The ARC has released the draft ERA 2018 Submission Guidelines

The ARC has now released the draft ERA 2018 submission guidelines for consultation. You can find a copy at their website here.

There are not really too many changes to the submission which should please universities - especially as they are gearing up for the Impact and Engagement assessment at the same time. Guidelines for the impact and engagement assessment are still pending at this stage.

A couple of interesting additions include:

• Reporting of ORCID (optional)
• Reporting of DOI (optional)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research section - although it would be nice to have a clear definition of Aboriginal research to work with. 

Also interesting to see the addition of this to the the guidelines:

Institutions agree to allow the ARC to publish any submitted data from ERA 2018. In addition, institutions must agree to publish their submission, with the exception of their staff data, on 5 February 2019.

It will be good to get some clarity on what form this would take.