1. Supporting Open Research
Ex Libris Esploro
Supporting Open Research

2. Paving the way to greater impact of academic research by maximizing visibility, efficiency, and compliance of research activities, leveraging library expertise and technology

3. The Research Solutions Landscape
Current Research Information Systems
Research Administration
Systems
Institutional
Repositories
Research Data
Management Systems
RAS (purple) – Huron, Kali
RDM (Green) – Figshare, OSF, Dropbox, GitHub
IR (Orange) – Bepress, DSpace, EPrints
CRIS (light blue) – Pure, Symplectic Elements, Digital Measures

4. Navigating the Complexity of Research Processes
Researchers
Librarians
Research/Provost Office
Publish, publish, publish (for impact & recognition)
Support research processes
Increase effectiveness of research activities
Too many systems
Overhead of working with IRs
Hard to maintain public profile
Growing competition for funding
Inconsistent, manual workflows
Multiple systems & data models
Inconsistent data quality
Far from the research process
Lack of discoverability of research assets
Risk of non-compliance
Compliance of OA publications
Visibility to publication metrics
Fostering interdisciplinary collaborations
Impact on: Visibility, Efficiency, Compliance
This simplified flow diagram outlines the path a typical research workflow might follow. Data is generated in each step of the Research Process.

5. The Esploro Framework: Research Services Platform
Information Exposure
Researcher │ Librarian/Admin │ Discovery
Analytics & Reports
Researcher Profiles
System of Research Objects
Research Assets Management
Publications │ Creative Works │ Research Data │ Activities
Metadata curation and enrichment
APIs & tools for community collaboration
Mediated Deposit
Automatic Capture
Direct Deposit
Automatic capture is a way to harvest data (publication, research data and metadata) from external sources like indexes, national repositories, disciplinary repositories etc.
Direct deposit: publications, research data, other research objects
Tiered storage – storage can be in Esploro, or locally at the university. The model is flexible and can meet the university Community – DMP example: bank and templates, reports or metadata tools that are developed by one ARL can be used by another
needs
Research Assets

6. Esploro and Open Research

7. Supporting Open Research
Research ecosystem
Data
Scholarly metrics
Supporting Open Research
Collaboration
Research standards

8. Open Research Ecosystem
Open APIs
Interoperability with academic systems PI
Actions
Flows
Data
Discovery
Scholarly profiles
Research management
Data repositories
Open publishing systems

9. Open Data
Research assets accessible from any platform (e.g. Google/Google Scholar, discovery systems)
Scholarly profiles accessible from other institutional profile systems
Support for open access publication models efficient management and analysis of Article Processing Charges (APC)

10. Open Scholarly Metrics
Metrics and reports available to 3rd party analysis and reporting systems
ESPLORO ANALYTICS MANAGER
Journal Metrics
Author Metrics
Citation Metrics
Altmetrics
Usage Data
Media Reports
Repository Statistics
Esploro Portals (researcher / library / research office)
APIs
3rd Party Reporting Systems
Connector

11. Open Research Standards – FAIR
ACCESSIBLE
Data & metadata are openly available via a trusted repository
FINDABLE Research output & data with rich metadata and persistent identifiers
REUSABLE
Clear usage licenses and accurate
information on data provenance
INTEROPERABLE
Formal, shared, and understandable representation of knowledge

12. Community Collaboration
Esploro “Community Zone”
Community collaboration platforms PI
Data management plans
Metadata tools
Best practices
KPIs & benchmarks
Global profiles
Development network
Knowledge Center
Idea Exchange

13. THANK YOU