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How can you assess your organisation through a CRIS? The Norwegian national CRIS, FRIDA, and evaluation by means of research output. Structure of Presentation Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output Research Output – Publications Requirements of a CRIS in this context System Solution
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How can you assess your organisation through a CRIS?The Norwegian national CRIS, FRIDA, and evaluation by means of research output Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Aim of Ministry for Assessment Model for assessment based on indicators to Stimulate research and Allocate resources • The best researchers (by allocating money based on publications) • The best ideas (allocating money to the competition-based financing of projects) • Allocate money to special thematic areas Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
St.prp.nr.1, UFD, pg. 115: ”Financing of Research” 2003 New efforts: to use result indicators for academic/scientific publishing as a basis to budget the research at Universities and State Colleges. The Publications from 2004 will be included in the budgets for 2006 Main issues: • Provide better data on Academic Publishing • Take in consideration different practices – thus avoiding unfortunate effect on the publication pattern. • Divide in Quality levels to avoid reduction in quality of the publications pattern and avoid volume of low publications • Develop indicators for activities within dissemination Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Ministry of Education and Research wish to improve research results in the universities • Measure through indicators that say something of quality of results • Results will trigger resource allocation to the universities • 14% of total budget allocated based on research output indicators Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Result Indicators that have been chosen • Doctoral theses • EU funding • National Research Council Funding • Publications • These are quality indicators; all subject to peer review Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Institution receives an allocation from the ministry • The model is NOT recommended for use internally • The ministry stresses the need for creating internal models to reward / stimulate • Necessary to think complementarily in order to support particular subject areas Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Definition of an academic Publication The Publication must: • Present new insight/knowledge • Be in a form that make it possible to validate or useful in new research • Be in a language and have a distribution that can make the publication available for the researchers of whom it may be of interest • Be in a publication channel ( journal, series, publisher, website) with routines for Peer review. Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Publications • Peer reviewed articles • Academic monographs • Chapters / parts of anthologies • (Proceedings) • Only a few classes of publications used in assessment Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Functionality Required • Must be able to express : • Person belonging to one or more organisational unit • The output produced at one or more organisational units • from one year or a temporal interval • From one or several projects • And these in any combination Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Functionality Required 2 • Person must be linked to publication, organisational unit and project • Reference format • Vancouver, APA etc • Person must be linkable to two or more organisational units Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure Required • relational model as basis with dynamic role-based temporal links between base entities • Extended with elements of publication • Journal name, ISSN, shortname, acronym, pagefrom, pageto, volume, issue Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
The Whole Thing PROJECT ORGUNIT PERSON Contact Event Prize/Award Results Publication General Facility Skills Results Patent Particular Equipment CV Service Results Product Funding Programme Classification Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Secondary Base Entities: example:RESULT_PUBLICATION PROJECT ORGUNIT PERSON Result_Publication Can Express: (where DT-date/time) Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is author of) Publication X Orgunit O (DT1 - DT2) (is owner of IPR in) Publication X Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is employee of ) Orgunit O Person A (DT1 - DT2) (is project leader of) Project P Person A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit M Person A (DT1-DT2) (is member of) Orgunit N Orgunit M (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit O Orgunit N (DT1-DT2) (is part of) Orgunit O Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
National system for the four universities • Funded and owned by the universities • Central database • Based on CERIF (with extensions) • 300,000 records in 2006 • In production use for 1 year Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
A publications is divided in author and institutional parts within co-authoring Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
We find Academic Publications in the intersection between Publications Channel and Publication Form. Channel Eexample: scientific article in Nature orscientific monografi atAschehoug forlag Form Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Level 1 and Level 2 • At level 2 there are specified certain publication channels within all subjects.Level 2 are expressing the desirable direction for the publication pattern. • Level 1 is the ”normal” and includes all publishing according to the definition. Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Level 2: ca. 1/5 of the publications Level 1: ca. 4/5 of the publications Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Guidelines for nomination at level 2 In general the publication channel must be • Considered as leading within broader scientific community • Publish the most important publications for researchers from different countries Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Quality • Import of ISI records • Problem: person and organisational unit not connected • Routines and responsibility for quality assurance • Researchers • Organisational unit • Researcher as end-user validates records Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Bibliographical sources • ISI-indexes will cover 62 % of all journal articles. • Norart can cover further 32% of the articles by adjusting the application and by Nordic cooperation. • Bibsys could possible cover 70-80% of book publishing Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Structure of Presentation • Ministry Model for Assessing Research Output • Research Output – Publications • Requirements of a CRIS in this context • System Solution • Evaluation of Output • Ensuring Quality • Conclusion Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB
Quality • Using selected publication channels, not only publication volume, gives quality • Requirements of System • Cannot be done by a library system • Requires a flexible structured CRIS Anne Asserson Research Administration Department,UiB