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UKOLN is supported by:

RIM support/UK CERIF landscape overview

JISC RIM: CERIF workshop

Bristol, 27-28 June 2012

Rosemary Russell, Innovation Support Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath

                                                             

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JISC Innovation Support Centreat UKOLN• Includes support for JISC Research

Information Management Programme eg– workshops

• liaison with euroCRIS– supporting documentation for JISC Calls– project syntheses– blog posts– CERIF resources– ‘landscape’ studies

                                                             

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Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study (March 2012)

• CRIS procurement in UK has increased rapidly since 2009– eg first UK Pure system procured in May

2009, now 19 users

• only one in-house development• as a result, CERIF has been widely

adopted: ~31% of UK HEIs • http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/work/rim/

                                                             

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euroCRIS institutional membership: reflects UK CRIS activity…

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However many institutions are not engaging with CERIF

• experience of CERIF mediated by CRIS software used

• most have basic understanding of CERIF• rely on vendor, and expertise in UK user groups• only JISC projects are properly engaging with

CERIF• many are keen to engage more (lack time, REF…)

– concern that lack of understanding will hinder their CRIS use

• CERIF expertise beneficial for CRIS implementation process, enabling better exploitation, challenging vendors…

                                                             

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Will IRs be replaced by CRIS?

• ongoing debate – – can institutional repository functionality be

replaced by CRIS?

• some institutions already taken this route – KCL, Bristol…

• most have integrated IR with CRIS– one exception (because of mapping overhead)

• several maintaining watching brief