European Publication Information Service - a Pilot Project OKM:n bibliometriikkaseminaari 8.12.2017

On the Agenda, but still unsolved… Science policy and research evaluation at all levels of the European Research Area need support from reliable, comparable, and comprehensive information on research activity, productivity and quality. Commercial databases, Web of Science or Scopus, do not provide complete coverage of research output in any field, and in SSH fields they suffer from severe lack of coverage of publications in books and languages other than English.

Two of the recommendations: On the agenda, but still unsolved... A report in 2010 to European Science Foundation and the British, Dutch, French, and German research councils Two of the recommendations: Negotiate expansions and/or a new database with the suppliers of Web of Science and/or Scopus Integrate national and institutional documentation systems

On the Agenda, but still unsolved… A report in 2014 to European Parliamentary Research Service The key recommendation: The development of a European integrated research information system having features of a distributed infrastructure, inter-connecting the existing national research information systems, facilitated by CERIF – the European standards for research information systems (www.eurocris.org).

On the Agenda, but still unsolved… At the Strategic Membership Meeting of euroCRIS in November 2016, various international organisations agreed to explore the possibilities to cooperate in order to come to/create a European Research Information Infrastructure: EARMA (European Research Managers), Science Europe (funders), OpenAIRE, German Research Academies, JISC, ORCiD and euroCRIS...

ENRESSH network The “European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities” is a COST Action 2016-2020 (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) ENRESSH Working Group 3: Databases and uses of data for understanding SSH research The main objective: “To reflect upon the standardisation and the interoperability of current research information systems (CRIS) dedicated to research outcomes from the social sciences and humanities (SSH)” One of the tasks is to “Design a roadmap for a European bibliometric database” Current activities of WG3, e.g. Survey of national databases (survey) Non-Bibliometric Analysis of Book Evaluation A pilot study working towards an integrated European database of SSH research output

Pilot project A pilot project in collaboration of CSC and ENRESSH on European VIRTA was launched in March 2017 The target is to explore the use of Finnish VIRTA Publication Information Service concept across different countries in order to create a European database The pilot project also produces a dataset for certain bibliometric analyses Pilot universities Norway: University of Oslo Flanders: University of Antwerpen Spain: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Finland: University of Helsinki, University of Jyväskylä, Tampere University of Technology Participating countries have reported their complete publication metadata from the years 2014-15 to VIRTA

Principles for the European Research Infomation Service Data transfer from national or local CRISes in a standardized format – annually or more frequently All information freely available in a public portal Via open APIs, the information usable for various purposes National and institutional CRISes or other publication databases XML files European Research Information Service API Using services (e.g. funders) Public portal Other use, e.g. CVs Publication input service (for non-CRIS organizations)

VIRTA pilot: number of publications Note: Finland and Oslo cover all fields, Antwerpen and Madrid only SSH

Issues of data comparability Publications to be included Publication types to be included Publication type mapping Disciplines Detailed data format Required and optional fields and local additions in data model

VIRTA pilot: Publications by Finnish Publication Forum levels

Bibliometric analysis Next steps The European VIRTA database will be held open to new participants: Other countries can still join! Bibliometric analysis The data collected in the pilot has its highest quality and consistency in terms of the bibliographic data Current focus on journal analysis Creation of a more general data model Standardization of classifications

Hanna-Mari Puuska Development Manager hanna-mari.puuska@csc.fi