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16 Jul 2015: There is an increased emphasis on managing and sharing data produced in research. Many of the research funders supporting work at the University of Cambridge require that research data are openly available with as few restrictions as possible.

4 Jun 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. New ESRC research data policy. Published on Thu, 04/06/2015 - 10:14.

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Wellcome Trust: new initiatives. Published on Tue, 21/04/2015 - 12:23. ... Non-compliant publications will be discounted as part of a researcher's track record in any renewal of an existing grant or new grant

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Wellcome Trust New Grants System. Published on Tue, 21/04/2015 - 12:23. ... The Wellcome Trust have announced that they will be launching their new grants management system in May 2015.

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Change to ESRC grant procedures for new awards. ... The ESRC has just announced a change to its grant procedures for new awards.

21 Apr 2015: The minutes for the RGUG held on Thursday 24 July 2014 are now available on the ROO websitePlease note that the next meeting been re-scheduled for 16 October 2014 (previously 30 October 2014) at 9:30am and will be held at the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms,

21 Apr 2015: from anywhere in the world. The new system has already been used to. ... create over 200 new proposals and users have been supported by the Research.

21 Apr 2015: Researchers that have previously registered should use their existing Researchfish login details, or request a new password at.

21 Apr 2015: 1. The New Funder Form has been updated with an additional funder budget heading and is available here.. ... 2. A new line has been added to the warnings section (p6) of the Validation Guide and is available here..

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. New funder requirements for sharing research data.

19 Mar 2015: Published on 19 March 2015. The Wellcome Trust have announced that they will be launching their new grants management system in May 2015. ... There will be a transition period from May – September when this new system will run in parallel to eGrants.

21 Apr 2015: Two short videos demonstrating how to use two tools in X5, 'the Project Setup Wizard' and 'Submitting a costing', have been published on the Research Operations Office X5 website.Further videos will be published over the coming weeks demonstrating

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. News from Finance: Cognos PI Report now available.

21 Apr 2015: The first rounds of Early Adopters training have taken place this week and these users can now create live costings in X5.For more information on X5, training and live roll out, please visit http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/applying/x5

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Changes to pFACT: New BHF Student Maintenance Rates. ... The new rates will be added to pFACT on Monday 8 November 2010 between 8:00 am and 10:00 am during which time the system will be vulnerable.

21 Apr 2015: As part of the Terms and Conditions of some of our research funders, they require evidence of an individual’s time worked on an award. These sponsors include the Research Councils (RC), European Commission (EC) and National Institute of Health (NIH

4 Jun 2015: The content will include; using the Project Wizard to generate a costing, adding staff and non-staff costs, the differences between copying to a draft or new record, printing reports and

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be upgraded on Monday 3rd March and to allow MISD time to perform the upgrade the system will be unavailable between 8am and 12 noon. The upgrade being performed is a like for like upgrade with little change to the

21 Apr 2015: Further to the update on the CUFS downtime. Please could all departments ensure that all transactions are completed by close of business on 14 April 2014 for any grants that require reporting or audits at the begining of April/end of May.Thank you

21 Apr 2015: Following the Research Policy Committee meeting on 17 January 2013, we can confirm that from 8 February 2013 there will be new deadlines for submitting grant applications to the Research Operations ... High Risk 24+ hrs. Low Risk 24+ hrs. Further

21 Apr 2015: The changes that this release will bring are around existing issues within the system rather than new functionality.

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be unavailable on Monday 4th November between 8am and 8:30am to allow for updating of the submission reports.Updates will be made to the Je-S, Generic and Wellcome reports and will include: Generic and

21 Apr 2015: pFACT, the University’s costing tool has been in use for several years and as such, holds a large number of proposals. To keep the system running smoothly, it is good practice to undertake regular house-keeping within pFACT, and to this end we are

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Changes to pFACT: New pay scale - Clinical Lecturer (StR). ... In consultation with Human Resources Division, the new pay scale of "Clinical Lecturer (StR)" was added to pFACT on Monday 4 April 2011.

21 Apr 2015: X5 will be unavailable on Tuesday 23 July between 0800 and 0900 so that routine mainentance and bug fixes can be undertaken.

