2003 PUBLICATIONS COLLECTION

Further Information

Author's Affiliation

For the collection of 2003 Research Publications DEST have reinstated the following guideline.

Institutional affiliation must be identified either:

within or on the work being claimed; or
where institutional affiliation is not identified within a work, the university must obtain a statement from the author indicating that he or she undertook the research leading to the publication in his or her capacity as a staff member or student of the university; and * either:

a statement from the Director of Human Resources or Dean of Students (or equivalent) indicating that the author was an appointee or student of the university in 2003 (or earlier if that was when the research leading to the publication was conducted), or

an extract from the university's staff or student list that lists the author.

Where a publication shows that an author has affiliation to more than one institution (eg Janet Harvey, Tutor in Economics, University of X; PhD student, University of Y), each Australian university named in that by-line can claim the publication at full value.

Adjunct fellows, honorary staff members and staff on leave are considered affiliated with a university if the university is identified in the by-line.

An Author affiliation statement satisfying the DEST requirement is available for you to download (see Attachment 5: Author's Affiliation Certificate)

Key Characteristics of Research Publications

For the purposes of this collection, a "research publication" is characterised by:

Scholarly activity, as evidenced by discussion of the relevant literature, an awareness of the history and antecedents of work described, and a format which allows a reader to trace sources of the work through citations, footnotes etc;
Originality, that is, it is not a compilation of existing works;
Veracity/validity through a peer validation processes or by satisfying the commercial publisher or gallery processes;
Increasing the stock of knowledge; and
Being in a form that enables dissemination of knowledge.

Each research publication can only be counted once. If, for example, a conference paper is published in conference proceedings and is subsequently included as a chapter in a book, it can be counted as a chapter or as a conference paper but not both.

DEST Definition of Research Activity

For the purposes of this collection, the essential characteristic of research activity is that it leads to publicly verifiable outcomes which are open to peer appraisal.

Research and experimental development comprises:

Creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications ⁽¹⁾.
Any activity classified as research and experimental development is characterised by originality; it should have investigation as a primary objective and should have the potential to produce results that are sufficiently general for humanity's stock of knowledge (theoretical and/or practical) to be recognisably increased. Most higher education research work would qualify as research and experimental development.

Research includes pure basic research, strategic basic research, applied research and experimental development

Activities that support research and therefore meet the definition of research include:

provision of professional, technical, administrative or clerical support and/or assistance to staff directly engaged in research and experimental development;

management of staff who are either directly engaged in research and experimental development or are providing professional, technical or clerical support or assistance to those staff;
activities of students undertaking postgraduate research courses;
development of postgraduate research courses; and
supervision of students undertaking postgraduate research courses.