Both keyword and more advanced search options are available, as is a login facility. For more recent projects, full text research findings reports are also available. Both keyword and more advanced search options are available, and you can target your search on the latest research, on particular researchers, or on ESRC Research Centres and Programmes. There is also a login facility, so that you can store your searches and particular records that are of interest to you. The service gives research users the ability to locate and exploit research funded by the ESRC, and has a large and increasing user base, drawn not only from Higher Education, but increasingly from government, voluntary agencies, business and the media.
Regard offers an excellent opportunity for researchers to publicise their work.
As a new development, the texts of End of Award Reports on awards evaluated since mid-2000 are now also made available. Regard is managed by a team at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, a national centre of excellence in the development of technology-based methods in teaching, learning and research, whose technical and bibliographical expertise underpins the system.