21 Apr 2015: The Research Strategy Office has developed a new section on its website dedicated to Restricted Calls.

21 Apr 2015: Further to the update on the CUFS downtime. Please could all departments ensure that all transactions are complete for any grants that require reporting or audits at the begining of April/end of May.Thank you for your cooperation.

21 Apr 2015: May. If you have any queries about the new costing and pricing software, please contact.

21 Apr 2015: Timesheets Recent EC audit findings have found a number of instances where timesheets are either missing, have not been signed off or not been reconciled to CUFS.  It is very important that timesheets have been fully completed and signed off at

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Intellectual Property Policy in practice - new guidance note.

12 Nov 2015: OpenCon Cambridge. New RCUK guidelines on research data sharing policy - feedback welcome.

7 Aug 2015: New features include. A portal for requesting Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) and Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements (CDAs). ... If you have any queries or feedback about the new website, please contact hannah.pawson@admin.cam.ac.uk.

26 Nov 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Christmas/New Year Closing Dates and Application/Expenditure Statement Deadlines. ... Research Operations will close for the Christmas/New Year break on Thursday, 24 December 2015.

21 Apr 2015: Please note the availability of the X5 costing and pricing application during the following periods - • X5 will be vulnerable on Monday 18 August between 8:30am and 9:30am due to the updating of University pay scales• X5 will be unavailable on

21 Apr 2015: The process for including new items of equipment on the Equipment Admin Database is as follows:. ... New Fixed Assets in excess of £10K will be loaded monthly by the Fixed Assets Team in Finance into the database as ‘DRAFT’ records.

2 Apr 2015: Currently applications are accepted between £200,000 and £2 million, however under the new arrangement the lower threshold will rise to £350,000 and the upper threshold will be reduced to

21 Apr 2015: Please note that pFACT will not be available on the morning of Tuesday 1 February (8am to 12noon), in order to update these new University fEC rates.

21 Apr 2015: RCUK PhD stipends have been updated (see http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2014news/Pages/070114.aspx). National Minimum Doctoral Stipend for 2014/15 is £13,863 Research Councils UK Indicative Fee Level for 2014/15 is £3,996 The rates been updated

12 Nov 2015: OpenCon is the conference for students and professionals on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data. Following the main event in Brussels, Belgium we are organising a dedicated Satellite event in Cambridge. OpenCon Cambridge will provide a

21 Apr 2015: Presentations from the Research Grant User Group (RGUG) on 1 November are now available on the Research Office website http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/rgug/default.aspx?id=20111101The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 13 December, 9

10 Dec 2015: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Nature’s ‘Scientific Data’ journal event 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students Guidance for Resarchfish users Nature’s ‘Scientific Data’ journal event Open Data @ Addenbrokes Open Data @ Mill Lane 3.

26 Nov 2015: Christmas/New Year Closing Dates and Application/Expenditure Statement Deadlines. Relocation of the Research Operations Office from Mill Lane to Greenwich House.

21 Apr 2015: The content will include; using the Project Wizard to generate a costing, adding staff and non-staff costs, the differences between copying to a draft or new record, printing reports and

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be unavailable on Monday 3rd March between 08:00am and 12:00 noon to allow MISD to perform an upgrade to the system.Users have been advised separately regarding this downtime but it is important to note that once the

6 Aug 2015: The Research Policy Committee have approved guidelines on authorship designed to encourage good practice in this area. The guidelines are available on the University’s Research Integrity webpages

21 Apr 2015: The ability to create an award costing in X5 at Department Administrator and Principal Investigator level has been removed, as this costing type should only be used at Research Office level. If you need to create an award costing for an award not

21 Apr 2015: The new version of the Marie Curie Financial Guidelines includes an important change which affects all Form Cs that are submitted from July 2011 onwards. ... Under the new revised guidelines, categories D and E (if applicable) should now be reported as a

25 Jun 2015: Once you have contacted the Contracts Manager we will send an introductory email to open the contract negotiation dialogue. The following will also happen ROO will assign an "RG number" for the project, if it does not already have one.

24 Jul 2015: The content will include; using the Project Wizard to generate a costing, adding staff and non-staff costs, the differences between copying to a draft or new record, printing reports and

1 May 2015: The briefing is relevant to all staff involved in research grants, particularly those new to the University or wishing to increase their understanding of University policy and its impact on research