Publication Collections

The University of Sydney is currently collecting research publication information and documentation for two projects:

Higher Education Resarch Data Collection (HERDC)

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

This website is aimed at providing information, support and resources to administrators working on the HERDC collection only.

HERDC

The Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) is an annual collection of Publications and research income data, which is used by the government to determine funding for each tertiary education institution.

The Research Office collects research publication information from university staff, students and affiliates from all faculties across the university. It is important that each faculty and department within the University of Sydney, accurately reports their research publications data each year, in order to get vital financial funding.


Research Publication data

The HERDC publication data collection is coordinated centrally in the Research Office with the assistance of Faculty, School and Department administrators.

There are four publication types which are eligible for the HERDC collection:

• Book – Authored Research (A1)
• Book Chapter – Commercial Publisher (B1)
• Journal Article – Refereed, Scholarly Journal (C1)
• Conference Publication – Full Paper Refereed (E1)

Research Income data

The research income data collection is coordinated by Corporate Finance.
Visit the University of Sydney Corporate Finance website

ERA

The Australian government is introducing a new system of assessing Research Activity. It is called Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA).

The main differences with ERA:

• Current affiliation - affiliation with the university is based on where the academic/affiliate is now rather than where they did the work.
• Longer Time frames - publication information will be collected for a 6 year period of time and grant and applied research measures for a 3 year period of of time instead of the one year time span of the HERDC collection.
• Additional Information collected - in addition to research publication and income, ERA is also collecting information for creative works, applied research measures, esteem measures and commercialisation income.

ERA related online information:

• For more information on the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), visit the Australian Research Council (ARC) website for the ERA.
• The University of Sydney has a dedicated website for Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), ERA website.