3. Key challenges
1. Integrated management of research information
2. Integrated and visible research output
3. Academic self archiving/deposit
4. Institutional commitment to IR initiatives
4. Key challenges
1. Integrated management of research information
2. Academic self archiving/deposit
3. Integrated and visible research output
4. Institutional commitment to IR initiatives
6. Research activity information
Data
 Persons – biographical information and profiles
 Publications – including full-text
 Projects – funding, costing, status
Silo information systems on campus
 Student
 Researchers
 Academics
 Finance administration
 Research Office
7. CRIS
Current Research Information Systems (CRIS)
A Current Research Information System,
commonly known as "CRIS", is any information
tool dedicated to provide access to and
disseminate research information
(www.eurocris.org)
10. Requirements
Holistic view of research information
Granularity of information
 Drill down to level of individuals
Integrated information management – input once
User friendly interface
11. Measure University research outputs
Research output statistics
Completed research by year/faculty/discipline
PhDs completed
Journal articles published
Books published
Article citation numbers
Innovation activities
 Commercialisation
12. Key challenges
1. Integrated management of research information
2. Integrated and visible research output
3. Academic self archiving/deposit
4. Institutional commitment to IR initiatives
13. Research output made visible
Research output from academic staff
 Academic research papers
 Research data sets
 Journal articles
 Conference papers
 Research project reports
 Policy briefs
Research output from students
 Theses and dissertations
 Research data sets
14. Websites and webpages
UB web site
Departmental web page/ website
Individual academic web page /website
 All research activities
 All research output
 Contact information
Library website
UBRISA website
16. Institutional repository
“A university-based institutional repository is a set of services
that a university offers to the members of its community
for the management and dissemination of digital materials
created by the institution and its community members.
It is most essentially an organisational commitment to the
stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term
preservation where appropriate, as well as organisation
and access or distribution.”
Clifford A. Lynch. Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for
Scholarship in the Digital Age ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7.
17. Important elements of IRs
Institutionally defined
Scholarly and research purposes
Cumulative and perpetual
Open and interoperable
18. Strategic importance of IRs
Facilitate access to University wide research
Disseminate and publicise public funded research
Facilitate new forms of scholarly communication
Measure of research output
e-Research
19. Many levels of repositories
Institutional repository
 Research output from an individual institutions
National repository
 Research output from several individual institutions
International repository
 Research output from several national repositories
21. Push and pull
Information push
 Dissemination – websites, social media tools
 Social media for scholarly purposes
Information pull
 OpenDoar
23. UB published journals
Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Articles linked via metadata to the IR
Open access to the full text
24. Key challenges
1. Integrated management of research information
2. Integrated and visible research output
3. Academic self archiving/deposit
4. Institutional commitment to IR initiatives
26. Key challenges
1. Integrated management of research information
2. Integrated and visible research output
3. Academic self archiving/deposit
4. Institutional commitment to IR initiatives
27. Resources
Human resources
 New skills
 New posts
• Programmer
• Systems administrator
• Metadata librarian
• Scholarly Communications Librarian
• Academic Research Librarian
Financial resources
 Upgraded IT infrastructure
 Conference attendance