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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 datasets, DSpace-CRIS involves the other 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).

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 
  • 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

Management of CRIS entities

• Dedicated administrative UI for data model definition of 1st level CRIS entities: people, orgunits, project, using the JDynA framework
• Ability to define new object types via UI to manage 2nd level CRIS entities: prize, equipment, laboratory shared and linked to one or more 1st or 2nd level CRIS entities
• Detail page for any entity organized in Tab and Box 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
• Make a list of selected publications (or any other related entity: projects, etc.)
• Claim/disclaim (link/unlink) previously DSpace 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.)
PubMed
• • Global & Top item views & downloads
  referencing the CRIS entity
• email and RSS alerts

Article level metrics

• • 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)

Interoperability

• • • 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!!! (documentation... coming soon)

• • 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