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Research information management systems: a new service category?

RIM is supported by a particular system category, the Research Information Management System (RIMs), sometimes referred to by an earlier name, the CRIS (Current Research Information System).

For reasons discussed below, this area has been more prominent outside the US, but interest is also now growing in the US. See for example, the mention of RIMs in the Library FY15 Strategic Goals at Dartmouth College.

Research information management

The name is unfortunately confusing – a reserved sense living alongside more general senses.  What is the reserved sense? Broadly, RIM is used to refer to the integrated management of information about the research life-cycle, and about the entities which are party to it (e.g. researchers, research outputs, organizations, grants, facilities, ..). The aim is to synchronize data across parts of the university, reducing the burden to all involved of collecting and managing data about the research process. An outcome is to provide greater visibility onto institutional research activity. Motivations include better internal reporting and analytics, support for compliance and assessment, and improved reputation management through more organized disclosure of research expertise and outputs.

A major driver has been the need to streamline the provision of data to various national university research assessment exercises (for example, in the UK, Denmark and Australia). Without integrated support, responding to these is costly, with activities fragmented across the Office of Research, individual schools or departments, and other support units, including, sometimes, the library. (See this report on national assessment regimes and the roles of libraries.)

Some of the functional areas covered by a RIM system may be:

• Award management and identification of award opportunities . Matching of interests to potential funding sources. Supporting management of and communication around grant and contracts activity.
• Publications management . Collecting data about researcher publications. Often this will be done by searching in external sources (Scopus and Web of Science, for example) to help populate profiles, and to provide alerts to keep them up to date.
• Coordination and publishing of expertise profiles . Centralized upkeep of expertise profiles. Pulling of data from various systems. This may be for internal reporting or assessment purposes, to support individual researchers in providing personal data in a variety of required forms (e.g. for different granting agencies), and for publishing to the web through an institutional research portal or other venue.
• Research analytics/reporting . Providing management information about research activity and interests, across departments, groups and individuals.
• Compliance with internal/external mandates .
• Support of open access . Synchronization with institutional repository. Managing deposit requirements. Integration with sources of information about Open Access policies.

To meet these goals, a RIM system will integrate data from a variety of internal and external systems. Typically, a university will currently manage information about these processes across a variety of administrative and academic departments. Required data also has to be pulled from external systems, notably data about funding opportunities and publications.

Several products have emerged specifically to support RIM in recent years. This is an important reason for suggesting that it is emerging as a recognized service category.

• Pure (Elsevier). “Pure aggregates your organization’s research information from numerous internal and external sources, and ensures the data that drives your strategic decisions is trusted, comprehensive and accessible in real time. A highly versatile system, Pure enables your organization to build reports, carry out performance assessments, manage researcher profiles, enable expertise identification and more, all while reducing administrative burden for researchers, faculty and staff.” [ Pure ]
• Converis (Thomson Reuters). “Converis is the only fully configurable research information management system that can manage the complete research lifecycle, from the earliest due diligence in the grant process through the final publication and application of research results. With Converis, understand the full scope of your organization’s contributions by building scholarly profiles based on our publishing and citations data–then layer in your institutional data to more specifically track success within your organization.” [ Converis ]
• Symplectic Elements . “A driving force of our approach is to minimise the administrative burden placed on academic staff during their research. We work with our clients to provide industry leading software services and integrations that automate the capture, reduce the manual input, improve the quality and expedite the transfer of rich data at their institution.”[ Symplectic ]

Pure and Converis are parts of broader sets of research management and analytics services from, respectively, Elsevier ( Elsevier research intelligence ) and Thomson Reuters ( Research management and evaluation ). Each is a recent acquisition, providing an institutional approach alongside the aggregate, network level approach of each company’s broader research analytics and management services. Symplectic is a member of the very interesting Digital Science portfolio. Digital Science is a company set up by Macmillan Publishers to incubate start-ups focused on scientific workflow and research productivity. These include, for example, Figshare and Altmetric .

