Publications Project Scope and Policy Laboratory Meetings

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Publications ProjectScope and Policy Laboratory
Meetings
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CURRENT SITUATION

• Stakeholder Reporting
• Costly and inaccurate data and reports
• Researchers
• Must use broken publications wizard process
• Must then re-report publications multiple times
• Maintain own private publication lists/web pages
• NICTA
• Different IP approval processes across NICTA
• Publication wizard ID is not a proper TR number
• No coherent view of publications on website

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IDEAL SITUATATION

• A simple system that works
• Single source of publication status and data
• Satisfy NICTAs reporting needs
• Minimize data entry burden for Researchers
• Value for Researchers to ensure data quality
• Enable presentation on NICTA website
• Acceptable NICTA Technical Reports (ID, quality)
• Standard across NICTA sites
• IT system and policy and procedures

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WANTED AGREEMENT

• Approval policy and procedures
• Kinds of approvals required?
• Who can approve?
• Who requires approval?
• Scope of Publications Project
• Types of Publications in scope?

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USING PUBLICATIONS DATA

• Use publication lists in Performance Reviews
• NICTA official reports
• Researcher biographies/web pages
• NICTA publication web pages

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APPROVAL PROCESSES

• What formal approvals are required?
• IP approval ?, Quality approval ?
• Re-submitted papers can reuse 1st IP approval? ?
• Who can approve publications?
• Program leaders ?, Lab directors ?
• Project leaders? ?
• Can you approve your own publications? ?
• In event of unavailable approver
• Delegation? ?
• Researchers choose from a list of approvers? ?

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WHO REQUIRES APPROVAL

• NICTA Students ?
• Students who have assigned IP to NICTA ?
• NICTA-employed Researchers ?
• Contributed NICTA Researchers ?
• Part-contributed staff not listing NICTA
  affiliation ?
• Any NICTA staff (researchers or not) writing for
  publication in any ICT-related area ?
• Author with a NICTA affiliation, but with
  non-NICTA co-author who is primary or contact
  author ?

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TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS?
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OTHER RELATED PROJECTS

• Data and Metrics
• Consolidate simplify data collection
  reporting
• Publications project is a part of this, but
  bigger!
• Web Steering Committee
• New NICTA website
• Need to take data from publications database to
  present publication information on website

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PUBLICATION PROCESS
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OBTAIN NICTA IP APPROVAL AND WRITE DRAFT
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GAIN ACCEPTANCE FOR PUBLICATION
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HAVE PUBLISHED PROCESS