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IRIS News
| 08.04.2013 | InFocus: Researcher ID integrates with ORCID to make accurate attribution easier |
Accurate attribution has always been a challenge in the scholarly sphere. Thomson Reuters has long known this, hence the creation of ResearcherID and founding membership in the ORCID initiative, a universal author ID that is integrated across the Thomson Reuters suite of products.
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| 07.12.2012 | New Development Coming Soon! |
Annual Consultancy declaration for Academic Staff (proposed go live early 2013)
The development of a web-based Consultancy Declaration process, hosted by IRIS, is underway and is expected to be available shortly. Users will be able to submit a return for any external consultancy or other remunerated activity undertaken during the academic year in one quick, easy and simple step to the Research office via IRIS.
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| 08.11.2012 | Launch of IRIS Research Grants |
UCC Research Support Services are pleased to announce the integration of IRIS with Agresso. Using a feed from the Agresso system, this enhancement facilitates the transfer of research grant information to the IRIS profile of the Lead Investigator.
So what’s new?
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| 05.10.2012 | IRIS Proposals - Reminder |
As previously announced, IRIS Proposals, an online application that allows users to record, manage and track internal approval for their research funding proposals, is now available to users
Paper Appendix A documents will no longer be accepted by the Research Office from 1st November 2012. After this time, all new funding proposals must be completed via IRIS.
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| 25.09.2012 | Author Identity |
The biggest single stumbling-block in the way to reliable citation is the identity of the authors: is that Smith, J over there the same one as that James Q Smith over here? There have been proprietary attempts to rationalise this before. but they have foundered on their restrictions.
A new project called ORCID is now trying to make a global unique identifier for authors, like the ISBN is for books and the DOI is for articles. UCC is a member of the project and we are monitoring developments so that we don't get left behind
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| 19.07.2012 | Wellcome Trust Strengthens its open access Policy |
Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust has
recently notified UCC that the Wellcome Trust will be enforcing compliance with
their open access policy from 28 July 2012 onwards. This grant condition
requires that peer-reviewed original research papers funded in whole or in part
by the Wellcome Trust ‘must be made available through UK Pub Med Central or
PubMed Central repositories within 6 months of publication’. The Wellcome Trust
is committed to open access to ensure that the results of research they have
funded is freely available and ‘can be built on and used in a manner that
maximises health and public benefit.’
For future publications, if you upload the accepted version of your paper to
CORA, UCC's Institutional repository through your IRIS profile, UCC Library
staff will ensure that it complies with the Wellcome Trust open access policy.
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| 07.06.2012 | Launch of IRIS Social Media |
The IRIS team is
pleased to announce the launch of our Facebook page and twitter account!
Our new pages will allow researchers to connect with the public and share
information about UCC Research.
Through our Facebook
page and twitter account, we aim to deepen and broaden our contact with diverse
national and international organisations.
Our page will
highlight up-to-date information about UCC's research community; we'll also
share information and resources you can use.
We invite you
to 'like' our Facebook page or follow us on twitter and start a conversation
with us!
We welcome your input
and feedback
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| 01.06.2012 | Launch of President's Report 2010/2011 |
The President’s Report 2010/2011 is a comprehensive review of activities across UCC for the 2010/2011 academic year
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| 07.02.2012 | Launch of IRIS Proposals |
IRIS Proposals, a new online application that allows researchers to record, manage and track internal approval for their research funding proposals, will be launched on March 12th.
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| 28.09.2011 | IRIS Launch of version 2.5 |
T he Research Office is pleased to launch the new and improved version of the Institutional Research Information System (IRIS) on 27/09/2011. As well as continuing to provide a number of advantages, the new version of IRIS benefits from enhanced functionality.
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| 28.08.2011 | NEW - Upcoming Training Dates |
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| 18.02.2011 | President's Report |
The President’s Report 2009/2010 is a comprehensive review of activities across UCC for the 2009/2010 academic year
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| 16.02.2011 | IRIS Progress Report - February 2011 |
We have successfully completed the IRIS Rollout to all Academic Schools and Departments across UCC.
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| 09.12.2010 | IRIS Training Demos added! |
New flash movies have been added to the IRIS Training link in the menu on the left of the IRIS project page.
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