Open Impact
(this project has ended)

Open Impact is a project to help collect evidence about the impact of research that has been undertaken in UK universities and to provide it to a range of stakeholders (government, funders, press etc) through an independent third party agency (a learned society). The project focuses on a specific discipline (Computer Science) mediated through a particular society (the British Computer Society).
In particular, this project will produce software that helps to make institutional repositories effective in collecting evidence of the impact of their institutions’ research – evidence that justifies the investment that government and research funders have made and that promotes the role of Universities in society.

Type: Normal Research Project
Research Group: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Themes: Digital Libraries, Web Science
Dates: 1st January 2010 to 30th June 2010

Relevant Links

• Project Blog

Keywords

• EPrints
• RAE
• REF
• repositories
• research evaluation
• research impact

Partners

• British Computer Society

Funding

• JISC

Principal Investigators

• Leslie Carr
• Dr Mark J Weal
• Joyce Lewis