Research Register for Social Care - adding and editing content

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When adding to the Research Register, or editing existing items, data is added or edited using a form that contains the fields listed below.

Mandatory? - fields that are mandatory must be completed before the 'Ready to submit' box can be checked. This option will be greyed-out until all mandatory fields are completed. Checking the 'Ready to submit' box and saving your record will submit it for inclusion on the Research Register and Social Care Online.

Link? - text in fields that are links can be clicked on to run a search within the Research Register. For example, clicking on the text 'Social Care Institute for Excellence' in the ' Lead organisation' field will return all records where the Social Care Institute for Excellence is the Lead organisation. Similarly, clicking on a topic term term will return all records containing that term.

Field name	Mandatory?	Link?	Comments
Local ID	No	No	This is your own, optional, reference number and will not be displayed or used by the Research Register. This field should be used if you wish to use the Bulk Upload facility to update or delete records.
Lead organisation	n/a	Yes	This field is populated automatically, using the Organisation name in your user profile.
Department/Unit	n/a	Yes	This field is populated automatically, using the Department/Unit name in your user profile.
Contact	n/a	No	This field is populated automatically, using the email address in your user profile. Your email address will not be displayed.
Title	Yes	No
Abstract	Yes	No	You can enter a maximum of 3900 characters in this field. You can also format the text, using the buttons that appear below the box when you click on it. These allow you to use bold or italic text, change text colour or background, insert links, indent text and use bulleted or numbered lists.
Aims and Objectives	Yes	No	You can enter a maximum of 3900 characters in this field. You can also format the text, using the buttons that appear below the box when you click on it. These allow you to use bold or italic text, change text colour or background, insert links, indent text and use bulleted or numbered lists.
Lead researcher	Yes	Yes
Design	Yes	No	Select one option form the drop-down menu.
Methods	Yes	No	Select one option form the drop-down menu.
Lead research institution	Yes	Yes
Other research institutions/teams involved, where applicable	No	No	You can add additional research institutions/teams by clicking on the 'Add button' to create a new field. Clicking on the 'Delete button' will delete additional fields from the bottom up.
Lead local authority (if not authority entering data)	No	Yes
Other local authorities/research providers involved, where applicable	No	Yes	You can add additional local authorities/research providers by clicking on the 'Add button' to create a new field. Clicking on the 'Delete button' will delete additional fields from the bottom up.
Main funding body (sponsoring body)	Yes	Yes
Other finding bodies, where applicable	No	Yes	You can add additional funding bodies by clicking on the 'Add button' to create a new field. Clicking on the 'Delete button' will delete additional fields from the bottom up.
Research status	Yes	No	Select either ongoing or completed from drop-down menu.
Start date	Yes	No	Select date using drop-down menu.
Estimated end date	Yes	No	Select date using drop-down menu.
Actual end date	No	No	Select date using drop-down menu.
Date of RGF approval, where applicable	See note	No	Select date using drop-down menu. It is mandatory to select either Date of RGF approval or Date of REC approval, or both.
Date of REC approval, where applicable	See note	No	Select date using drop-down menu. It is mandatory to select either Date of RGF approval or Date of REC approval, or both.
User involvement	Yes	No	Select using tick boxes. Select either 'None' or 'Throughout', or some or all of the 'Some - ...' options.
Student research?	Yes	No	Select 'No', 'Yes - undergraduate' or 'Yes - postgraduate' from the drop down menu.
Main findings	No	No	You can enter a maximum of 3900 characters in this field. You can also format the text, using the buttons that appear below the box when you click on it. These allow you to use bold or italic text, change text colour or background, insert links, indent text and use bulleted or numbered lists.
Budget	No	No
Link to research outputs (link text)	No	See note	This field should contain the text that will be displayed as a link, for example: Link to Research Register information on SCIE website,
Link to research outputs (link url)	No	See note	This field should contain the full web address or url of the page you want to link to, for example: http://www.scie.org.uk/knowledgemanagement/rrsc.asp
Ready to submit?	No	No	This box can only be checked once all mandatory field have been completed. Checking this box and saving your record means that you record will be submitted for inclusion in the Research Register and Social Care Online.
Export to?	No	No
Topics	No	Yes	You can add topics from the Social Care Online taxonomy by clicking on the ‘Add' button. This will open the taxonomy and allow you to browse through adding as many terms as are appropriate. You can also type topics in directly, separated by a semi-colon (;). Topics will only be accepted if they are in the taxonomy – which you can view or download from Social Care Online.