OCLC Research and euroCRIS, the international organisation for research information, have published a joint research report, Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey, which examines how research institutions worldwide are applying research information management (RIM) practices.
RIM is the aggregation, curation, and utilisation of information about research and is emerging as an area of increasing interest and relevance in many university libraries. RIM systems, also broadly known as current research information systems (CRISs), are gaining interest and attention worldwide for their contribution in dealing with new policies on open science, research funding, and national assessment.
To examine the state of RIM practices worldwide, OCLC Research and euroCRIS jointly developed a web-based survey that was administered from October 2017 through February 2018 that yielded 381 responses from 44 countries, demonstrating the global nature of RIM activities.
The report, written by a working group comprised of experts from both organisations, details the complexity of research information management practices. It examines how commercial and open-source platforms are becoming widely implemented across regions, co-existing with many region-specific solutions as well as locally developed systems. It also considers the factors that have led to the need for complex, cross-stakeholder teams to support institutional RIM activities, which increasingly includes the library.
The report, along with the full data set, banner tables, and the survey instrument, are available on the OCLC Research website.
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