criteria include: papers that appear only in a volume handed out to conference participants.

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Verification Material

For all publications, the university must be able to provide the following, if required, by the Commonwealth or for a publications audit:

• photocopies of contents, preface, introduction and pages showing all bibliographical information (ISBN or ISSN, author(s), publisher, all dates referring to copyright, publication, printing and distribution)
• evidence indicating the author's affiliation to the university.

Additional material required in each of the publications categories include:

Conference Publications

• copy or offprint of paper
• proof of peer reviewing as described in section 4.3.5, Peer Review
• proof of national or international significance if not shown in other information already required.

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More Information

For more information review the 2007 Higher Education Research Data Collection Specifications for the Collection of 2006 data (PDF, 196Kb).

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