emerging services for research informatio management (rim) through enterprise collaboration

OCLC Member Forum / 24 October 2016

Emerging Services for Research Information Management (RIM) through Enterprise Collaboration

Rebecca Bryant, PhDSenior Program Officer, OCLC Researchorcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881 * @rebeccabryant18

What is Research Information Management (RIM) in the university environment?Broadly defined, RIM is the integrated collection of the scholarly outputs of its researchers by an institution

Other confusing appellations:• CRIS (Current Research Information System)• RNS (Research Networking System)• RPS (Research Profiling System)

• RIMs are not independent researcher profile systems like Research Gate or Academia.edu

• RIM ≠ Research Data Management (RDM)

Primary US RIM use cases

Reuse & interoperability

Faculty activity reporting workflows

Integration with campus IR

Benchmarking & reporting

Public researcher expertise profiles

Research Information

Management (RIM) System

Data sources

Internal data sourcesData Warehouse: HR appointments, courses taught

Campus awards management system: grants & contractsOther campus systems: Patents, honors, media reports,

service & committees, grad student mentoringManual entry: uncaptured publications & artistic works

External data sourcesPublications: Scopus, WOS, PubMed, ArXiv, SSRN

Impact metrics: Scopus, WOS, Altmetrics

Research Information

Management (RIM) System

RIM enterprise landscape

Reuse & interoperability

Faculty activity reporting workflows

Integration with campus IR

Benchmarking & reporting

Public researcher expertise profiles

Research Information

Management (RIM) System

Internal data sources

External data sources

Office of undergraduate research

Disciplines & departmentsGraduate school

Vice president for research

Provost

Institutional Reporting

CIO

Campus center for teaching & learning

Medical center

Tech Transfer Office

LIBRARY

Advancement & corporate relations Data Warehouse

News Bureau

Colleges & depts

Research Data Management

Digital scholarship

User education & training

RIM

Institutional Repository

Campus partners

Use case 1: Public researcher expertise profiles

• Public portal of researchers, units, & research outputs

• Aggregates the research outputs of the campus in a public, searchable form

• Increases institutional & researcher visibility and facilitates expert discovery

experts.umn.edu

Use case 2: Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR)/Annual Reviews• Integrated workflow &

system of record for supporting faculty reviews

• Pre-populated from other campus systems (HR/directory, teaching, grants, patents)

• Campus may implement an enterprise system—or perhaps colleges have their own silo systems

provost.vt.edu/faculty_affairs/efars

Use case 3: Integration with campus institutional repository• Driven by campus OA policies

(US) and need for national OA compliance (UK+)

• Attempts to identify OA eligible works, notify & encourage research self archiving

– Metadata imported from publication indexes, supports tracking of © permissions, versions

– Researchers upload works into RIM appears in IR

scholarworks.duke.edu

Use case 4: Benchmarking & reporting

• Provides citation metrics, Altmetrics re: individual researchers

• In aggregate, institutions may:– Customize reports &

dashboards for department, college, institution

– Analyze research strengths– Identify the journals where

faculty are most commonly publishing

– Support strategic decisions

• US: driven by reputation, rank, & decision support

• Europe, Australia: – National assessment

exercises– Coordination for

institutional benchmarking

– Also driven by reputation, rank & decision support

Use case 5: Reuse & interoperability

“Enter once, reuse often”

Single system of record can be used to support/populate other outputs:• Faculty creation of

biosketches and CVs• Campus directory and faculty

web pages• Academic program reviews,

accreditation• .

Campus Directory

Primary RIM use cases

Reuse & interoperability

Faculty activity reporting workflows

Integration with campus IR

Benchmarking & reporting

Public researcher expertise profiles

Research Information

Management (RIM) System

Case study: Virginia Tech4 of the uses cases:1. Public research

expertise profiles2. Faculty Activity

Reporting workflows3. IR integration4. Reporting

*active conversations about reuse are underway

TakeawaysComplex institution-wide collaborations

with many stakeholders

Multiple use cases are likely to adopted on a single campus

Libraries have valuable expertise to offer to campus

DiscussionRebecca Bryant, PhDSenior Program Officerbryantr@oclc.org