Other products are also relevant here. As RIM is an emerging area, it is natural to expect some overlap with other functions. For example, there is definitely overlap with backoffice research administration systems – Ideate from Consilience or solutions from infoEd Global , for example. And also with more publicly oriented profiling and expertise systems on the front office side.

With respect to the latter, Pure and Symplectic both note that they can interface to VIVO . Furthermore, Symplectic can provide “VIVO services that cover installation, support, hosting and integration for institutions looking to join the VIVO network”. It also provides implementation support for the Profiles Research Networking Software .

As I discuss further below, one interesting question for libraries is the relationship between the RIMs or CRIS and the institutional repository. Extensions have been written for both Dspace and Eprints to provide some RIMs-like support. For example, Dspace-Cris extends the Dspace model to cater for the Cerif entities. This is based on work done for the Scholar’s Hub at Hong Kong University.

It is also interesting to note that none of the three open source educational community organizations – Kuali, The Duraspace Foundation, or The Apereo Foundation – has a directly comparable offering, although there are some adjacent activities. In particular, Kuali Coeus for Research Administration is “a comprehensive system to manage the complexities of research administration needs from the faculty researcher through grants administration to federal funding agencies”, based on work at MIT. Duraspace is now the organizational home for VIVO.

Finally, there are some national approaches to providing RIMs or CRIS functionality, associated with a national view of research outputs. This is the case in South Africa , Norway and The Netherlands , for example.

Another signal that this is an emerging service category is the existence of active standards activities. Two are especially relevant here: CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) from EuroCRIS, which provides a format for exchange of data between RIM systems, and the Casrai dictionary . CASRAI is the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information .

So, what about research information management (in this reserved sense) and libraries? One of the interesting things to happen in recent years is that a variety of other campus players are developing service agendas around digital information management that may overlap with library interests. This has happened with IT, learning and teaching support, and with the University press, for example. This coincides with another trend, the growing interest in tracking, managing and disclosing the research and learning outputs of the institution: research data, learning materials, expertise profiles, research reports and papers, and so on. The convergence of these two trends means that the library now has shared interests with the Office of Research, as well as with other campus partners. As both the local institutional and public science policy interest in university outputs grows, this will become a more important area, and the library will increasingly be a partner. Research Information Management is a part of a slowly emerging view of how institutional digital materials will be managed more holistically, with a clear connection to researcher identity.

As noted above, this interest has been more pronounced outside the US to date, but will I think become a more general interest in coming years. It will also become of more general interest to libraries. Here are some contact points.

