Supporting Evaluation with Unique and Persistent Identifiers for Researchers

<p>Presentation in panel entitled "Evaluating the Global Impact of Research Investment," annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 16 Feb 2014, Chicago, Illinois. </p

The Emergence of Research Information Management (RIM) within US Libraries and Implications for Institutional Research

<div>Research universities, research funders, as well as individual researchers are increasingly looking for aggregated, interconnected research information to better understand the relationships, outputs, and impact of research activity. Research information management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of information about research (including publications and datasets). Recent advances in scholarly communications technology and networked information offer new opportunities for institutions to collect, share, and reuse the scholarly outputs of its researchers. </div><div><br></div><div>This poster describes the <a href="http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5794">emerging RIM landscape</a> in the United States, including an overview of the drivers, goals, and stakeholders. Libraries are valuable campus stakeholders in RIM implementation, seeking to support quality metadata and to support global discovery for institutional research. It also provides an overview of current OCLC Research and OCLC Research Library Partnership research projects investigating the research information management landscape. </div

Connecting Research and Researchers with ORCID

<p>Presentation at Texas A&M University, 14 Feb 2014</p

Linking Researchers with their Research: Persistent identifiers, registries, and interoperability standards

<p>Presentation from Society for Neuroscience Meeting, 12 November 2013, in San Diego, CA, USA. ABSTRACT: There are several initiatives underway implement persistent and interoperable identifiers for researchers and their works, to facilitate information flow and enable data re-use. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of these initiatives. While in some scientific disciplines researcher identification and data citation is an established community norm, lack of interoperability between identification systems for research works on the one hand and contributors on the other remains a major hurdle. It is difficult not only to associate creators with their own research, but also to measure impact, track data use/reuse, and understand career contributions.<br>We will illustrate the potential of coordinating these initiatives using ORCID as a case study. ORCID is a community-driven organization dedicated to providing a registry of unique and persistent identifiers for researchers, and illustrate interoperability. This registry acts as a switchboard, connecting together existing but fragmented researcher identifiers, and stores persistent connections to publications, datasets, grants, other research works and current and past affiliations. ORCID is a key component in solving the name ambiguity problem in research communication, which in turn is critical for data re-use, collaboration, and reporting.</p

The Value Proposition of Libraries in Research Information Management

<div>Research universities, research funders, as well as individual researchers are increasingly looking for aggregated, interconnected research information. This poster, presented at the 2017 VIVO Conference in New York City, describes the adoption of research information management (RIM) practices and shares about OCLC Research Library Partnership (ORLP) research efforts examining the adoption, roles, and activities. </div><div><br></div><div>Our poster describes the coalescing practices of research information management, and we offer a model for understanding the variety of RIM practices adopted by research institutions, including public profiles for expertise discovery; workflows for faculty activity reporting; integration with open access repositories; decision support reporting for departments, colleges, and senior administration; as well as increasing interoperability and reuse locally and globally. </div><div><br></div><div>Implementation of research information management presents organizational challenges for institutions because of the multitude of stakeholders and the absence of a clear “owner” for RIM implementation. Libraries are important stakeholders within this landscape, and can play a role in helping to develop new organizational models and services. </div><div><br></div><div>Library experience and expertise with bibliographic metadata and standards are important contributions to RIM implementations. Librarians' dedication to serving researchers also means they assume prominent roles with training and education for faculty and researchers, roles eschewed by other stakeholders. </div><div><br></div

Adoption and Integration of Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management

<p>These slides were presented at the LIBER conference in Patras, Greece, on 7 July 2017. </p><p>Abstract: Research institutions throughout Europe are engaged in research information management (RIM, sometimes known as Current Research Information Systems or CRIS) practices to aggregate, curate, and utilize information about the research conducted at their institutions. These efforts are rapidly scaling nationally and transnationally, as advancing technologies, standards, and networked information offer new opportunities for interoperability and discoverability. </p><p>Team members from OCLC Research are collaboratively examining this evolving ecosystem in conjunction with LIBER, specifically investigating the adoption and integration of person and organizational persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their role not only for disambiguation but also their current and future use for supporting interoperability in research information management.</p><p>Our research study is a close examination of research management practices in three national contexts: Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands, selected because they demonstrate useful parallels as well as differences that represent a host of emerging practices in research information management in Europe. Research has been conducted through semi-structured interviews with practitioners and stakeholders within universities, national libraries, and collaborative ICT organizations.</p><p>These slides provide an overview of the RIM and PID landscape in each of these countries, particularly exploring efforts to develop shared research information management infrastructure operationalized at a group, regional, or national level. It also introduces some preliminary conclusions from our research, which will be published in full at a future date. </p><p><br></p