1. World of CRIS - What's New World of CRIS What’s New

2. World of CRIS - What's New Agenda A brief overview of changes taking place in the CRIS world  Issues We Face  Regional Snapshot  Technological Changes  Social Impact  What This Means for EuroCRIS

3. World of CRIS - What's New Issues We Face Problem: The use of the term CRIS, or the lack thereof Challenge: “Branding”  Turning CRIS into a respected discipline: academic and business

4. World of CRIS - What's New Regional Snapshot Government Initiatives Private Initiatives Universities Europe International Organizations Are there discernable trends?

5. World of CRIS - What's New Government Initiatives USA  NSF  Fastlane Fastlane Projects db Online submission and review of proposals, and management of funded projects  NIH  CRISP db of 2 million+ federally funded biomedical projects CRISP

6. World of CRIS - What's New Government Initiatives  NASA  Department of Agriculture (CRIS)CRIS  Documentation and reporting system for ongoing research What is being done; who is doing it; where it is being conducted; when it is performed; progress achieved; and publications produced

7. World of CRIS - What's New Government Initiatives  IAEGC IAEGC  Common set of terms for e-grants processing  Federal Commons Federal Commons  Grants management portal Public information E-grant transactions

8. World of CRIS - What's New Government Initiatives Japan  NACSIS NACSIS  Information repository on research activities and resources (institutes, researchers, equipment, subjects, facilities, etc…), career information service

9. World of CRIS - What's New Government Initiatives Australia  CSIRO CSIRO  Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Scientists working together to provide solutions to problems facing Australia –Comprehensive research information system on activities

10. World of CRIS - What's New Government Initiatives Slovenia  SICRIS  National system, financed by government  CERIF 2000 compliant (75%)  Bibliography records are in MARC format Other national schemes to be discussed tomorrow

11. World of CRIS - What's New Private Initiatives Community of Science  Post HW3 era  New CEO & President  New director of global affairs Inroads into the UK, China, Australia and Scandinavia  Increased commercial partnerships  Keeping a distant eye on EuroCRIS Richard Tomlin says hello Interest in benchmarking and metrics ARIS: Academic Research Information System  Funding Opportunity Information

12. World of CRIS - What's New Private Initiatives RAND InfoEd  ERA suite of applications  Proposals development; proposal tracking; technology transfer; project management; compliance systems; clinical trials  Expertise db  Funding opportunities db  Company presence in Europe since 1997

13. World of CRIS - What's New Private Initiatives ScienceWise  Funding opportunities db  Heavy on federally-funded schemes  Foundation Commons  Online submission to funds  Virtual collaboration space

14. World of CRIS - What's New Universities Bar-Ilan University  Online research catalogcatalog  Funding opportunities dbdb  Targeted messaging systemsystem

15. World of CRIS - What's New Europe European Commission  CORDIS  ERGO  CERIF  ERIS  Europa  I’m Europe  Etc… COST, Eureka Societies, foundations, associations, etc…

16. World of CRIS - What's New International Organizations UNESCO  90 bibliographic, project, and other databases; Library; Archives; Documentation OECD  Library; Documentation; Statistical Information

17. World of CRIS - What's New What Initiatives Are You Aware of? www.shared.de/default.asp www.fao.org/agris

18. World of CRIS - What's New Are There Discernable Trends? There is a demonstrated move to comprehensive information systems, offering one-stop shopping to end users, via the Web.  Fund information = projects  Others = expertise centered

19. World of CRIS - What's New Are There Discernable Trends? People are doing more with information today than before.  No longer browsing  Including references in documents  Emailing results to peers  Adding to favorites/bookmarks for reuse  statistics

20. World of CRIS - What's New Technological Changes Pervasive Computing, 24*7*365  Anytime anywhere GRIDs Metadata XML Bibliographical databases  Web databases  These issues are addressed during these two days by other capable colleagues.

21. World of CRIS - What's New Social Impact There is a demonstrated increased need for quality information (See ERA, I.e.)  Information is recognized as key resource for success  Information is power  Everyone needs to find a person (expertise), an idea (project) or a product (result)  Information is instrumental in helping to set global agenda(s)

22. World of CRIS - What's New What This Means for EuroCRIS CRIS, though not well defined, is changing in scope and scale  Is there a European portal on Research Information (RI)? Technology is rapidly changing (still) HOWEVER, do we have any proof of CRIS impacting on anything, anywhere?  What, if anything, are we going to do about this?