• The institutional repository boundary. It is acknowledged that Institutional Repositories (IRs) have been a mixed success. One reason for this is that they are to one side of researcher workflows, and not necessarily aligned with researcher incentives. Although also an additional administrative overhead, Research Information Management is better aligned with organizational and external incentives. See for example this presentation (from Royal Holloway, U of London) which notes that faculty are more interested in the CRIS than they had been in the IR, ‘because it does more for them’. It also notes that the library no longer talks about the ‘repository’ but about updating profiles and loading full-text. There is a clear intersection between RIMs and the institutional repository and the boundary may be managed in different ways. Hong Kong University, for example, has evolved its institutional repository to include RIMs or CRIS features. Look at the publications or presentations of David Palmer, who has led this development, for more detail. There is a strong focus here on improved reputation management on the web through effective disclosure of researcher profiles and outputs. Movement in the other direction has also occurred, where a RIMs or CRIS is used to support IR-like services. Quite often, however, the RIMs and IR are working as part of an integrated workflow, as described here .
• Management and disclosure of research outputs and expertise. There is a growing interest in researcher and research profiles, and the RIMs may support the creation and management of a ‘research portal’ on campus. An important part of this is assisting researchers to more easily manager their profiles, including prompting with new publications from searches of external sources. See the research portal at Queen’s University Belfast for an example of a site supported by Pure. Related to this is general awareness about promotion, effective publishing, bibliometrics, and management of online research identity. Some libraries are supporting the assignment of ORCIDs. The presentations of Wouter Gerritsma, of Wageningen University in The Netherlands, provide useful pointers and experiences.
• Compliance with mandates/reporting . The role of RIMs in supporting research assessment regimes in various countries was mentioned earlier: without such workflow support, participation was expensive and inefficient. Similar issues are arising as compliance to institutional or national mandates needs to be managed. Earlier this year, the California Digital Library announced that it had contracted with Symplectic “to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy”. US Universities are now considering the impact of the OSTP memo “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research,” [ PDF ] which directs funding agencies with an annual R&D budget over $100 million to develop a public access plan for disseminating the results of their research. ICPSR summarises the memo and its implications here . It is not yet clear how this will be implemented, but it is an example of the growing science and research policy interest in the organized disclosure of information about, and access to, the outputs of publicly funded research. This drives a University wide interest in research information management. In this context, SHARE may provide some focus for greater RIM awareness.
• Management of institutional digital materials. I suggest above that RIM is one strand of the growing campus interest in managing institutional materials – research data, video, expertise profiles, and so on. Clearly, the relationship between research information management, whatever becomes of the institutional repository, and the management of research data is close. This is especially the case in the US, given the inclusion of research data within the scope of the OSTP memo. The library provides a natural institutional partner and potential home for some of this activity, and also expertise in what Arlitsch and colleagues call ‘new knowledge work’, thinking about the identifiers and markup that the web expects.

Whether or not Research Information Management become a new service category in the US in quite the way I have discussed it here, it is clear the issues raised will provide important opportunities for libraries to become further involved in supporting the research life of the university.

Picture: The feature picture is a screenshot of the public face of the research information management system at the University of Bath. I worked at Bath for several years, and a colleague kindly populated with RIM with some of my publications after I left.

Note: I made some cosmetic updates on 4 March 2021 on transition to the new platform, to include adding a feature picture and headings. I resisted the temptation to update it as quite a bit has happened in intervening years. It has been cited quite a few times as an introduction to the topic. Work by colleagues at OCLC Research has done much to advance the RIM agenda in the US and elsewhere.

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Accessed by the ‘Staff Applications’ page on the UNE Intranet, Pure will house all current awards and provide end to end funding applications.

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The RIMS project team is getting ready to roll out the new Research Information Management System (RIMS), first announced in November 2021, across the university. The implementation will take a phased approach with the first phase to be implemented in Spring 2022.

The system is based on the Elsevier Pure product and will provide UNE with a versatile, centralised research information management system.

Following implementation of Phase 1, UNE will be able to manage awarded projects, build useful reports, carry out performance assessments, manage researcher profiles, enable research networking and expertise discovery, and reduce manual administrative burdens for researchers, faculties and staff.

Information will be stored centrally, significantly simplifying management of academic and administrative workloads by offering a single source of information and project management solutions such as milestone management, reporting and quality control, and providing a holistic view of UNE’s research portfolio. Previously, academics were unable to access their overall project information from Research Master – milestones were sought from the grants team, contract details from legal, invoicing timelines from finance resulting in inconsistent project management approaches across the university. 

The new RIMS will also eliminate the multiple paper-based processes currently being used such as project approval forms and emailed approval trails, and allow the researchers to have ownership and control of their projects from conception to completion.

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In anticipation of RIMS going live in September/October, academic staff are asked to ensure their are update.

The RIMS project has a team of consultants working to update the academic staff profiles in both the current “Find an Expert” search and the new, soon to be launched Research Information Management System.  The aim is to support academics with updating their profiles so prospective HDR students searching for a supervisor, or anyone searching for an expert in a particular field for collaboration can easily access the information they need.

