Jisc supports reporting, communicating, and measuring research in the UK through several initiatives: 1) Promoting the adoption of research data standards and identifiers like ORCID, OrgID, and DOIs to improve interoperability between systems. 2) Leading projects to increase compatibility between funders' and universities' research information management systems through OSIP and organizational identifier pilots. 3) Developing tools that help institutions monitor and report on open access compliance and discover openly accessible research outputs.

1. 8th June 2016
CRIS2016
Conference
How Jisc supports reporting, communicating
and measuring research in the UK

2. Mission
To enable people in higher education,
further education and skills in the UK to
perform at the forefront of
international practice by exploiting fully
the possibilities of modern digital
empowerment, content and
connectivity
Vision
To make the UK the most
digitally advanced
education and research
nation in the world

3. The UK Research Landscape
» Many research performing institutions (HEIs)
» Many different systems employed by funders and publishers
» No shared national awarding or reporting infrastructure
» Partial implementation of some key standards in some systems
» Changing environment (mandates, funding sources, international/
interdisciplinary focus)

4. Some existing workflows in the UK
RIM landscape
UK Research
Councils
Je-S
Internal
Systems
GtR
Research
Fish
CRIS
Finance/
HR/
Student
Third Parties
Bibliographic
Databases
Identifiers
Universit
y
Repository
Hefce/
Ref/HecBIS
Core
Other
funders
Konfe
r
Equipment.dat
a
HESA
Researc
her
Academia.net
Mendeley
Academia.edu
Research gate

5. › Standards and Identifiers in Research
• ORCID
• OrgID
› Reporting Research
• OSIP
• RIOXX
› Open Access to Research Outputs
• Sherpa Services
• Publications Router
• Jisc Monitor
• Discovering and accessing articles
• Research data metadata and discovery
› ‘Measuring’ Research and its Impact
• Usage and citation statistics of research articles and data
Relevant Topics

6. Main Areas for Standardisation
Research Data
Management
Scholarly
Communications
Research
Information
Management
› CERIF
› ORCID
› DOIs
› CASRAI pilots
• Data Management Plans,
• Open Access reporting
• Organisational Identifiers

7. Jisc CASRAI-UK Pilot:
Organisational Identifiers
› Landscape study identified 4 candidates
for UK OrgID
• UK PRN
• Digital Science
• ISNI
• Ringgold
› ISNI is a bridging ID which can link IDs
and records in different systems
› Use ISNI for provision and maintenance
of the orgID
› Use UK registration agencies to provide
an interface with ISNI

8. OrgIDs – Next steps
8
• A pilot clean-up of a closed set of UK institution data
• Investigation of feasibility of UK registration agencies
• Look at International use cases, such as where the ISNI API is
already in use.
• Work towards a sustainable and international approach: working
with THOR, CrossRef and DataCite.

9. Research Reporting: Overview of
Systems Interoperability Project (OSIP)
› Joint project between Jisc and UK research councils
(RCUK) - with wider sector input
› RCUK has 3 main systems, with little or no
interoperability with University systems
› Project led to the commitment of RCUK to the
introduction of both ORCID and OrgIDs throughout
their systems
› RCUK joined the ORCID consortium in December
2015

10. www.jisc.ac.uk/content/open-
access/our-role
Open Access to Research Outputs

11. Automatic Notification of Acceptance
(Publications Router)

12. Publications Router
https://pubrouter.jisc.ac.uk/

13. Managing and Analysing OA
information (Jisc Monitor)

14. Discovering and accessing an OA
article (OpenDOAR & CORE)

15. Interoperability in the RDM
Architecture
Credit for Architecture concepts: John Lewis (Sheffield) & Stuart Lewis (Edinburgh) http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1202230

16. Assessing usage (impact) of research
outputs
› Article Downloads – IRUS-UK
› Article Citations via text mining – Open Citation
Experiment
› Usage statistics and citation of Research Data
› Data download stats at file level
› How to cite data?

17. Conclusions
› Development of standardised terms, definitions and identifiers to
underpin the research information management systems network
› Development of open protocols to allow machine-readable access
to (and exchange of) information
› Development of open and reliable measures of research activity,
leading to reliable reporting, assessment and analysis of research
quality

18. Find out more…
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Dr Tamsin Burland
Subject specialist (research)
tamsin.burland@jisc.ac.uk
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