Changes to the Funder field in ORO
Researchers are increasingly being expected to record the details of research outputs associated with an externally funded project in external systems (such as the Research Outcomes System and Researchfish).
OU researchers are already expected to record their research outputs in ORO. So, rather than re-key the data into external systems it would be desirable to export this data from ORO. In order to achieve this we are restructuring the existing funder field in ORO to allow data to be exported from ORO into external systems.
The Funder field will now comprise a Funder name, a Project name and Project ID. To aid data entry we have implemented predictive text against a set of know funded projects, but you will also be able to enter a project that is not recorded in this dataset. The field is not mandatory but it is in everyone’s interest to populate this field whenever appropriate as it should save re-keying data at a later date!
Over the next few months we will be migrating data from the existing Funder field to the new fields and working with researchers to ensure this data is correctly recorded in ORO to ensure effective export of data.
Any questions, please mail the ORO mailbox at lib-oro@open.ac.uk
Chris Biggs
ORO Team, Library Services