Current Research Information Systems November 2009 Valerie McCutcheon Operations Manager Research &...

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Current Research Information Systems November 2009 Valerie McCutcheon Operations Manager Research & Enterprise

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Current Research Information Systems

November 2009

Valerie McCutcheon

Operations Manager

Research & Enterprise

Topics

• Overview of Research Systems• Overview of Research lifecycle• The Research System• The impact and output agenda• Zoom in on integration of outputs• What we learned• Questions

Overview of Glasgow Research Systems

Student System

Research Mapping System

& Web Pages

Research System

Institutional Repository

Finance System

HR System

Research System Re-Development Timescale

• 1994 Original System• 2004 in-house decision – no retrospective steps!• 2005 Decide to include costing within Research System• May 2006 First Version LIVE• June 2007 Costing module LIVE• March 2008 Project Closed

Research System

Research System

Work In Progress

• Improved automation of award calculations

• Electronic document management and workflow

• Link to repository (Outputs and Impacts)

• Improved web pages

• CPD

• Sharing what we have learned and learning from others

R&E Role in Impact and Output Agenda

• Assist with impact plans• Identify users of our research and best

channels to get it to them• Have better ways of articulating the

benefits and getting the beneficiaries to confirm this

• Capture the benefits

Impact and Output

Research System

REF System/ Impact

LicencesCollaborations

ConferencesConsultations

IP ManagerInstitutional Repository

Enrich

Enlighten and Research System

Integration - Research Information

Lifecycle

• Policy mandatory full text deposit September 2008 • Join up data and services• Open access • Output and Impact • Marketing• http://www.gla.ac.uk/enrich/

Some Enrich Deliverables

• 30,000 records in the Institutional Repository service

• Clear policies and workflows for collecting data

• Better search tools – Alternative sources– Interfiled catalogue and repository hits

• Staff profiles • Better link between Research and Output• Public domain statistics (irStats.com)

Institutional Repository’s Growth

End of the DAEDALUS Project (Jul 05)

Publications Policy (Jun 08)

Source: ROARmap

Publications Policy

• Bibliographic details

•Full text peer reviewed articles and published conference papers (subject to copyright permissions)

•Citing the University Address

+ 20k RAE records

Linking Outputs to Awards

Issues

• Gold Plating• Resource• Technology• Joint Electronic System• Academic access• Data quality• Unknowns

Good Points

• Requirements gathering – prioritised list of essential v desirable.

• Business Case revisited• User Group power• Agile development process • Realistic allocation of time to maintenance of pre-

existing systems, bug fixing, and user support.• Relationships• Opportunities for repositories

Want to know More?

• www.gla.ac.uk/enrich• Valerie McCutcheon, Operations Manager, Research

and Enterprise, [email protected]• William Nixon, Digital Library Development Manager,

[email protected]• http://twitter.com/enlightenpapers• http://enlightenrepository.wordpress.com/ • http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/aboutrcuk/efficiency/oocp/default

.htm• http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Achievementsimpact/Outputsoutc

omes/e-Val/index.htm