How Jisc supports reporting, communicating and measuring research in the UK
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8 th June 2016 CRIS2016 Conference How Jisc supports reporting, communicating and measuring research in the UK
Transcript of How Jisc supports reporting, communicating and measuring research in the UK
8th June 2016
CRIS2016 Conference
How Jisc supports reporting, communicating and measuring research in the UK
MissionTo enable people in higher education,
further education and skills in the UK to
perform at the forefront of
international practice by exploiting fully
the possibilities of modern digital
empowerment, content and
connectivity
Vision
To make the UK the most digitally advanced education and researchnation in the world
The UK Research Landscape» Many research performing institutions (HEIs)
» Many different systems employed by funders and publishers
» No shared national awarding or reporting infrastructure
» Partial implementation of some key standards in some systems
» Changing environment (mandates, funding sources, international/ interdisciplinary focus)
Some existing workflows in the UK RIM landscape
UK Research Councils
Je-SInternal Systems
GtR
ResearchFish
CRIS
Finance/HR/
Student
Third Parties
Bibliographic Databases
Identifiers
University
Repository
Hefce/Ref/HecBIS
Core
Other funders
Konfer
Equipment.data
HESA
Researcher
Academia.net
Mendeley
Academia.edu
Research gate
› Standards and Identifiers in Research• ORCID
• OrgID
› Reporting Research• OSIP
• RIOXX
› Open Access to Research Outputs• Sherpa Services
• Publications Router
• Jisc Monitor
• Discovering and accessing articles
• Research data metadata and discovery
› ‘Measuring’ Research and its Impact• Usage and citation statistics of research articles and data
Relevant Topics
Main Areas for Standardisation
Research Data Management
Scholarly Communications
Research Information
Management
› CERIF
› ORCID
› DOIs
› CASRAI pilots• Data Management Plans,
• Open Access reporting
• Organisational Identifiers
Jisc CASRAI-UK Pilot: Organisational Identifiers
› Landscape study identified 4 candidates for UK OrgID• UK PRN• Digital Science• ISNI• Ringgold
› ISNI is a bridging ID which can link IDs and records in different systems
› Use ISNI for provision and maintenance of the orgID
› Use UK registration agencies to provide an interface with ISNI
OrgIDs – Next steps
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• A pilot clean-up of a closed set of UK institution data
• Investigation of feasibility of UK registration agencies
• Look at International use cases, such as where the ISNI API is already in use.
• Work towards a sustainable and international approach: working with THOR, CrossRef and DataCite.
Research Reporting: Overview of Systems Interoperability Project (OSIP)
› Joint project between Jisc and UK research councils (RCUK) - with wider sector input
› RCUK has 3 main systems, with little or no interoperability with University systems
› Project led to the commitment of RCUK to the introduction of both ORCID and OrgIDs throughout their systems
› RCUK joined the ORCID consortium in December 2015
www.jisc.ac.uk/content/open-access/our-role
Open Access to Research Outputs
Automatic Notification of Acceptance (Publications Router)
Publications Router
https://pubrouter.jisc.ac.uk/
Managing and Analysing OA information (Jisc Monitor)
Discovering and accessing an OA article (OpenDOAR & CORE)
Interoperability in the RDM Architecture
Credit for Architecture concepts: John Lewis (Sheffield) & Stuart Lewis (Edinburgh) http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1202230
Assessing usage (impact) of research outputs
› Article Downloads – IRUS-UK
› Article Citations via text mining – Open Citation Experiment
› Usage statistics and citation of Research Data
› Data download stats at file level
› How to cite data?
Conclusions
› Development of standardised terms, definitions and identifiers to underpin the research information management systems network
› Development of open protocols to allow machine-readable access to (and exchange of) information
› Development of open and reliable measures of research activity, leading to reliable reporting, assessment and analysis of research quality
Find out more…
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Dr Tamsin BurlandSubject specialist (research)[email protected]
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