Presented by Rebecca Bryant at the OCLC Member Forum / 24 October 2016.

1. OCLC Member Forum / 24 October 2016
Emerging Services for Research Information
Management (RIM) through Enterprise Collaboration
Rebecca Bryant, PhD
Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research
orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881 * @rebeccabryant18

2. What is Research Information Management (RIM) in the
university environment?
Broadly defined, RIM is the integrated collection of the
scholarly outputs of its researchers by an institution
Other confusing appellations:
• CRIS (Current Research Information System)
• RNS (Research Networking System)
• RPS (Research Profiling System)
• RIMs are not independent researcher profile systems like
Research Gate or Academia.edu
• RIM ≠ Research Data Management (RDM)

3. Primary US RIM use cases
Reuse & interoperability
Faculty activity reporting workflows
Integration with campus IR
Benchmarking & reporting
Public researcher expertise profiles
Research
Information
Management
(RIM) System

4. Data sources
Internal data sources
Data Warehouse: HR appointments, courses taught
Campus awards management system: grants & contracts
Other campus systems: Patents, honors, media reports,
service & committees, grad student mentoring
Manual entry: uncaptured publications & artistic works
External data sources
Publications: Scopus, WOS, PubMed, ArXiv, SSRN
Impact metrics: Scopus, WOS, Altmetrics
Research
Information
Management
(RIM) System

5. RIM enterprise landscape
Reuse & interoperability
Faculty activity reporting workflows
Integration with campus IR
Benchmarking & reporting
Public researcher expertise profiles
Research
Information
Management
(RIM) System
Internal data
sources
External data
sources

6. Office of
undergraduate
research
Disciplines &
departmentsGraduate school
Vice president for
research
Provost
Institutional
Reporting
CIO
Campus center for
teaching & learning
Medical center
Tech Transfer Office
LIBRARY
Advancement &
corporate relations Data Warehouse
News Bureau
Colleges & depts
Research Data
Management
Digital
scholarship
User
education
& training
RIM
Institutional
Repository
Campus partners

7. Use case 1: Public researcher expertise profiles
• Public portal of
researchers, units, &
research outputs
• Aggregates the
research outputs of
the campus in a
public, searchable
form
• Increases institutional
& researcher visibility
and facilitates expert
discovery
experts.umn.edu

8. Use case 2: Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR)/Annual
Reviews
• Integrated workflow &
system of record for
supporting faculty
reviews
• Pre-populated from other
campus systems
(HR/directory, teaching,
grants, patents)
• Campus may implement
an enterprise system—or
perhaps colleges have
their own silo systems
provost.vt.edu/faculty_affairs/efars

9. Use case 3: Integration with campus institutional
repository
• Driven by campus OA policies
(US) and need for national OA
compliance (UK+)
• Attempts to identify OA eligible
works, notify & encourage
research self archiving
– Metadata imported from
publication indexes, supports
tracking of © permissions,
versions
– Researchers upload works into
RIM  appears in IR
scholarworks.duke.edu

10. Use case 4: Benchmarking & reporting
• Provides citation metrics,
Altmetrics re: individual
researchers
• In aggregate, institutions
may:
– Customize reports &
dashboards for department,
college, institution
– Analyze research strengths
– Identify the journals where
faculty are most commonly
publishing
– Support strategic decisions
• US: driven by reputation,
rank, & decision support
• Europe, Australia:
– National assessment
exercises
– Coordination for
institutional
benchmarking
– Also driven by reputation,
rank & decision support

11. Use case 5: Reuse & interoperability
“Enter once, reuse often”
Single system of record can be
used to support/populate other
outputs:
• Faculty creation of
biosketches and CVs
• Campus directory and faculty
web pages
• Academic program reviews,
accreditation
• .
Campus Directory

12. Primary RIM use cases
Reuse & interoperability
Faculty activity reporting workflows
Integration with campus IR
Benchmarking & reporting
Public researcher expertise profiles
Research
Information
Management
(RIM) System

13. Case study: Virginia Tech
4 of the uses cases:
1. Public research
expertise profiles
2. Faculty Activity
Reporting workflows
3. IR integration
4. Reporting
*active conversations about
reuse are underway

14. Takeaways
Complex institution-wide collaborations
with many stakeholders
Multiple use cases are likely to
adopted on a single campus
Libraries have valuable expertise to
offer to campus

15. Discussion
Rebecca Bryant, PhD
Senior Program Officer
bryantr@oclc.org