Assessing research in the United Kingdom: the Research Assessment Exercise 2001

Abstract

In the United Kingdom the quality of research in Higher Education Institutions is assessed on a regular basis via the Research Assessment Exercises. The outcome determines the allocation of grants for research in the following period of assessment. They are very important and, for the first time, records management is explicitly identified in the scope of the Library and Information Management Panel‘s subject area for the next exercise. In this article the chair of that panel reflects on the exercises to date, the policies to be adopted in 2001 and a brief discussion of the Library and Information Panel (Unit of Assessment 61).

Citation

Elkin, J. (1999), "Assessing research in the United Kingdom: the Research Assessment Exercise 2001", Records Management Journal, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 207-213. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000007251