1. Illinois Research Connections Researcher Information System Project Rebecca Bryant, PhD rabryant@illinois.edurabryant@illinois.edu http://go.illinois.edu/irc

2. Project goals Connect researchers with potential collaborators, and encourage interdisciplinary research Showcase Illinois research to external stakeholders, industry partners, and collaborators at other academic institutions Automate publication data collection from reliable source(s) Enable units and individuals to make timely updates to profiles This project is NOT intended to support activity reporting and assessment Goal 1 of the University of Illinois Strategic Plan proposes the development of a faculty profile-sharing database in order to promote scholarship, discovery & innovation. This system will: 2

3. Project scope Collaborative OVCR/Library initiative Comprehensive – Up to 2,500 faculty & researcher profiles – Inclusion of all HR appointments for each included researcher Interdisciplinary – Will include all disciplines, academic colleges and departments at Illinois – It will also include research-oriented centers and institutes 3

4. Governance & communications Steering & governance committees are providing guidance Training and ongoing support will be provided for colleges, departments, individual researchers We will partner with departments, libraries, communication officers, and many others to engage internal and external audiences 4

5. Project platform & data sources Proprietary product called “Pure” by Elsevier Pre-populates profiles with publication information in Scopus publications index Automatic weekly updates from Scopus data Automatic creation of Fingerprint TM concepts 5

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7. Challenges & Opportunities Scopus index is comprehensive, but it has some subject area weaknesses, particularly in HSS University Library is working to scrape OCLC WorldCat publications data to capture monographs & book chapters Will include in Spring 2016 PUBLIC launch Phased roll-out Fall 2015: AY2015 faculty only—no clinical faculty and only OVCR AP’s Will work to include NTT researchers (up to 2,500) after BETA Difficult to capture NTT researchers No automated way Will work with colleges annually to manually collect and maintain these researchers, beginning Fall 2015 Vendor product can limit customization Still determining how to best address some configuration challenges, particularly those created by multiple HR appointments 7

8. Timeline BETA launch – Fall 2015 – Working system with Elsevier-delivered publications data – Available to UIUC IP addresses only – AY2015 faculty & OVCR institutes – No humanities faculty or units – Campus-only communications & training, working with units to designate administrators PUBLIC launch – Spring 2016 – AY2016 faculty – Inclusion of humanities faculty, units, and better coverage of their publications – Expanded inclusion of NTT researchers, as designated by their colleges – Widespread outreach 8

9. Longer-term Opportunities Expanding coverage – Add monographs & book chapters from OCLC WorldCat to enhance humanities/social science coverage – Campus information: grants, patents – Unit/individual enhancement of records – Improve author disambiguation through integration with ORCID Interoperability – How can other campus systems ingest this automatically-updated information? 9

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11. FAQs How will I be able to access? – There will be a link from http://go.illinois.edu/irc once the portal is live.http://go.illinois.edu/irc How can colleges allocate non-tenure-line faculty & researchers for IRC inclusion? – Annual nomination process by colleges, per allocation formula, up to 2,500 researchers – http://bit.ly/IRC_NTT http://bit.ly/IRC_NTT Can I edit my profile? – Yes, via Shibboleth authentication. – Users can delegate proxies to edit their profiles (must be @illinois.edu) – You can change your display name, add missing publications, manage existing ones, and add profile enhancements like a photo and other CV information – Visit our FAQs at http://go.illinois.edu/irc for guidancehttp://go.illinois.edu/irc Who do I contact with questions? – irc-help@lists.illinois.edu irc-help@lists.illinois.edu 11