1. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor SICRIS Slovenian Current Research Information System Davor Šoštarič Aleš Bošnjak Institute of information science, Maribor

2. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 2 Slovenia – Basic Facts zPopulation: 2,000,000 zArea: 20,000 km2 z2 “larger” cities (Ljubljana and Maribor) z3 universities z4 neighbouring countries zEU member from May 1, 2005

3. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 3 SICRIS – What’s all about? zThe national CRIS zIn harmonization with European trends zDevelopment and operation: Institute of Information Science Maribor (IZUM) – from 1998 zAuthorization by the ministry, responsible for science (today: ARRS - the Slovenian Research Agency) zBy and large – everything on development and support of research activities

4. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 4 Database Entities zResearch organizations zResearch groups zResearchers zResearch Projects zResearch Programs zCompliant to the CERIF

5. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 5 Data in SICRIS zDatabases (May 11, 2005): -Research organisations (560) -Researchers (10788) - Research projects(2982) - Research programs(597) zUp to 2003: Financial data – details about public financing of the research projects zSICRIS has a link to the COBISS system and its bibliographic database, which allows the users a direct insight into researchers' bibliographies

6. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 6 Ministry / ARRS zState Budget issues zLaw on Research Activity (1991; 2002) zNational Research Program zSecondary legislation (acts, rules, bills, …) zDirectories, Registries, … zImage of the Slovenian research potential which candidates for the state budget financial sources  very strict formal rules

7. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 7 New Quality zIn the pre-SICRIS era all data were used exclusive for the Ministry (and hidden within internal DBs) zSICRIS brings up “the Public” as observer and consequently informal regulator zSICRIS introduces transparency zResearchers and research organizations became “subjects” and are not just “objects” anymore zMinistry still keeps rights for granting the “licenses for budgetary financing” to researchers and research organizations

8. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 8 Additional in SICRIS zAdditional data (descriptions, EU FW projects,...) zResearch organizations and researchers who do not conform to the very strict Ministry’s rules zFreelancers, experts,... zResearchers of Slovenian origin  The whole Slovenian research potential / capacities

9. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 9 Bibliography Online zSource: Co-operative On-line Bibliographic System and Services COBISS and its bibliographic database COBIB zResearchers: complete and representative

10. Members meeting, Tartu, May 2005 © Institute of information science, Maribor 10 Bibliography Online zResearchers, various groups: not only just bibliography, but also the quantitative measurement: ybased on classification by tipology yalgorithms permit various categorizations (taken into account: IF, SCIE, SSCI, A&H, JCR, WoS, spec. DBs,...) yresults are expressed in “points” yit’s up to the ministry, university,... how to interpret and use for their purposes (performance evaluation, habilitation process,...)

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