1. CRIS Cross: the repository in the research information system
Open Access
Niamh Brennan
Trinity College Dublin
Repository Fringe
August 1st 2008
Edinburgh

3. TCD Strategic Plan
“A coherent information policy for College to address the needs of management, the Library, e-learning, electronic publications and records management will be developed with a view to having an integrated view of information systems across the whole of College.

4. A research database will be part of an integrated management system to help monitor our progress in research and scholarship and to help manage their support.”
-TCD Strategic Plan, Chapter 5: Strategy to Realise our Vision of Trinity, Action 18, p26

5. Average cumulative citations to cumulative papers 1981-2007

7. CURRENT RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM - CV-driven - Fully integrated with complementary systems - initial population from Human Resources records - updated & enhanced ‘live’ by researcher, - mediated input on-demand (Library-based service)

8. Research Profile on College Staff Directory

9. Personal URL/Research Webpage

10. Live feed on to School webpages

14. Reports

17. Reporting for Evaluation

18. New: Research Presentation/Dissemination

22. - Fully integrated with Research Support System
- Added value to records in both systems

23. Research publications
Etheses
Epublishing/Grey Literature
Images

24. Bibliographic records from ISI: - Integrated with ISI institutional Citation Report for TCD - By agreement with ISI - Specifically requested by researchers

25. APIs
WoS
SCOPUS
PubMed

26. Handling Bibliographic Data: EndNote

29. Repository with Added Value
Link to Researcher’s Profile
Link to live ISI Citation Record

30. Research Support System with Fulltext Links

31. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

35. Peoplefinder / Web / College Systems Repository WEB Expertise Ireland
E-publishing,
Digitisation
Projects, etc
Research
Support
System
Repository
WEB
Expertise
Ireland

36. DMZ DMZ TCD Institutional Repository - in an Integrated Environment
Library
Research Support System
Bibliographic metadata
(inc. ISI)
Research Expertise
Project tracking
Web Services
Human Resources
Institutional Repository
Physical
Resources
FTP server
DMZ
DMZ
DMZ= Demilitarised Zone (standard networking term)
Financials
Web server
External Bodies
The web /
Search engines etc.
OAI harvesters
External Bodies
Thesis Print-Shop
External Bodies
expertiseireland.com
Portal Reviewers
Student Administration

37. Inclusion in Repository means…
Enhanced access
Better search functionality
Alerts
Usage Statistics
Inclusion with other research material +
Different processes / workflows
New environment

38. Student:
Adds metadata
Uploads file/s
Applies restriction (if any)
Agrees to Licence
Supervisor:
Checks -
Correct file
Restriction/Stay
Keywords
Citations/Sponsors
Reject
Library:
Checks metadata
Assigns LCSH
Commits to archive
[Record exported to GEAC]
Approve
Reject
Graduate Studies Office/Dean:
1. Approves/disapproves application for stay
Approve
Approve
Student:
Adds note & contact details
Issues command to print the thesis
Theses Centre:
Prints thesis
Contacts student

39. 21 European Partners: http://www.dart-europe.eu/

41. IReL-Open Initiative
Higher Education Authority -funded under Strategic Innovation Fund
National Development Plan
Research as critical to economic development
National research profile
Managed by the Irish Universities Association

42. IReL- Open: National Research Portal
To be hosted by Expertise Ireland
Single point of access to national research output
Harvested from university repositories
Includes published research across all disciplines
Author ID
Citation Analysis
Future: Data sets

45. TCD: First SHERPA non-UK Affiliate Partner http://www. sherpa. ac

51. 500p monograph – now available on Open Access
- OA requested by the authors, Professor Drew & Professor Bacik
- agreed with the publisher

53. Universitas 21 – Millenium Development Goals
Irish African Partnership for Research Capacity in Development Studies

55. The Open Access Movement…
is critically important if we are to contribute and share in new discoveries, and support the development of our region and the future of Africa.
- Piyushi Kotecha (CEO SARUA)

58. The Benefits to the Researcher
Promotion of your research and that of your group
Facility to generate and download a personal Curriculum Vitae..
A personal URL to link to from your business card or website.
A means of creating and maintaining up-to-date publications lists.
A means of generating reports for internal and external use.
Automatic inclusion in the annual TCD Calendar’s list of publications.
A means of avoiding repetition in the request-for / provision-of information.
An opportunity for your research profile to be exported to the Expertise Ireland portal.
Details from your RSS profile can be automatically used for your internal grant applications.
‘Live feed’ of information from the RSS onto School web pages
Upload the full text of publications (subject to copyright) directly into TCD’s open access digital repository and maximise its audience and impact on the world wide web.
Comply with funders’ mandates for dissemination of research outputs

59. In Memorium

60. Open Access Niamh Brennan Trinity College Dublin
Phone: