Bill Worthington
Research and Scholarly Communications Manager, Library and Computing Services, University of Hertfordshire
Bill has been Research and Scholarly Communications (RSC) Team Manager, Library and Computing Services, University of Hertfordshire, since forming the team in 2016.
The RSC team manages the University’s research systems; curates research information; advocates good practice including Open Access; and delivers practical interventions for researchers in order to get the most from their published work. Bill leads the RSC team and works with other providers in the university to deliver a co-ordinated service catalogue of research support. Bill had the responsibility for assuring data quality and compliance for research outputs for both REF2014 and REF2021.
Bill was formerly Group Leader in the Enterprise Application Consultants team, and has a wide experience of information systems, web technologies, coding, and data processing. He is only lately, almost a librarian.
Bill uses Scopus and SciVal to deliver insight and advocacy with regard to publication practice, mostly at research group level.