Academic staff members should have received an email from a RIMS consultant asking them to fill in a prepopulated spreadsheet that will allow the team to update their research profiles in both the existing staff profile (they will create it if one doesn’t exist) and the profile for the new RIMS. 

The team’s intention is to make “Find an Expert” and the new RIMS as accurate and up to date as and they would appreciate it if everyone could jump on board and send their spreadsheets back as soon as possible. 

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What are Research Information Management Systems?

In a 2014 blog post , Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC Vice President, Membership and Research, Chief Strategist) wrote about Research Information Management Systems (RIMS) as a potential new service category for libraries. RIMS collect and store structured data about faculty research and scholarly activities for one institution, with the intention of repurposing the information in a variety of ways. Academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada are implementing systems such as Activity Insight, Pure, Converis, and Symplectic Elements, which track publications and scholarly activities of faculty. These systems give an overall picture of the research and scholarly enterprise of an institution, and they offer faculty tools for collaborating, publicizing their work, complying with policies (such as open access policies), and creating reports for faculty annual review or promotion and tenure.

It is important to note that RIMS is not the only name by which these systems are known. In Europe, where these systems were first developed and used, a more common term is Current Research Information Systems (CRIS). Other terms include “profile system” or “networking tool” and variations thereof.

Platforms and Standards

Several RIMS platforms are available and offer varying options. Many tools have particular strengths in one aspect of research information management, such as publication and grants management, faculty activity reporting, or collaboration and networking for research and scholarship. A useful Wikipedia article compares systems and provides information on their data sources and formats, interoperability and integration, functionality, controlled vocabulary or ontologies, and bibliometrics.

These systems are distinguished from other web-based networking sites such as LinkedIn or Google Scholar in terms of their authority (RIMS ingest data from authoritative sources) and metrics tools (such as Journal Impact Factor or Altmetrics). They also employ standards or common data formats for interoperability, enabling importation of external data and reuse of system data, such as for CV’s and biosketches, or to populate the institutional repository.

Below are some of the more well-known RIMS in the U.S. and Canada. Many platforms offer more functionality than the descriptions below imply, and providers are regularly adding new features and modules. Some institutions choose to use one platform, while others use a combination of platforms for different purposes. Interoperability standards allow for multiple systems to communicate or export data to other systems.

Commercial Platforms

Converis, Pure, and Symplectic Elements offer robust functionality for publication and grant award management, and they are increasingly being used for faculty activity reporting.

• Converis (Thomson Reuters): ( http://converis.thomsonreuters.com/ )
• Pure (Elsevier): ( https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure )
• Symplectic Elements: ( http://symplectic.co.uk/products/elements/ )

Digital Measures and Data180 offer platforms for faculty activity reporting and CV creation.

• Activity Insight (Digital Measures): ( http://www.digitalmeasures.com/activity-insight/ )
• Faculty180 (Data180): ( http://www.data180.com/faculty180.php )

Open Source Platforms

Profiles and VIVO are designed for research networking and collaboration, providing a web-based snapshot of faculty scholarship in an online profile and tools for finding expertise within research areas.

• Profiles: ( http://profiles.catalyst.harvard.edu/ )
• VIVO: ( http://www.vivoweb.org/ )

Standards and Metrics

Standards for RIMS are evolving. The CRIS community in Europe uses a common standard, CERIF (Common European Research Information Format), to support exchange of data between RIMS. The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) has developed a dictionary of common terms used in research administration information. In addition, RIMS can provide metrics from providers like Thomson Reuters (Research Analytics) and Elsevier (Snowball Metrics), or emerging alternatives (such as Altmetric). RIMS can also use ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifiers for author disambiguation.

