1. Overview of the CRIS scene Harrie Lalieu Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

2. CRIS 2004 Workshop – CRIS: User needs and practices - Identifying users - Roles for CRIS - Repurposing information - Business models for CRIS Courtesy Dr. Neil Jacobs, University of Bristol

3. Users - Research managers - Researchers - Practitioners - Students - Media - Intermediaries

4. Roles for CRIS -“Expert directories”  patents, publications - Elements of sponsor’s mission - Niches - Guide to research activities, intermediary role - Repurposing information

5. Business model for CRIS -Very few CRIS have clearly defined mission - Define functional model: assessment of benefits - Public sector CRIS value: opportunity cost, symbolic value, institutional benefits - Guidance: Code of Best Practice

6. Typology/taxonomy for CRIS -What do they do and who they do it for - Benchmarking  guidance of business models for the Code of Best Practice

7. Search DRIS Print View rint View World by map

10. Conclusions - With CRISs (combinations of) projects/programmes, organisations, expertise and publications are dominant; CRIS with additional data on funding and, particularly, patents and equipment, are less common. Thirty CRISs provide only information on projects/programmes, 7 offer a combination of projects, organisations and expertise and 11 offer more - The most frequent combinations are national/disciplinary/projects (12), national/all sciences /organisations (5), and worldwide/disciplinary/ projects (4); but in general, international and worldwide CRISs are discipline oriented, whereas most national databases cover all sciences