Research Information Systems for Higher Education Institutions in

Research Information Systems for Higher Education Institutions in Italy

Italian Higher Education context Ministry of University and Research Students Database Courses Research funds Professors Ministerial Information System Database Delivery Database Students and learning Research Accounting University HR Planning & Controlling

for Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca

Thanks God, a simple Summary 1. Research project assessment 2. National research assessment exercise

Project assessment (1/2) • Each year • All in one month • Only electronic submission • A personal workspace for each researcher • We know all about them (219. 144 registered users, with carriers and curricula) • We have scientific production of all of them (3. 333. 615 publications) • A catalogue of scientific journal titles (201. 903 journals)

Project assessment (2/2) >4. 000 project proposals presented every year (56. 172 research projects in the last 12 years) >13. 000 organizational units involved >6. 500 international experts for peer review A ranking is calculated Funds assignment Monitoring the financial data during project life-cycle Collect periodical reports and final statements

Summary 1. Research project assessment 2. National research assessment exercise

national research assessment exercise (1/2) • • • Covers from 3 to 5 years Only the best research products Bibliometric indicators Peer review Good ranking position means more funds and salary increase

national research assessment exercise (2/2) • First exercise was successfully concluded in 2006 • 17. 329 products were evaluated by 151 panelist, assisted by 6. 661 international experts • At least 2 blind reviews per product • Final ranking calculated by scientific area and by structure • A new (bigger!) exercise will start very soon

interoperability ü Universities and Research Institutions can exchange data with the National Research Information System via: üweb services üfile upload/download üOAI-PMH (work in progress)

standards ü Researchers’ curricula are in Europass format. We are going to use the same format for University professors CVs soon. ü We are working to provide research projects data according to the CERIF 2008 standard. ü For publications metadata exchange we use many formats, but our main reference is MODS.

Italian Higher Education context Ministry of University and Research Students Database Students and learning Courses Database Research funds Delivery Accounting Single University HR Professors Database Planning & Controlling

U-GOV Solution Map

An Interconnected System Portal 3 Research Project Org. Structure Document Management People 2 Research Catalog Carriers 7 Ministerial Database 6 5 RI Sales and Purchases Inventory RU Remunerations 1 Course Planning ID management systems CSA Payroll Student Services ESSE 3 4 3° party Apps Student Management Accounting Sys. CO DI U-GOV

CINECA’s vision on research processes • • Project management internally and externally funded (Gov, EU, Industry): administering the grant, complying with regulations, reporting Projects to funders. • • Research results repository management (publications, patents, Results conference speeches, proceedings. . ) • • Research results assessment (publication, projects, research groups) Assessment • • Research assets management (research teams and groups, research units, laboratories, equipments, facilities, skills. . ) Assets • • • Dissemination and Technology transfer Dissemination Integration with national and istitutional repositories/systems www. u-gov. eu

U-GOV Research facts and figures • U-GOV Research installations: • Managed publications: • Year 2009 publications: • End users: • Publications linked to ministerial systems: • Reviewed/Assessed publications: 35 432. 773 197. 654 26. 538 177. 350 46. 734 www. u-gov. eu

Full Broad Interoperability MODS METS DC OAI SWORD CERIF CDOC-CRM SOAP METS BIBTEX PUBMED ENDNOTE OSIS DOI HANDLE MARC 21 SBN-MARC ONIX ? www. u-gov. eu

U-GOV & Full Interoperability Ministerial Systems www. u-gov. eu

What future for interoperability ? standards are a feasible goal but standards come through adoption so… we need to build tangible services for the research community on top of standardization ! www. u-gov. eu

Questions? Thank you for your attention Pierluigi Bonetti Ministerial Services and Support Systems Fabrizio Luglio Research Systems and Services for Universities www. u-gov. eu