• CERIF: ( http://eurocris.org/cerif/main-features-cerif )
• CASRAI Dictionary: ( http://dictionary.casrai.org/ )
• Thomson Reuters Research Analytics: ( http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/ )
• Snowball Metrics: ( http://www.snowballmetrics.com/ )
• Altmetric: ( https://www.altmetric.com/ )
• ORCID: ( http://orcid.org/ )

Benefits and Challenges

RIMS benefit academic institutions through both their efficiency and their effectiveness. Providing a central repository of information about faculty scholarship and research activities, from which multiple outputs may be exported, allows for efficient capture and reuse of faculty data. RIMS can help increase the visibility of scholarship on campus, show trends in funding or research areas, and identify expertise for grant applications, interdisciplinary research collaboration, or campus communications. By capturing data from authoritative sources and offering tools for analytics and metrics, RIMS also address a strategic need on many campuses to show the effectiveness of academic programs.

However, adopting RIMS can be a slow process. Outside of grants and publications, much of the information an institution may want to capture about their faculty does not have a source and requires manual entry (for example, honors and awards, students mentored, journal editorships, or society memberships). Non-federal grant data is difficult to capture automatically. In the area of publications, coverage for many disciplines (especially humanities and social sciences) or for particular publication types (especially grey literature such as lectures, technical reports, or white papers) is not complete in the available automated data sources. There may also be organizational or political roadblocks: resistance from faculty, a lack of resources for data entry, or funding issues.

What Librarians Need To Know About RIMS

Libraries implement these systems in a number of ways, from tracking publications, to creating links to institutional repositories, to leadership, training and funding. In some cases, the library’s work with RIMS is an extension of the scholarly output assessment services already provided. For example, the library may already be involved in research data management, operating a repository, or supporting institutional review and accreditation. Library involvement in RIMS implementation is a natural extension of all of these roles, and offers an opportunity for the library to advocate for positive changes in scholarly communication, such as open access or alternative measures of research impact. However, the library may also easily fall into a purely administrative role with RIMS implementation. The earlier the library can establish a place at the table, the better the chance it has in adopting a leadership and advocacy role.

References and Further Reading

Börner, Katy, Michael Conlon, Jon Corson-Rikert, and Ying Ding. 2012. VIVO: A semantic approach to scholarly networking and discovery . Morgan & Claypool Publishers. http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00428ED1V01Y201207WBE002 .

Bryant, Rebecca, Ruth Allee, Kate McCready, and Julie Speer. 2015. "Facilitating researcher discovery across all disciplines : challenges and strategies for implementing campus researcher profiles for humanists and social scientists." Digital Library Federation (DLF), October 26. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55689 .

Chin Roemer, Robin, and Rachel Borchardt. 2014. "Keeping up with... Altmetrics." Accessed February 29, 2016. http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/altmetrics .

Dempsey, Lorcan. 2014. "Research information management systems – a new service category?" Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog . October 26. Accessed February 29, 2016. http://orweblog.oclc.org/research-information-management-systems-a-new-service-category/ .

Jacobs, Neil. 2015. "Research information management." In Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People , by David Baker and Wendy Evans, 57-69. Chandos Publishing.

Kennan, Mary Anne, Sheila Corrall, and Waseem Afzal. 2014. "“Making space” in practice and education: research support services in academic libraries." Library Management 35 (8/9): 666-683. Accessed March 2, 2016. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/LM-03-2014-0037 .

MacColl, John, and Michael Jubb. 2011. "Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and Libraries." OCLC Research . Accessed March 2, 2016. http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2011/2011-10.pdf .

Ribeiro, Ligia, Pablo de Castro, and Michele Mennielli. 2016. "Final report: EUNIS – EUROCRIS joint survey on CRIS and IR." euroCRIS . Accessed March 7, 2016. http://www.eurocris.org/sites/default/files/files/cris-report-ED(1).pdf .

Russell, Rosemary. 2012. "Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study." UKOLN . March 22. Accessed March 2, 2016. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30979/3/CERIF_UK_landscape_report_v1.1.pdf .

Wikipedia. n.d. "Comparison of research networking tools and research profiling systems." Wikipedia . Accessed February 29, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_research_networking_tools_and_research_profiling_systems .

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