Further to last week's Faculty Research Committee, the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences is urging all research active staff to:i) Set up a Google Scholar profile, setting it to public. Google Scholar is increasingly used as an investigative tool by assessors reviewing grants and applicants, and the Faculty would like this to be in place as soon as possible to enable external reviewers to easily find and confirm information on you, and support on grant reviews in the coming months.
ii) Register for an ORCID ID (https://orcid.org/register). ORCID provides you with a unique identifier that enables accurate attribution of all of your publications to you, avoiding incorrect attribution of publications by authors e.g. on PubMed, who share the same name and initials as you. ORCID IDs are being used increasingly, both internally within the University and externally, to track publication data.
iii) Be thinking within your lab teams and with collaborators about strategies in regards to applying for NHMRC funding in the new NHMRC Funding scheme, due to commence in 2019. The Faculty will be providing further input on this in coming weeks.
iv) RGMS (the NHMRC Grant Management System) is being superseded by a new Grant Management System (GMS), with the change being scheduled for September 2018. All data currently held within RGMS will be automatically migrated across to the new GMS. Having an ORCID ID is likely to be a new field within this system. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to have an ORCID ID in place soon.
Please contact Michael Hickey, the SCS representative on the Faculty's Research Committee if you have any questions.