The Research Facilities database on the Research Portal home page contains information on major items of equipment that may be of interest to researchers and those in the department in which the facility is housed.
Availability and usage of this equipment:
In many cases facilities are available for use by researchers in other departments and in general there will be charges for such use.
In a few cases facilities will be available for use by researches who are not affiliated with UCT.
Many facilities will require a researcher to be trained in the usage of the equipment before it is made available to them.
In some cases the equipment may only be operated by staff of that facility on behalf of an external researcher.
The main purpose of this Research Facilities database is to promote the use and awareness of UCT research assets (i.e. equipment/facilities) amongst researchers at UCT.
Below is a list of procedures for the Research Facilities database:
Task |
Overview and steps/link to procedure (if applicable) |
Queries about equipment listed |
Note: Some of the information in the database may not be current and we are in the process of updating it. |
Updating or adding new equipment |
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Finding facilities/equipment |
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Facilities categories: Source |
The equipment categories hierarchy (i.e. taxonomy) used in the Research Facilities database is based on the equipment inventory taxonomy developed by the University of Leeds “to classify research equipment by its primary function in a way that is intuitive to the end user within a research environment”. For more information on the University of Leeds taxonomy, see: Equipment Classification. |
Facilities categories: Adding to the taxonomy |
For further information on using or contributing to the equipment categories hierarchy, please contact the Content Architecture team. |