Conferences

Requirements

• must meet the definition of research
• must be published in full
  • papers can appear in a number of different formats, e.g. a volume of proceedings, a special edition of a journal, a normal issue of a journal, a book or a monograph, CD-ROM or conference or organisational website.
• must have been peer-reviewed
• be presented at conferences, workshops or seminars of national or international significance
• the author must be affiliated with USQ
• be published in 2011 to be claimed in the 2012 HERDC submission

Conference publications do not require an ISBN or need to be published by a commercial publisher.

The types of conference publications that do not meet the criteria include:

• papers that appear only in a volume handed out to conference participants
• keynote addresses
• plenary addresses
• poster presentations
• abstracts of conference publications

Verification material to be provided

• Paper or offprint of paper (published version)
• Contents, preface and introduction
• Pages showing all relevant bibliographic information (ISBN/ISSN - if applicable, title, editor, authors, publisher, publication/print/copyright dates)
• Proof of national/international significance if not clearly shown in documents above
• By-line or footnote or statement in publication indicating research undertaken in author’s capacity as a staff member or student of USQ
• Peer-review evidence
• Proof of keynote status (if applicable)

Source:

2012 HERDC specifications for the collection of 2010 data (PDF 312 KB), Research Funding and Policy Branch, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Australian Government.

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