Research Resources

Altmetrics for Institutions

Altmetrics for Institutions is a web-based platform that enables you to search, monitor and measure online conversations surrounding the research outputs of specific authors, research groups and departments at your institution. This data can support institutions in several key areas, including:

• Increasing & Evidencing Engagement with Your Research – Monitor early engagement and be aware of who is talking about your research, and what they’re saying. Ensure that your researcher is accurately reported and communicated.
• Funding – Find evidence of broader impact and engagement for use in funding applications, and to showcase the attention your research generates.

Funding Institutional

Funding Institutional combines over 18,000 active funding opportunities with information on over 6.3 million awarded research grants from a wide-range of funders.

Search easily for active, accurate funding opportunities in a timely manner from over 4,300 government and private funding organizations, and by offering insight into research that has already been funded in your area of interest.

Funding Institutional is integrated into Pure so that you can access opportunities from Pure or Funding Institutional directly and easily share opportunities with colleagues.

Pure

Pure is the University of Northampton’s current research information system and is also our portal to the world, showcasing the research outputs, projects, datasets and activities of our researchers.

Pure Award Management

Pure Award Management is the University’s award system which enables the Research and Innovation Funding Support team to track, monitor and manage bid-related activity. Integrated in Pure, the system allows academics and researchers to create applications for funding, obtain institutional approval and keep track of their applications.

Pure Award Management also captures post award by the creation of awards and projects for successful bids. Academics and researchers can store post award documentation, record and track time spent on a project and create milestones. Research activities (datasets, equipment, impact, outputs and papers) can be linked to the project.

Pure Award Management enables applications, awards and projects to be stored in one location making it an ideal one-stop source for your research.

Viva Engage

Viva Engage is the tool used for all communications from Research & Knowledge Exchange teams – providing support for all staff and students at the University of Northampton.

• Creative Commons – a guide to creative commons licencing
• Home – BCC (britishcopyright.org) – guide & up to date information on British copyright
• Seeking Permission to use someone else’s work
• Orphan Works
• WATCH (Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders) – a database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent figures in other creative fields.
• Third Party Copyright
• Guidance on managing copyright under UKRI open access policy – UKRI
• Sherpa/Romeo – Check Journal Policies

• A-Z Databases – a rich source of data repositories
• DMPonline – create data management plans
• Digital Curation Centre
• MRC Data Sharing Information
• MRC Data Sharing Policy
• Data Journals
• Data Management Costing Tool

• Introduction to Digital Preservation
• Digital Preservation Handbook
• UK Data Archive

• Ethical Considerations in Research | Types and Examples
• UKRI Research Ethics Guidance
• BPS (British Psychological Society) Code of Human Research Ethics
• WHO tool for benchmarking ethics oversight of health-related research involving human participants

• Fast Track Impact – evidence-based resources and training for researchers
• Fast Track Impact Podcast Professor Mark Reed gives practical tips and discusses how you can enhance the impact of your research
• Impact Literacy Workbook – focuses on integrating impact at any stage of the research to impact process
• Becker Medical Library (Biological Sciences) – framework for tracking diffusion of research outputs and activities to locate indicators that demonstrate evidence of biomedical research impact

Impact is an increasingly pressing issue for funders of research projects with a majority of funders now specifically requiring an impact plan as a condition of their grant. These funders have resources and tools that you can access to develop the level of impact planning that they require in funding applications:

• NIHR Plan for Impact
• ESRC Impact Toolkit
• EPSRC Impact Framework
• BBSRC Impact Guidance
• MRC Impact Guidance

• UON Responsible Metrics Policy
• Altmetrics
• Declaration on Research Assessment (DoRA)
• UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics
• The Metric Tide Revisited
• Meaningful Metrics

• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) – Provides more than 120 million documents from more than 6,000 sources
• CORE (COnecting REpositories) – An aggregation of open access content from UK and worldwide repositories and open access journals
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – academic open access books from hundreds of publishers
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – global list of fully OA journals
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) – A searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents.

• CORE Discovery – An in-browser extension from CORE –additionally recommends OA articles on a similar subject if the article is paywalled
• Open Access Button – Automatically detects paywalled articles and presents an open access alternative.
• Unpaywall – An extension which searches for free scholarly articles when the published version is behind a paywall
• Direct2AAM – Shows authors how to retrieve their accepted manuscript from most common publisher submission tools

• How to make your work open access by Peter Suber
• Introduction to Open Access by JISC
• Open Access and the Humanities – Martin Paul Eve
• Open Access Resource Centre – Useful News and Resources
• Open Access timeline/chronology by Marie Lebert
• Open innovation, open science, open to the world – Key concepts of open science and open innovation

• Think Check Submit – A site that assists researchers in identifying trusted journals for their research
• Sherpa/Romeo  – Check Journal Policies
• ORCID  (a unique identifier for academics)
• NHS Publishing Research Findings