Publications

Each year, the Office of Research and Higher Degrees (ORHD) coordinates the collection of publication data by research staff and students.

The objective of this annual collection is to

• understand the scope of research activities undertaken at US
• publish the findings in USQ ePrints
• comply with the requirements of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) Higher Education Research Data Collection (PDF* 312KB), HERDC, which determines allocations of research funding for Internal Research Grants and the Research Training Scheme (RTS).
• comply with Australian Research Council’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) collection

Publication categories

USQ collects information on the following publication categories, however only A1, B, C1 and E1 categories enable the University to receive Commonwealth funding.

All publications must be submitted to USQ ePrints.

• Books:
  A1 – authored research
  A2 – authored other
  A3 – edited book
  A4 – revised edition of a book
• Book chapters:
  B – authored book chapter
• Journal articles:
  C1 – refereed research article
  C2 – refereed other article
  C3 – non refereed article
  C4 – letter
• Conferences:
  E1 – full refereed research paper
  E2 – full non-refereed paper
  E3 – paper extract
  E4 – editorial responsibility for conference publication

It is the responsibility of each faculty and section to ensure that all publications produced by their staff and students are deposited into ePrints to enable the Library and Office of Research and Higher Degrees to verify and validate the publications. 

Submission timelines

Please submit all 2011 publication data to your Faculty Research Office as soon as possible after it has been published and ensure your submission of 2011 publications is completed by Wednesday 29 February 2012.

All 2010 publications are being assessed for commonwealth reporting. Please ensure that any 2010 publications you have not yet entered or 2010 publications which are published before 30 June 2011 are entered into ePrints as soon as possible.

Publication Information Sessions

Information sessions have been held across faculties, departments and centres during February and early March 2011 to ensure that all staff are aware of the changes that have taken place with the merge of USQ's two previous publication systems. The sessions addressed:

• the reasons for change
• what was changed
• changes to current and future workflow arrangements
• where to go for more information

If you were unable to attend one of these sessions, please ensure you go through the Publication Data Collection presentation (PDF* 1.0 MB) as there are substantial changes taking place for 2011 publications.

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR) and ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) codes

Feld of Research codes and Socio-Economic Objective codes will assist you in categorising publications according to the field of research undertaken and the socio-economic objectives.

Further enquiries

Further enquiries relating to the collection of publications data, should be directed to herdc@usq.edu.au.

*This file is in Portable Document Format (PDF) which requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. A free copy of Acrobat Reader may be obtained from Adobe. Users who are unable to access information in PDF should contact herdc@usq.edu.au to obtain this information in an alternative format.