The UCT Research Portal:a head-in-the-clouds view

We’re live….

Home Page –accessible viastandard login

Access Statistics to May 2012:

These are the top referrers in order:http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/commerce/news/2012/pages/eresearch.asp http://www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za/ http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/research-help/research-support-linkshttp://www.icts.uct.ac.za/modules.phphttp://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/research-portal-news

Access Statistics to May 2012:

These are the top referrers in order:http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/commerce/news/2012/pages/eresearch.asp http://www.researchoffice.uct.ac.za/ http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/research-help/research-support-linkshttp://www.icts.uct.ac.za/modules.phphttp://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/research-portal-news

Top destinations (pages being visited):1. funding.aspx 2. referencing.aspx 3. blogroll-and-archives.aspx 4. scientific-computing.aspx 5. research-facilities.aspx 6. dataservices.aspx 7. datasets-and-collections.aspx 8. ratingassessments.aspx 9. researchresources.aspx

News feed direct from UCT Research Office site

Most accessed resource: note Research Professional Africa site is a highly comprehensive and up-to-date catalogue of Africa-specific funding opportunities worldwide

Second most popular page: a collection of bibliographic tools for management of formal and informal publications and constructing reference lists

Increasingly popular page: access to various means of accurately assessing your own or others’ publication outputs – including informal or social media mentions

Collaboration tools for research: these include popular public tools like Dropbox, as well as UCT-specific tools like Vula and Sharepoint / MESH. Video conferencing information is also available.

The UCT HPC cluster recently achieved the impressive benchmark of 100,000 computing hours in 1 year. The support team has an excellent record in adapting all sorts of software to run on the cluster and on the SA Grid.

The Research Facilities database is a rapidly-growing interactive register of top-end research equipment and facilities at UCT. It provides instant access to information on what is available, whether it can be accessed by outsiders, and what the costs of operation / use are.

Sample view

Sample equipment entry

Home Page access to blogs and resources related to UCT Research

…and especiallythis…B-)

Research Office

Showcase

My eResearch

Scholarly work Profiles Search

Experts

My Ethics

Research Facilities

Finance

VulaLibraries and

Repository

My Storage

My Tools

My Grants

HR

Outside View

My Staff

eResearch Tab onUCT Home Page

Inside View

My Students My Contracts

The way we thought it should be (mid-2011)

Research Office

My eResearch

My Ethics

Research Facilities

Finance

VulaLibraries and

Repository

My Storage

My Tools

My Grants

HR

My Staff

eResearch Tab onUCT Home Page

My Students My Contracts

Scholarly Outputs Profiles

Experts

Showcase = Research Office Site

The way we think it should be now (mid-2012):

Secure access for researchers to portal; public access to RO site

Login to all resources via single name/password

What is happening now? Phase 1, live Feb 2012

My eResearch

Research Facilities

VulaLibraries and

Repository

My Tools

Created and linked / redesigned Web pages, linked a database, established Portal site

NOTE: we presently do not know what to use for Portal – several options existNOTE 2: FULL implementation has to wait for UCT Web renewal

What is planned for longer term? Phase 2, live by Nov 2012

My eResearch

Research Facilities

VulaLibraries and

Repository

My Tools

Scholarly Outputs Profiles

Create some dynamic access links to Irma / other databases, create templated Profiles which include “Scholarly Resources” – publication lists and other forms of publication

NOTE: both Scholarly Resources and Profiles require significant development and policy decisions. Eg: SR not just database output; also represents “non conventional” publications for Humanities etc – video, digitised artworks?

Search Experts

What requires serious integration?

My eResearch

Research Facilities

VulaLibraries and

Repository

My Tools

Research Office

My EthicsFinance

My Storage

My Grants

HR

My Staff My Students

Scholarly Outputs Profiles

Experts

My Contracts

All modules that get information from other systems: SAP for finances, PeopleSoft for student information, University Office for ethics, contracts and publication counts