DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO Data Archiving and Networked Services Measurement of research impact in OpenAIRE 2020: via text mining or the CRISs? Elly Dijk Policy Advisor DANS Project leader OpenAIRE2020 at DANS EuroCRIS membership meeting AMUE, Paris, 12 May 2015

Outline What is DANS? Portal NARCIS EU initiative OpenAIRE2020 Task 8.3: Research Impact Services Text mining open access content Preferred solution?

Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute of Dutch Academy and Research F unding O rganisation (KNAW & NWO) since 2005 First predecessor dates back to 1964 (Steinmetz Foundation), Historical Data Archive 1989 Mission: promote and provide permanent access to digital research information DataverseNL EASY NARCIS

Content NARCIS = National aggregator + making Dutch research visible CRIS information: research projects, researchers, scholarly institutes (including 8,400 projects financed by the National Research Funder NWO) (Open access) publications from the repositories of Dutch universities, Netherlands Academy, NWO, and a number of research institutes; Research data from data archives, including EASY

OpenAIRE2020 Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe: Promotes Open Science Funded by Horizon2020 to develop and maintain the infrastructure to support OA policy of the EU Network of over 500 repositories and open access journals Access to 11 million open access publications and 7,000 data sets, 58,000 organizations, and 30,000 projects of two research funders

OpenAIRE2020 ambition From a Repository Network to a European wide Research Information System Enhance interoperability of all research-cycle related resources: link content together (following a subset of CERIF) through its main entities: publications, research data, projects, people, organizations Support H2020 OA mandates – 100% OA on scientific publications – Research Data Pilot Implement Gold OA pilot Establish OpenAIRE legal entity

Task 8.3 Research Impact Services Athena Research and Innovation Center (ARC - task leader), CNR (Italy) and DANS Realization of services for measurement of research impact w.r.t. a research initiative Such services will identify relationships between publications/datasets and a research initiative by text mining Goal: visualizing statistics and measuring research impact over time Use-case: pilots with selected National funding agencies e.g. Dutch NWO

Text mining To find NWO funding informations in the publications that are already in OpenAIRE This is done with text mining algorithms The publications that are in OpenAIRE: from ArXiv, PMC Europe open set and the OpenAIRE compliant institutional repositories Example: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia is the major Portuguese Science Funder

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Information about the projects PROJECT IDENTIFIER (MANDATORY) PROJECT TITLE or ACRONYM (MANDATORY) FUNDER NAME (MANDATORY) - NWO START DATE (MANDATORY) END DATE (MANDATORY) FUNDING STREAM(S) (OPTIONAL) – funding categories for more detailed statistics ORGANIZATION(S) INVOLVED (OPTIONAL)

First text mining DANS sent 8,451 research projects financed by NWO from NARCIS to ARC in Athens ARC did the text mining in ArXiv and PMC Europe publications Later ARC will start text mining the Dutch repositories, starting with the University of Amsterdam

Results 353 matches in EuropePMC (in 327 unique publications - i.e. some publications had more than one NWO project matches) 323 matches in ArXiv.org (in 286 unique publications) Project identifier – URL of the publication in Europe PMC or ArXiv But: In EuropePMC there are 900+ extra links to NWO that where not in the NARCIS list and appear to be valid matches What to do next?

Second text mining Partly NWO database identifiers instead of “dossier numbers” known by the researchers From NWO list with 5,000 research projects since 2006: database identifiers and NWO dossier numbers We matched this list with our list of 8,451 projects and sent it again for text mining to ARC Outcome so far: only about 100 extra publications found in PMC and 14 extra publications in ArXiv!

What to do next? Try to find out what kind of identifiers there are in 900+ extra links in PMC Repeat the text mining with other identifiers? Text mining the Dutch repositories And for the future: Use the CRISs!

Advantages of this pilot text mining Connection between research projects of funders and open access publications becomes clear Possible: Measurement of research impact/to make statistics/graphics Improve NARCIS by adding NWO dossier numbers and the URLs of the publications in the project descriptions NWO might improve the information about using the “dossier number” by the researcher

Disadvantages of text mining You’ve to do it again and again and again What are the right identifiers? Where can you find the publications? DANS and NWO want: To contribute to a strengthening of the national research infrastructure To make it easier for the researcher to fill in his research information only once

Future solution: Use the CRISs NWO demands that the “dossier number” will be stored in the CRIS : projects and publications Describe exchange format – using CERIF Deliver all CRIS information to NARCIS Make a technical connection in NARCIS Make it easier for the researchers to give an overview of their ‘NWO’ publications Deliver the information to OpenAIRE2020, or… When it's done: the information can be used for measuring research impact in OpenAIRE

Easy to realize? No! Necessary: Communication with NWO and the universities Appointments about national exchange formats Problem or right moment: most universities are busy to change from Metis to Converis or Pure But in the end: everyone will benefit: o DANS/NARCIS + NWO + universities/researchers + international community

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