The document University Grants Committee Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 1999 Guidance Notes, dated 22 January 1999, lays down the basic philosophy and principles of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), as well as guidance to institutions and to those who had to submit research output items for assessment. These supplementary guidelines are addressed to Panel Members, who are charged with evaluating the submissions.

Table of Contents		Paragraph
	Purpose	1
	Membership	2
	Eligibility	3
	Categories of Scholarship	4
	Material for Assessment	5
	Assignment of Cases to Panel Members for Assessment	6 - 9
	Basis of Evaluation	10 - 11
	Split between Cost Centres	12
	Co-authorship	13
	Threshold Standard	14 - 19
	Grading of Items	20 - 21
	Individual Scores	22 - 24
	Anonymity	25
	Scoring Form	26
	Calibration of Standards	27 - 28
	External advice	29
	Workshop and Preliminary Meetings	30
	Consideration of RAE Submissions	31
	Publication of Panel Guidelines	32

Appendices
	Appendix A	Scholarship as defined by the Carnegie Foundation
	Appendix B	RAE Panels in RAE 1999
	Appendix C	Reference Guidelines on Handling Submissions from Staff Members with Split Cost Centres
	Appendix D	Guidelines on Co-authored Submissions
	Appendix E	Sample Scoring Form