Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) is working in partnership with the UK’s four higher education funding bodies and publishers in order to facilitate secure electronic access to journal articles and other research outputs for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
The REF team have published draft Guidance and Criteria for the Institutional-Level Environment Pilot, which will be undertaken in parallel to the unit level assessment in REF 2021. This publication is supplementary to the Guidance on submissions (REF 2019/01) and the Panel criteria and working methods (REF 2019/02) and will be consulted on with the sector at HEI events in May 2019.
The four funding bodies are holding three engagement workshops for HEI representatives on the draft guidance and criteria for the institutional-level environment pilot.
The REF team have written to heads of institutions to formally invite them to submit a code of practice for REF 2021. The deadline for submitting the codes of practice is 12 noon on 7 June 2019.
