Researchfish
Background
Researchfish is a Research Outcomes System designed to enable researchers to report once across multiple funders, re-use their data for their own use and control who sees and accesses their data. It has a simple one-click environment for adding research outcomes to be stored and/or attributed to an award. A researcher, or one of their delegates, can add, edit and delete entries, and attribute entries to awards they hold or to one of their CV’s held in the Researchfish Portal.
On this page we will give you updates when certain funders ask researchers to report outputs relating to their projects via Researchfish.
Funders who currently use Researchfish include BHF, MRC and STFC. More funders are going to join, so for a full list please see the Researchfish website.
STFC Researchfish Outputs Collection 2013
STFC is rolling out the Researchfish system to ensure that it has a robust, repeatable method to collect accurate data on the outputs of its research funding.
PI's who currently hold an STFC grant, and also grant holders whose awards closed after 1/1/2006, are being asked to report the outputs relating to their projects using the Researchfish online system. Although the system is open for submission at any time of year, the current reporting period ends 31/3/2013 and PIs are requested to complete a submission before that date.
STFC notes that it collects this data to "strengthen the evidence base STFC has to draw upon for strategic decision-making, for evaluating progress, and to better understand the research system", and also that "from 2012 the output data formally submitted via STFC e-Val will be loaded into the RCUK 'Gateway to Research'. The RCUK Gateway to Research website will publish grant and output information from across all research councils. This information will be open for anyone to search and download. Principal Investigators should understand that outputs formally submitted via ResearchFish may be published verbatim and attributed online via the RCUK Gateway to Research website."
Further information from the STFC about the exercise is provided on the STFC website.