Get an overview of all CASRAI standards projects from the past year delivered by the project leads. Includes Project CRediT, Peer Review Citations, Snowball Metrics, Data Management Plans, Open Access Reporting and Organizational ID standards.

1. Snowball Metrics and CASRAI project
Global Standards for Institutional Benchmarking
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Peter Darroch, Elsevier
Senior Product Manager Research Metrics
Co-Chair, CASRAI-Snowball
Anna Clements, University of St Andrews, UK
Board member, euroCRIS
Chair , CASRAI-UK Data Management Plans
Co-Chair, CASRAI-Snowball
Member, ORCiD Business Steering Group

2. Snowball Metrics addresses
university-driven benchmarking
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Snowball Metrics UK Project Partners
Universities need standard metrics to benchmark themselves
to know their position relative to peers, so they can
strategically align resources to their strengths and weaknesses

3. Snowball Metrics approach
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Vision: Snowball Metrics enable benchmarking by driving
quality and efficiency across higher education’s research and
enterprise activities, regardless of system and supplier
• Bottom-up initiative: universities define and endorse metrics to
generate a strategic dashboard. The community is their guardian
• Draw on all data: university, commercial and public
• Ensure that the metrics are system- and tool-agnostic
• Build on existing definitions and standards where possible and
sensible

4. The Snowball Metrics Landscape
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5. Denominators
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6. CASRAI Snowball Working Group
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AIMS :
• Extend community participation
• Codify metrics in CASRAI dictionary as an
international standard

7. CASRAI Snowball Working Group
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AIMS :
• Extend community participation
• Commercial
• Thomson Reuters
• Research Organisations
• US & Canada & UK
• Funders
• Wellcome Trust & MRC
• Standards / existing data collections
• euroCRIS
• HESA
• STAR Metrics

8. CASRAI Snowball Working Group
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AIMS :
• Codify metrics in CASRAI dictionary as an
international exchange standard
• Terms, objects and fields
• Show “what’s under the hood” => adds value
• Wider review circle => Snowball SG
Deliverables
• Standard exchange agreement per Metric [24]
• Update/extension of CASRAI dictionary
• Agreed streamlined process for new Metrics

9. Peter Darroch
Elsevier, Senior Product Manager, Research Metrics
p.darroch@elsevier.com
Anna Clements
University of St Andrews, UK
akc@st-andrews.ac.uk
Twitter: @annakclements
Snowball Metrics http://www.snowballmetrics.com/