Abstract

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.

Highlights

  • Academic staff research output appears to be the key driver in personal and institutional status and survival because significant, and increasingly selective, funding flows from the results of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). This affects funding for the following five to six years and departments and individuals can rise or fall as a result of a good or bad rating. This has had a major impact on both the drive to publish and on the quality of publications.This paper will focus on the impact on serial publications, taken from the personal viewpoint of the Chair of the 2001 RAE Panel 61: Library and Information Management

  • It will look in some detail at how quality has been challenged by the pressure on academics to publish and how this appears to have affected the quality of journal publication

  • To set the context for this paper it is important to recognize that this is a personal view of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)

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Summary

The impact of the Research Assessment Exercise on serial publication

The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has had a huge impact on universities in the UK. Academic staff research output appears to be the key driver in personal and institutional status and survival because significant, and increasingly selective, funding flows from the results of the RAE This affects funding for the following five to six years and departments and individuals can rise or fall as a result of a good or bad rating. This has had a major impact on both the drive to publish and on the quality of publications.This paper will focus on the impact on serial publications, taken from the personal viewpoint of the Chair of the 2001 RAE Panel 61: Library and Information Management. The presenter will explore, in discussion, the implications for serial publication in the future

Background
The importance of RAE
How assessments are made
Quality of published work
Dangers of pressure to publish
The future of RAE
Conclusion
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