Higher Education Research Data Collection Publications

The purpose of the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) is to collect performance data on research income and research publications to be used to assess the relative research and research training performance of universities and in turn drives the allocation of funding.

To view your previously submitted HERDC publications (from 2001), please visit the Researcher's Portal.

News

From January 1 2013, the Library administers the UWS publication collection and publications for HERDC audit and ERA will be delivered to the Office of Research Services by the Library.

You will find the following enhancements:

  1. There is the option to upload materials at the time of submission.
    • if you choose this method of providing evidence of your publication, the materials will not need to be physically posted.
    • If you prefer to post the materials, these must now be sent to: Information Services, Ward Library, Building BA, Werrington South Campus. Do not send materials to ORS.
  2. The Library will begin harvesting publication details from major sources.
    • Harvesting will initially be only from Scopus. Other sources will follow, including Web of Science, Informit and Proquest. Automatically harvesting your publications from these sources will significantly reduce the need to manually enter publication details, as the Library expects to retrieve 50% to 70% of publications by this method. As new Researchers join UWS, their publication information will be automatically harvested.
  3. The Library will be authoritative source for all UWS publications via the Research Repository.
    • The Library will be both source and lodgement point for all publications, including non-ERA and non-HERDC outputs.
    • The Library will work closely with ORS, forwarding the HERDC audit verification materials that you will lodge with the Library.
    • The Researcher Portal will display HERDC & ERA audited performance data only.
  4. Displaying publication details in the institutional repository will enable compliance of ARC (opens in a new window) and NHMRC (opens in a new window) mandates as well as providing increased exposure to UWS publications.
  5. Publications will not appear in the repository or in the researchers portal until materials have been provided and proof of HERDC requirements have been obtained.
  6. ORS will maintain responsibility for the HERDC audit of publications.

Publications Workflow

Publications workflow

Publications workflow

Publications workflow

Publications workflow

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Submit your publication 

To submit any publication visit UWS Library Publications. 

Before submitting your publication, please ensure it is not already in the Research Repository as the Library harvests UWS publications from a variety of sources on your behalf.

Note: Enter ‘Published’ items only. ‘In press’ items are not eligible and will be deleted.

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Lodgement date

To enable the Office of Research Services to meet the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education deadline, your publications need to be lodged and verification materials received as early as possible. Office of Research Services progressively validates lodgements until the end of April for the previous calendar year. For example, a 2012 publication can be lodged up to 30 April 2013.

Any lodgements submitted after 30 April 2013 will be at risk of not being included unless ALL verification materials are received without delay and require no further validation.

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Requirements and definitions

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