The document discusses the UCT Research Portal, including its statistics and most accessed pages from May 2012. It provides screenshots of the portal's current and planned interfaces. Key pages include those on funding opportunities, bibliographic tools, and research outputs. Integrating student, financial, and publication data from other university systems into personalized researcher profiles is planned for future phases to create a more unified portal experience.

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

2. We’re live….

3. Home Page –
accessible via
standard login

4. 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-links
http://www.icts.uct.ac.za/modules.php
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/research-portal-news

5. Access Statistics to May 2012:
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
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-links
http://www.icts.uct.ac.za/modules.php
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/research-portal-news

6. News feed direct from
UCT Research Office
site

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Sample view

14. Sample equipment entry

15. Home Page access to blogs and resources related to UCT Research

16. …and especially
this…B-)

17. The way we thought it should be (mid-2011)
eResearch Tab on
UCT Home Page
Outside View
Showcase
Scholarly Search Research
Profiles
work Experts Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
My
Storage
My Students My Contracts
Finance My Staff
My Grants My Ethics
HR Research Office
Inside View

18. The way we think it should be now (mid-2012):
eResearch Tab on
Showcase = Research Office Site UCT Home Page
Login to all resources via single name/password
Experts
Research
Scholarly Outputs Profiles Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
My
Storage
My Students My Contracts
Finance My Staff
My Grants My Ethics
HR Research Office
Secure access for researchers to portal; public access to RO site

19. What is happening now? Phase 1, live Feb 2012
Created and linked / redesigned Web pages, linked a database, established Portal site
Research
Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository My eResearch Tools
NOTE: we presently do not know what to use for Portal – several options exist
NOTE 2: FULL implementation has to wait for UCT Web renewal

20. What is planned for longer term?
Phase 2, live by Nov 2012
Create some dynamic access links to Irma / other databases, create templated Profiles
which include “Scholarly Resources” – publication lists and other forms of publication
Search Experts
Research
Scholarly Outputs Profiles Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
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?

21. What requires serious integration?
All modules that get information from other systems: SAP for finances, PeopleSoft for
student information, University Office for ethics, contracts and publication counts
Experts
Research
Scholarly Outputs Profiles Facilities
Libraries Vula
and My
Repository Tools
My eResearch
My
Storage
My Students My Contracts
Finance My Staff
My Grants My Ethics
HR Research Office