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Introduction

A CRIS (Current Research Information Systems), aka as RIMS (Research Information Management System), is a system to collect information about the entities that populate the research domain and provide researchers, managers and administrators, funders and decision makers, with a solid knowledge of the research activities, their outputs and results to inform institutional strategies.

DSpace-CRIS consists of a data model describing objects of interest to the Reseach ecosystem and a set of tools to manage the data. While standard DSpace deals with publications and data setsdatasets, DSpace-CRIS involves the other CRIS entities that are part of the research domain: Researchers, Projects, Organization Units and Second Level Dynamic Objects (single entities specialized by a profile, such as Journals, Prizes, Events etc: each profile can define its own set of properties and nested objects). A CRIS (Current Research Information Systems), aka as RIMS (Research Information Management System), is a system to collect information about the entities that populate the research domain and provide researchers, managers and administrators, funders and decision makers, with a solid knowledge of the research activities, their outputs and results to inform institutional strategies.

Differently from other (commercial) CRIS, DSpace-CRIS also includes the institutional repository and provides high visibility on the web to all the collected information and objects as defined by policies. 


MAIN FEATURES

  • Management of CRIS entities

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    • Pre-configured entities

    • Customisation of entities

    • Links between one or more entities


  • Global search and indexing
    • Global search across the whole site

    • Highlighting of searched terms

    • Faceted Search

    • Contextualized dynamic components

  • Dedicated administrative UI for data model definition of 1st level CRIS entities: researchers, orgunits/groups, projects, using the JDynA framework
  • Ability to define new object types via UI to manage 2nd level CRIS entities, such as: prizes, awards, equipment, laboratories shared and linked to one or more 1st or 2nd level CRIS entities
  • Detail page for any entity organized in Tabs and Boxes themed with JQuery UI
    • Faceted Search using the DSpace Discovery 3.0 configuration

    • Customizable Browse indexes as for DSpace items
  • Network visualization and analysis

Integration of DSpace-CRIS entities with publications (DSpace Item)

  • CRIS entities as authority for Item metadata
  • List of referencing DSpace Items in the detail page of the CRIS entities
  • Ability to hide publications (or any other related entity: projects, etc.) in the researcher profile
  • List of selected publications (or any other related entity: projects, etc.)
  • Claim/disclaim (link/unlink) previously entered publication items, to a researcher profile

Usage Statistics

    • Detail page for any entity organized in Tabs and Boxes


  • Assessment, reporting and analytics
    • Statistics available at all levels of hierarchy, including the whole repository
  • CRIS entity detail page visit
  • Global & Top related CERIF Entity views & downloads referencing the CRIS entity (projects for researchers, researchers for OrgUnits, etc.)
    • Global & Top item views & downloads
    referencing the CRIS entity
  • email and RSS alerts

Article level metrics

  • PubMed

    • Statistics about each single entity
      • Cited-by count in the item page
  • Number of pubmed articles for researcher
  • Total citations in pubmed for researcher (only items in local DSpace database will be counted)

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      • Items’ views and downloads by regions
    • Aggregated statistics of linked items
    • Automatic periodical alerts


  • Profile management and promotion

    • Researcher CV

      • Possibility to manually show/hide selected items
      • Claim/disclaim previously entered items

    • Duplication alert

    • Collaboration network


  • Managing funding opportunities 
    • Search by funder
    • Linking funders to projects
    • Automatic screening of new opportunities

    • Notification of new opportunities


  • Interoperability with external systems and databases
    • Scripts are provided to query periodically bibliographic databases such as: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science
    • Deduplications can be used to merge found records in multiple sources or previously entered.
    • SOAP WebServices for READ-ONLY access to CRIS information
    • Export CRIS entities in CERIF XML 1.6
    • (coming soon - see the RoadMap)
    • Import CRIS entities from CERIF 1.6
    • XML (coming soon - see the RoadMap)
    • XML 
    • CERIF compliance test / REST API
    • (coming soon - see the RoadMap)

New features in DSpace-CRIS 5

    • Integrated with bibliometric database
    • ORCiD integration for both public and member APIs


  • Integration with Add-ons 
    • CKAN Integration - Research Data Management
      • Explore dataset

      • Display data

      • Configure variables

  • ORCID integration
  • Ability to claim profiles
    • Global search with Text Highlighting