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Higher Education Funding Council
A document that sets out the proposals of the four UK higher education funding bodies for the second Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the assessment of research in UK higher education institutions. The proposals seek to build on the first REF conducted in 2014, and to incorporate the principles identified in Lord Stern’s Independent Review of the REF.
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5-year subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.
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Show us your research two days before publishing, government orders academics
Research must be sent to DfE two days before publishing